Barefoot 3

Today OCZ is introducing the first SATA drive featuring a technology that may be the next big thing for enterprise SSDs. Referred to by OCZ as "Host Managed SSD" technology (HMS) and known elsewhere in the industry by the buzzword "Storage Intelligence", the general idea is to let the host computer know more about what's going on inside the SSD and to have more influence over how the SSD controller goes about its business. Standardization efforts have been underway for more than a year in the committees for SAS, SATA, and NVMe, but OCZ's implementation is a pre-standard design that may not be compatible with what is eventually ratified. To provide some degree of forwards compatibility, OCZ is releasing an open-source abstraction library to provide...