"I hope not; we fix bad block issues for more effiency."

kinda....

They do not fix bad blocks physically....They have the ability to truncate bad cells within bad erase blocks(or flash blocks), @ the read/write block level(a portion of an erase block), so they do not have to throw away the whole erase block.

Others, eventually, got around to killing the whole erase block in dealing with the problem. This was a problem for NOR flash....as the flash blocks are very large....ie...60K

Prior that, the only other choice was to discard the memory using 100% uncontaminated memory...which is what Intel was doing and e.Digital was improvising on.

That which they did for NOR they do the same for NAND even though the erase blocks are proportioned much smaller....ie...4k

Thing is, regarding the physical memory problems, it's a problem that they all had to deal with and this data integrity issue is nonsense.

doni