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


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