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SanDisk ® SSD U100 Product Manual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 August 2011 The content of this d ocument is confidential & subj ect to change with out notice Document No. 8 0- 11 -XXXXX SanDisk Corporat ion Corporate Headquar ters • 601 McCarthy Blvd. • Milpitas, CA 95035 Phone (408) 801- 1000 • Fax (408) 80 1 -8657 www.sandisk.com[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 2 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX SanDisk Corporation general policy does not recomme nd the use of its products in life supp ort applications wherein a failure or malfunction of the p roduct may d irectly threaten life or injury. Withou t limitation to the foregoing[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 3 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX Re vision History Revision Description Date 0.90 Fix 32GB sequential writ e (SATA-II) value. Update power consumptio n numbers with final product configurat ion. Add product weight for each form -factor. Changed Ident[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 4 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX T able of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ .............................. 8 1.1 G ENERAL D ESCRIPTION ..........................................[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 5 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 5.7 A COUSTICS .................................................................................................................................... 30 5.8 EMI/RFI C OMPLIANCE ..........................................................[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 6 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX T able of Figures F IGURE 1- 1: S AN D ISK SSD U1 00 B LOCK D IAGRAM ................................ .................................................................. 8 F IGURE 1- 2: S AN D ISK SSD U100 N C ACHE ™ TECHNOL[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 7 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX T able of T ables T ABLE 1- 1: S AN D ISK SSD U100 P OWER C LASSES ................................................................................................... 16 T ABLE 2- 1: S AN D ISK SSD U100 C APACITY S PECIFICATI[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 8 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 1. Intr od uction 1.1 General Descripti on The SanDisk® SSD U100 builds on the momentum of three generations o f SSD P-Series and the overall trend in the market towards smaller, thinner computing machines that enable mo bility, con[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 9 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX The SanDisk SSD U100 employs a low power archite cture that significantly redu ces the power consumed by the device in low power modes - allowing the users’ to extend the charge cycles of the battery – highly-desir ed by mobilit [...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 10 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 1.2 Key Features High-capacity, ultra-small form factor supporting unformatted capacities 1 of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256 GB 2 : Half- Slim SATA 2.5” standard c onnector, complies to J EDEC-297 standard Stand[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 11 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX Advanced Flash Manageme nt: nCache™ – Non Volatile Write Cach e Support for TRIM Dynamic & Static Wear-lev eling Bad Block Management Background Garbage Collec tion Supp ort fo r Perfor mance thro[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 12 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 1.3 Functional Descr iption The SSD U 100 contain s a high -level, intellige nt storage sub system. This intelligent (microcontroller) subsyste m provides many capabilities not found in other types of memory devices . These capabili[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 13 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 1.4 Advanced Flas h Management 1.4.1 Non -Volatile Write Cache The fourth generation of modular SSD, the SSD U100 supp orts a unique feature to impro ve burst and sustained random write perfor mance and ensur e very positive user ex[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 14 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 1.4.2 Defect and Error Management SSD U100 contains a sophisticated defect and error management system that is similar to the systems fo und in magnetic disk drives, and in many cases, offers enhancemen ts. If necessary, the SSD dev[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 15 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 1.5 Advanced Low Po wer Management The SanDisk SSD U100 employs advanced low power architecture that reduces power consumption in low power mo des. In particular, the SSD U100 