When moving a file within one drive, the file is not copied-and-deleted. The table that refers to the files is just updated. And as far as I know, that is not the case on 2 drives on an HDD. But SSDs are different, there is no physical space dedicated to each drive. (source)
So my question is what happens when a file is moved from one drive to another on the same SSD, are the bytes copied and the original deleted, or is some table updated, thereby thrashing the SSD less?
There’s already a duplicate question here. But both answers claim:
each partition will have it’s own physical area of the drive to itself
and
Partitioning a hard drive actually designates physical regions for each partition. [and in a comment:] SSD is still a hard drive, it just doesn’t have a disk.
As far as I know that’s wrong. See here.
So will someone who knows more about SSDs please tell me if they are correct in their assessment despite their mistake?