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Zero = trim

Posted Aug 27, 2009 17:57 UTC (Thu) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: Zero = trim by dmag
Parent article: The trouble with discard

"but nowadays is done in software (SD cards)."

No. SD cards have their flash translation layer on the card in hardware.

What you're thinking of is CF cards have a whole ATA interface on the card too ( the actual interface is closely related to PCI ).

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