supports the following SATA low power modes: 1.5.1 Slumb[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 16 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 1.7 Power classes The SanDisk SSD U100 targeted towards convergence market spa ce characteri zed by stringent power budget originating from the o bjecti ve to either extend battery charge cycle o r due to power ICs limitation. In or[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 17 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 2. General Pr oduct Specifications 2.1 Interface The SSD U100 interface compli es with the Serial ATA standard published by ANSI. The device complies with the SATA 6 Gb/s, Revision 3.0 specifications and supports ATA Command Set ACS[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 18 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 2.3 Performance 11 2.3.1 Multi-level cell (MLC) Performance Table 2-2: SanDisk SSD U100 (MLC) Perfor mance 11 Measured using IOME TER 2006.07.27 on Intel® Core™ i7 -2600 Proces sor based Wind ows7™ PC , secondary drive con [...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 19 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 2.4 Endurance 2.4.1 Multi-level cell (MLC) Endurance Table 2-3: SanDi sk SSD U100 (MLC) Endur ance 14 LDE is calculated based on typical workload based on Windows OS. LDE is a direct function of user workload and access pattern.[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 20 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 3. P o w er Charact eristics 3.1 Supply Voltage Table 3-1: San Disk SSD U100 Supply Voltage 3.2 Graceful Power-off Requirements By default, most OS’s operate with Host Write Cache ’enabled,’ which more accurately means the[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 21 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 3.3 Average Powe r Consumption Average power co nsumpti on is defin ed as the blended read/write/idle power used by the SSD U100 while it is operating with a ty pical OS installed. The power co nsumption is being reco rded while run[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 22 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 3.4 Active Power Cons umption Active power consumption is measured while the U100 is continuously processing sequential read and write commands (tested separately) with a transfer size of 256 sectors per command (128KB). M easure me[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 23 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 3.5 Low Power Mode C onsumption Low power mode consumption is defin ed as the mode where the SSD U100 has entered Slumber mode (SATA PHY state) and DPD M ( SSD U100 specific ‘deep p ower down m ode’ that is entered after a peri [...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 24 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 4. Ph y sical Specific ation 4.1 Half-Slim SATA Form Fac tor Complies with SFF-8 156/ MO -297 standards Parameter Specificatio ns Width 54 mm Length 39 mm Thickness (ma x) 3.08mm (8- 64 GB), 2.8 8mm (128-2 56GB), Connector 4.00mm Ty[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 25 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 4.1.2 Half-Slim SATA 128GB- 256 GB ca pacity[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 26 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 4.2 mSATA Form Fac tor Complies with MO-300A Standard Parameter Specificatio ns Width 30 mm Length 50.95mm Thickness (ma x) 3.4mm (8- 64 G B), 3.2mm ( 128 -256GB) Typical Weight 5.2g (8GB), 5.7g (16GB), 6. 7g (32-64GB), 6. 8g (128- [...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 27 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 4.2.2 mSATA 128GB-256GB capacity Figure 4-5 : mS ATA 128-256GB Top View Figure 4-6 : mS ATA 128-256GB Side View[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 28 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 4.3 mSATA Mini Form Factor Complies with MO-300B Standard Parameter Specificatio ns Width 30 mm Length 26.80mm Thickness (ma x) 2.2mm (8GB), 3. 2mm ( 16 - 128 GB) Typical Weight 3.0g (8GB), 3.3g ( 16 GB), 3.4g ( 32 GB), 3. 5g (64-12[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 29 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 5. En vir onmental S pecifications 5.1 Temperature Parameter Specifications Operational 0°C to 70°C Storage -55°C to 85°C Maximum temp erature gradie nt 1°C per minut e Table 5-1: SanDisk SSD U100 Temperatu re Specification[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 30 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 5.6 Electrostatic Dis charge (ESD) The SanDisk SSD U1 00 ’s are ESD tested per IEC 61000-4-2 Standard. Parameter Test Voltage Contact 2kV, 4kV Air 4kV, 8kV Table 5-6: SanDisk SSD U100 ESD Specification 5.7 Acoustics The SSD U1[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 31 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 5. 