One thing that puzzles me about data storage, is how slow the average USB thumb drive is. When you consider that thumb drives and SSDs use the same solid-state technology, why are so many thumb drives ...

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So I get some of the basic differences between a USB flash drive's controller and an SSD controller, like mentioned here https://superuser.com/questions/919...l ...