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* consists of eraseblocks rather than [[Cluster (file system)|clusters]] like in [[hard drives]].

* eraseblocks are large (32KiB, 128KiB) compared to hard drive's sector size (512 to 1024{{fact}} bytes).

* maintains three main operations - read from eraseblock, write to eraseblock, and erase eraseblock.

* bad eraseblocks are not hidden and should be dealt with in software.