From my experience with flash, uC operating current is at least an order of magnitude below flash write current. If you are going for seriously low power in (for example) a uC logging values from a sensor, the thing to do is buffer readings in memory until memory is full and then in one burst, commit to flash. (rinse repeat) Any write smaller than the blocksize is extremely wasteful, and simply preparing the flash for write burns a lot of juice too.
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From my experience with flash, uC operating current is at least an order of magnitude below flash write current. If you are going for seriously low power in (for example) a uC logging values from a sensor, the thing to do is buffer readings in memory until memory is full and then in one burst, commit to flash. (rinse repeat) Any write smaller than the blocksize is extremely wasteful, and simply preparing the flash for write burns a lot of juice too.