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Re: Official Imagio HSPL Speculation and Q/A Thread

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Originally Posted by maisonpulaski View Post
Could I get a quick explanation of what the term "bad block" means?
Memory is allocated into blocks, each block is basically a space to store information. Sometimes you get a bad block that can not be written to or read from. Same thing happens on hard drives.