Page 2 - Ordering Information
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Product Specification February 2012 2 Order Number: 325968-001US L Ordering Information Contact your local Intel sales representative for ordering information. INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL PRODUCTS. NO LICENSE, EXPRESS OR IMPL...
Page 3 - Contents
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 3 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Contents 1.0 Overview ................................................................................................................... 5 2.0 Product Specifica...
Page 5 - Overview; Drive 520 Series (Intel
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 5 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 1.0 Overview This document describes the specifications and capabilities of the Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series (Intel ® SSD 520 Series) 1 . The Intel SSD 5...
Page 6 - Product Specifications; Capacity; performance based on the data pattern of the workload.; User Addressable Sectors; Compressible Performance
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Product Specification February 2012 6 Order Number: 325968-001US Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 2.0 Product Specifications 2.1 Capacity Notes: 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes; 1 sector = 512 bytes.LBA count shown represents t...
Page 7 - Incompressible Performance; Latency
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 7 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Notes: 1. Performance measured using Iometer with Queue Depth 32. Measurements are performed on 8 GB of Logical Block Address (LBA) range. 2. Performance measure...
Page 8 - Electrical Characteristics; Operating Voltage and Power Consumption
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Product Specification February 2012 8 Order Number: 325968-001US Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 2.3 Electrical Characteristics Notes: 1. Active power measured during execution of MobileMark* 2007 with SATA Link Power Man...
Page 9 - Product Regulatory Compliance; in; Product Regulatory Compliance Specifications
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 9 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 2.5 Product Regulatory Compliance The Intel SSD 520 Series meets or exceeds the regulatory or certification requirements in Table 7 . Table 7. Product Regulatory...
Page 10 - Reliability; requirements as specified in the JESD218 specification.; Hot Plug Support; system without hardware device detection.; Reliability Specifications
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Product Specification February 2012 10 Order Number: 325968-001US Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 2.6 Reliability The Intel SSD 520 Series meets or exceeds SSD endurance and data retention requirements as specified in the...
Page 11 - Mechanical Information; Figure 1
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 11 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 3.0 Mechanical Information Figure 1 shows the physical package information for the 7mm height 2.5-inch Intel SSD 520 Series. All dimensions are in millimeters. ...
Page 12 - Figure 2
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Product Specification February 2012 12 Order Number: 325968-001US Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Figure 2 shows the physical package information for the 9.5mm height 2.5-inch Intel SSD 520 Series. All dimensions are in m...
Page 13 - Pin and Signal Descriptions; Pin Locations; Connector Pin Signal Definitions; Layout of Signal and Power Segment Pins; Signal Segment S1
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 13 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 4.0 Pin and Signal Descriptions 4.1 Pin Locations Note: 2.5-inch connector supports in-built latching capability. 4.2 Signal Descriptions 4.2.1 Connector Pin Si...
Page 14 - Power Pin Signal Definitions; Serial ATA Power Pin Definitions
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Product Specification February 2012 14 Order Number: 325968-001US Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 4.2.2 Power Pin Signal Definitions Notes: 1. All pins are in a single row, with a 1.27 mm (0.050-inch) pitch. 2. Pins P1, P...
Page 15 - Supported Command Sets; ATA General Feature Command Set; Power Management; the SET FEATURES command.
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 15 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 5.0 Supported Command Sets The Intel SSD 520 Series supports all mandatory Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) and Serial ATA (SATA) commands defined in the AC...
Page 16 - Security Mode Feature Set
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Product Specification February 2012 16 Order Number: 325968-001US Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 5.3 Security Mode Feature Set The Intel SSD 520 Series supports the Security Mode command set, which consists of: • SECURIT...
Page 17 - lists the SMART attributes supported by the Intel SSD 520 Series; SMART Attributes
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 17 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 5.4.1 SMART Attributes Table 11 lists the SMART attributes supported by the Intel SSD 520 Series; Table 12 on page 19 lists the corresponding status flags and t...
Page 19 - defines the SMART Attribute status flags.; SMART Logs; appropriate commands.; Device Statistics; Device Statistics log as defined in the ATA specification.; SMART Attribute Status Flags; Device Statistics Log
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 19 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Table 12 defines the SMART Attribute status flags. 5.4.2 SMART Logs The Intel SSD 520 Series implements the following Log Addresses: 00h, 02h, 03h, 06h, and 07h...
Page 20 - manipulate two SMART Logs:; Data Set Management Command Set; • DATA SET MANAGEMENT; Host Protected Area Command Set
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Product Specification February 2012 20 Order Number: 325968-001US Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 5.6 SMART Command Transport (SCT) With SMART Command Transport (SCT), a host can send commands and data to an SSD and recei...
Page 21 - General Purpose Log Command Set; Software Settings Preservation; preservation of software settings.
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 21 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 5.10 General Purpose Log Command Set The Intel SSD 520 Series supports the General Purpose Log command set, which consists of: • READ LOG EXT• WRITE LOG EXT• RE...
Page 22 - Certifications and Declarations; Device Certifications and Declarations
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Product Specification February 2012 22 Order Number: 325968-001US Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 6.0 Certifications and Declarations Table 14 describes the Device Certifications supported by the Intel SSD 520 Series. Tab...
Page 23 - References; defines the terms and acronyms used in this document.; Standards References; Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 23 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 7.0 References Table 15 identifies the standards information referenced in this document. 8.0 Terms and Acronyms Table 16 defines the terms and acronyms used in...
Page 24 - Revision History; Glossary of Terms and Acronyms (Continued)
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Product Specification February 2012 24 Order Number: 325968-001US Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series 9.0 Revision History NCQ Native Command Queuing NOP No Operation PIO Programmed Input/Output RDT Reliability Demonstration ...
Page 25 - Appendix A IDENTIFY DEVICE Command Data; Returned Sector Data
Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series February 2012 Product Specification Order Number: 325968-001US 25 Intel ® Solid-State Drive 520 Series Appendix A IDENTIFY DEVICE Command Data Table 17 details the sector data returned after issuing an IDENTIFY DEVICE command. Table 17. Returned Sector Data Word ...