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edeion | 4 years ago

If I recall correctly, high end hard drives used a protocol called SCSI in the 90s that was mostly embedded in hardware.

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minedwiz|4 years ago

Somewhat related, SSDs run an entire microcontroller on-board to translate from I/O requests from the OS to proper use of the flash hardware.

vlovich123|4 years ago

If I recall correctly that’s not the case on Apple platforms. They do the translation themselves across raw NAND.