On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 5:30 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I generally find that disk sectors are 4k these days but 512 bytes on
a USB disk. I don't know what an NVMe SSD presents as its
blocksize. It might well be that Evan's USB thingee preserves the
blocksize of the SSD. I don't know.
For a native (ie, a sealed) USB stick I think you're right.
But these thingees are interfaces between USB3 and conventional SSDs and HDDs.
I have a cable/adapter between a SATA SDD drive and USB3, with essentially (from what I understand) the same electronics as one would find in an external drive enclosure with power supplied by the USB.
I haven't tested that my M.2-to-USB gadget works the same way but I have no reason yet to believe that it won't.