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Figure 9-1 Sectors on an HDD

Solid-state drives come from the factory with each NAND chip storing

millions (hundreds of millions on really big drives) of 4096-byte storage

areas known as pages. A group of pages are combined into a block. The size

of a block varies, but 128 pages per block isn’t uncommon. Figure 9-2 shows

a simplified concept of how this looks.

Figure 9-2 SSD pages and blocks

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