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Sandforce SSDs did implement compression, this allowed them to write and read less to the flash boosting performance. But the SSD still reported the full uncompressed size to the OS. This is because the abstraction that storage devices present to the OS is block and the device can't present a varying amount of total blocks on the device depending on the data written to the drive.



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