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		throw0101b on Nov 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half l... > (and the lower level equivalents in SATA, NVMe etc.)? This is not a technical problem that needs yet another SATA/SAS/etc command to be standardized. It's a 'social' problem that there's no real incentives for firmware writers to tell the truth 100% of the time. The best you can hope for is if you buy a fancy-pants enterprise storage solution with compatibility lists and approved firmware versions.

lxgr on Nov 22, 2023 [–]

Well said.

Not even OS vendors are immune to the temptations of higher performance through somewhat relaxed interpretation of interfaces: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Sy...

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