Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for handling out of order reporting in a storage device, the data storage system comprising: a host (290) operable to request an ordered data set, wherein the ordered data set includes: a first output and a second output, and wherein the first output precedes the second output in the ordered data set; a storage medium (150) maintaining the ordered data set; a data processing circuit (100) operable to access the ordered data set from the storage medium, and to process a first processing input corresponding to the first output and a second processing input corresponding to the second output to yield the first output and the second output, wherein the second output is available before the first output; and wherein the host (290) is further operable to receive the second output before the first output.