If you get any response from disk vendors I&#x27;d be very interested to hear about it and be somehow involved. I&#x27;ve been asking them similar things for some time and got no response beyond a &quot;we&#x27;ll take a look&quot; and never getting a reply back.<p>One such request that is also mentioned in your article is to get more granular responses in the IO responses, in a SAS disk you can get correctable errors that do not hamper the behavior but will get you information on the internal status and actions of the disks. SATA has a problem with this since any IO Error in SATA will cancel all outstanding IOs. Though I think that there are device logs and such now that can be implemented to provide some semblance of a similar result.