SATA 3.4 Standard Released: Hard Drives Healthy

SATA-IO today announced the release of the latest SATA Revision 3.4 standard specification. Focused on the introduction of equipment status monitoring, clean-up task execution and other features, has minimal impact on performance.

SATA-IO stated that the storage industry has always wanted better performance, reliability, and compatibility. For this reason, the SATA 3.4 standard has added several new features to meet the needs, including:

1, Durable / Ordered Write Notification (Durable / Ordered Write Notification)

Writes specific hard-coded data to the hard disk with minimal impact on daily operations.

2, Device Temperature Monitoring (Device Temperature Monitoring)

Out-of-band data (ODB) communication utilizes the SFF-8690 standard to dynamically monitor the status of SATA devices, such as temperature, without affecting day-to-day operations.

3, Device Sleep Signal Timing (Device Sleep Signal Timing)

Add more definitions to enhance compatibility between different vendors.

4, Other corrections and clarifications regarding the SATA standard

The SATA 3.0 standard was released on May 26th, 2009, namely SATA 6Gbps, upgraded to SATA 3.1 in July 2011, upgraded to SATA 3.2 in August 2013, upgraded to SATA 3.3 in February 2016, and has been adding new features. , Optimize device support.

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