10 Regulations The SanDisk SSD U1 00 is certified with the f ollowing certificati ons: Standard CE UL (with file num ber) CSA (or ULc) CE WEEE TUV/SEMKO/UL /etc. MIC (Korea) ( with certification nu mber) BSMI (Taiwan) (with appli[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 32 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 6. Reliability Charact eristics 6.1 Error Rate Non-recoverable error rate is 1 error per 10 16 bits read. 6.2 MTTF (Mean-Time - To -Failure) The reliability figure of merit most often used for ele ctronic equipment i s Mean-Time- To[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 33 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 7. Int erface 7.1 Supported Sta ndards The SSD U100 complies with the following standards: SATA 6Gb/s, Revision 3.0 ATA Command Set ACS-2 7.2 Pin Assignments – Half-Slim SATA co nnector SIGNAL Connector P inout: Pin # Sign[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 34 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 7.3 Pin Assignments – mSATA Pin # Assignment Description Pin # Assignment Description 1 No Connect 2 +3.3V 3.3V Source 3 No Connect 4 GND Return Current Path 5 No Connect 6 No Connect 7 No Connect 8 No Connect 9 GND Return Current[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 35 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 8. Supported A T A Commands The following table defines some of the common ATA commands supported by the SSD U100 . Specifics of each ATA command’s o peration can be found in the ATA/ATAPI Command Set ACS-2 document. Command Name [...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 36 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX Read Sectors M 20h Read Sectors Ext O 24h Read Sectors w/o Retry Obs 21h Read Verify Sectors M 40h Read Verify Sectors Ext O 42h Read Verify Sectors w/o Ret ry Obs 41h Recalibrate Obs 1Xh Sanitize O B4h Sanitize sub - commands: Sani[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 37 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX Set Max Add ress O F9h Security Extension sub - commands: Set Max Set P assword 01h Set Max Lock 02h Set Max Unloc k 03h Set Max Freeze L ock 04h Set Max Set P assword DMA 05h Set Max Unloc k DMA 06h Set Max Add ress Ext O 37h Set M[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 38 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX Write Log Ext O 3Fh Write Multi ple M C5h Write Multi ple Ext O 39h Write Sectors M 30h Write Sectors Ext O 34h Write Sectors w/o Retry Obs 31h Write Uncorrecta ble Ext O 45h Pseudo-UECC wit h Logging 55h M = Mandatory. O = Optional[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 39 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 8.1 Identify Dat a The following table d efines the specifi cs of the Identify Data r eturned by the SSD U100. Word Address Default Value Total Bytes Data Field Type I nformation 0 0040h 2 ATA General c onfiguration: bit-si gnifican[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 40 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX Word Address Default Value Total Bytes Data Field Type I nformation 68 0078h 2 Minimu m PIO transfer with IORDY flow control 69 5200h 2 ACS2 Additi onal Supported – Deter ministic Trim 70 -74 0000h 10 Reserved 75 001Fh 2 Queue Dep[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 41 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX Word Address Default Value Total Bytes Data Field Type I nformation 108- 111 5001B440XX XXXXXXh 8 WWN 112- 115 0000h 8 Reserved 116 0000h 2 Reserved fo r TLC 117- 118 0000h 4 Logical Secto r Size 119 40 1 4h 2 Command/Featu re Sets [...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 42 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX Word Address Default Value Total Bytes Data Field Type I nformation 234 0008h 2 Min Sector Coun t for Downloa d Microcode Mode 3 235 001 0h 2 Max Sector Count for Downloa d Microcode Mode 3 236- 254 0000h 38 Reserved fo r CE-ATA 255[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 43 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 8.2 Log Pages The following table defines the list of supported Log Pages accessible through SMART Write Log, SMART Read Log, Read Log Ext and Writ e Log Ext commands. Log Address Total Pages Log Address Descri ption 0x00 1 General [...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 44 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 9. Ord eri ng information 9.1 SanDisk SSD U100 MLC Products Ord ering Information SDSA5 X K - CCC G - YYYY SD SanDisk SA SATA 5 Generation: 4 X Form factor: A – Half 1.8" form factor, Sta ndard SATA conne ctor D – mSATA for[...]
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SanDisk SSD U100 Product Man ual (Preliminary) Rev 0.90 © 2011 SanDisk® Corpo ration 45 Document No . 80- 11 -XXXXX 10 . Contact info rmation USA Tel: +1- 408 -470-4 440 Fax: +1- 408 -470-4 470 OEMinfo@sandisk.c om China Tel: +86-755-8348 -5218 Fax: +86-755-8348 -5418 OEMChina@sandisk.c om Taiwan Tel: +886-2-2515- 2522 Fax: +886-2-2515- 2295 OEMA[...]