Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: > Ah, an old timer - I forgot that for a second there
Both you guys are 'young whipper_snappers.....' > Eventually I gave up trying to clarify that part, but sometimes (like > now) the old habit comes back Both of you have 'fuzzified' the key terms:: "Random vs Sequential" [1,2]. In SSD memory it's a hybrid, referred to as block access; so the issue is still with us, just morphed. hth, James [1] http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8150/~/difference-between-sequential-and-random-access-operations [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_access_memory