If you get any response from disk vendors I'd be very interested to hear about it and be somehow involved. I've been asking them similar things for some time an

If you get any response from disk vendors I'd be very interested to hear about it and be somehow involved. I've been asking them similar things for some time and got no response beyond a "we'll take a look" and never getting a reply back. 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.