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I suppose it depends - although it's pretty much the worst case for write amplification, 1-4 bytes leading to a 4k block erase and reprogram.



True, but if you’re just listening and not for some reason updating your whole library, we’re talking about one block write every three minutes or so. That’s negligible compared to everything else the system is doing.




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