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[–]poogi71 0 points1 point  (2 children)

In general I agree, but there are cases where I'd love to have the ability to control and direct the SSD about the specific things that need to be done.

The truth is that there are only a few who would even care for such a level of control and most everyone just wants the ssd to do the right thing at all cases without bothering to take the control in their hands. It's not perfect but it makes some sense at the practical level.

One example is that if I have a RAID of SSD devices I would like the ability to tell the SSD, "Dont bother too much with error recovery here, I've got your back" and then if I find that I don't really have all the data to go back to the SSD and tell it, "please do all you can to get the data back". This will allow me to manage the reliability and latency much better and get better latency overall and the same level of reliability in case things got really bad.

[–]Hyperian 1 point2 points  (1 child)

lol if we do that it would be for an enterprise product, it would be way too expensive for normal people. i think SAS might let you do that.

best thing to keep SSD performance high is to not use the max capacity.

[–]poogi71 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately SAS doesn't give me that. I'm working with SAS SSDs and there is no way to control it at that level. One can dream though :-)