Re: zero filling a storage device (was: dd and mbr)

In reply to: Pete Wright : "Re: zero filling a storage device (was: dd and mbr)"
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From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf_at_riseup.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 08:11:10 UTC

On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:53:07 -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
>On 1/14/22 09:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> IIRC SSDs provide more disk space under the hood, than accessible by
>> a user.
>
>The industry term is Over-Provisioning:
>https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/global.semi.static/S190311-SAMSUNG-Memory-Over-Provisioning-White-paper.pdf
>https://docs.aerospike.com/operations/plan/ssd/ssd_op

Thank you :).
Ralf