Reports drive health status without disrupting the I/O data
flow over both PCIe and SMBus
Expanded LBA format support provides flexibility to host
software pass metadata and protection information along
with payload data
Enable drive-level security for data at rest
Improves performance by removing the need for data
alignment at the host with concurrent TRIM operations
Makes a wide range of stored data accessible and includes
intelligent error tracking and logging increasing the reliability
of finding and mitigating issues, and it supports error tracking
and logging to increase the reliability of finding and mitigating
issues
Enhances runtime provisioning and storage management
Overprovisioning of drives with single, smaller namespaces
can improve endurance and random write performance
Improves customer experiences by helping ensure device
operate as expected. The host system can request the storage
device (SSD) to perform tests to ensure it is functioning
properly
