Monday, June 25th 2018
SATA-IO Expands Supported Features in Revision 3.4 Specification
The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), the storage industry consortium dedicated to sustaining the quality, integrity and dissemination of the Serial ATA (SATA ) technology, announced the publication of the SATA Revision 3.4 Specification. The newest SATA specification introduces features that enable monitoring of device conditions and execution of housekeeping tasks, both with minimal impact on performance.
The storage market continues to demand improvements in performance, reliability and compatibility. The industry standard group has added new features to the specification revision 3.4 so that SATA devices may offer improvements in these areas, including:
The storage market continues to demand improvements in performance, reliability and compatibility. The industry standard group has added new features to the specification revision 3.4 so that SATA devices may offer improvements in these areas, including:
Durable /Ordered Write Notification: enables writing selected critical cache data to the media, minimizing impact on normal operations.
Device Temperature Monitoring: allows for active monitoring of SATA device temperature and other conditions without impacting normal operation by utilizing the SFF-8609 standard for out of band (OOB) communications.
Device Sleep Signal Timing: provides additional definition to enhance compatibility between manufacturers' implementations.
In addition, the latest revision of the specification includes corrections and clarifications as part of ongoing improvements to the SATA specification.
"SATA remains the highest volume storage interface in the industry and SATA-IO continues to improve the specification for the benefit of SATA developers and users," said Jim Hatfield, SATA-IO president. "The features provided in revision 3.4 deliver the improvements in SATA's performance, reliability and compatibility that our members and the industry expect."
The storage market continues to demand improvements in performance, reliability and compatibility. The industry standard group has added new features to the specification revision 3.4 so that SATA devices may offer improvements in these areas, including:
- Durable /Ordered Write Notification: enables writing selected critical cache data to the media, minimizing impact on normal operations.
- Device Temperature Monitoring: allows for active monitoring of SATA device temperature and other conditions without impacting normal operation by utilizing the SFF-8609 standard for out of band (OOB) communications.
- Device Sleep Signal Timing: provides additional definition to enhance compatibility between manufacturers' implementations.
Durable /Ordered Write Notification: enables writing selected critical cache data to the media, minimizing impact on normal operations.
Device Temperature Monitoring: allows for active monitoring of SATA device temperature and other conditions without impacting normal operation by utilizing the SFF-8609 standard for out of band (OOB) communications.
Device Sleep Signal Timing: provides additional definition to enhance compatibility between manufacturers' implementations.
In addition, the latest revision of the specification includes corrections and clarifications as part of ongoing improvements to the SATA specification.
"SATA remains the highest volume storage interface in the industry and SATA-IO continues to improve the specification for the benefit of SATA developers and users," said Jim Hatfield, SATA-IO president. "The features provided in revision 3.4 deliver the improvements in SATA's performance, reliability and compatibility that our members and the industry expect."
15 Comments on SATA-IO Expands Supported Features in Revision 3.4 Specification
(where are all the opinionated people screaming at each other?...oh, no mention of Intel, AMD or NVidia, that'll do it)
IntelSATA-IO again on AMD's coat tails, following them!This news proves Intel is out of control and lost as a company.
Seriously, that is the troll garbage on so many of those other articles.
Personally I look forward for NVMe 2.0 with 4x times the bandwidth and double the PCIe lanes (PCIe 4.0 and 5.0). Hopefull in the near future, we can finally see the RAM speeds coming to flash also.