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Specifications for SAFD 18P June 26 th , 2013 Version 1.4 Apacer Technology Inc. 4th Fl., 75 Hsin Tai Wu Rd., Sec.1, Xizhi, New Taipei City, Taiwan 221 Tel: +886-2-2698-2888 Fax: +886-2-2698-2889 www.apacer.com

© 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.4 Features: /circle6 Standard Serial ATA Interface – Serial ATA Revision 2.6 – SATA 3.0 Gbps – ATA-compatible command set /circle6 Capacities – 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 GB /circle6 Performance* – Burst read/write: 300 MB/sec – Sustained read: up to 260 MB/sec – Sustained write: up to 215 MB/sec /circle6 Intelligent endurance design – Built-in hardware ECC, enabling up to 16/24 bit correction per 1024 bytes – Static wear-leveling scheme together with dynamical block allocation to significantly increase the lifetime of a flash device and optimize the disk performance – Flash bad-block management – Power Failure Management – ATA Secure Erase – TRIM /circle6 NAND Flash Type: SLC /circle6 Temperature ranges – Operating: Standard: 0° C to 70° C (32 ~ 158° F) Extended: -40° C to 85° C (-40° ~ 185° F) – Storage: -40° C to 100° C (-40° ~ 212° F) /circle6 Supply voltage – 3.3V & 5V /circle6 Power consumption (typical)* – Active mode: 978 mA – Idle mode: 303 mA /circle6 Form factor – 1.8 inch (78.5 x 54 x 5, unit: mm) /circle6 Connector – 7-pin SATA male connector – 9-pin SATA power connector /circle6 Shock & Vibration** – Shock: 1500 G – Vibration: 15 G /circle6 MTBF > 2,000,000 hours /circle6 RoHS compliant *Varies from capacities. The values addressed for performance and power consumption are typical and may vary depending on settings and platforms. **Non-operating

1.1 Introduction

Apacer’s Serial ATA Flash Drive (SAFD) is a solid-s tate disk (SSD) drive that contains a controller, e mbedded firmware, and flash media along with a male connect or. Using NAND flash memory devices, the drive transfers data between the host and the storage dev ices at a radical high speed, making it a great par tner for embedded systems and servers. SAFD 18P drive is designed with a single-chip contr oller, offering capacities of up to 128 gigabytes a nd providing full support for the SATA 3.0 Gbps high-s peed interface standard. It can operate at sustaine d access rates of up to higher than 260 megabytes per second, providing an ideal solution for industrial applications. In addition, SAFD 18P adopts the Apacer-specific st atic wear-leveling scheme to allow uniform use of a ll storage blocks, ensuring that the lifetime of a fla sh media can be significantly increased and the dis k ATA/ATAPI specifications and uses the standard SMAR T command B0h to read data from the drive. This feature protects the user from unscheduled downtime by monitoring and storing critical drive performance.

1.2 Functional Block Diagram

SAFD 18P drive includes a single-chip SATA Controll er and the flash media, as well as the SATA standar d interface. The controller integrates the flash mana gement unit with the controller itself to support m ulti-channel, multi-bank flash arrays. Figure 1-1 shows the functional block diagram. Figure 1-1 Apacer SAFD 18P block diagram

1.3 ATA Mode Support

SAFD 18P provides ATA mode support as follows: /circle6 Up to PIO mode-4 /circle6 Up to Multiword DMA mode-2 /circle6 Up to UDMA mode-4

1.4 Capacity Specification

Capacity specification of SAFD 18P product family i s available as shown in Table 1-1. It lists the spe cific capacity, the default numbers of logical cylinders and heads, and the number of logical sectors per tr ack for each product line. Table 1-1 Capacity specification Capacity Total Bytes* Cylinders Heads Sectors Max LBA**

8 GB 7,012,196,352 13,587 16 63 13,695,696

16 GB 16,013,942,784 16383 16 63 31,277,232

32 GB 32,017,047,552 16,383 16 63 62,533,296

64 GB 64,023,257,088 16383 16 63 125,045,44

128 GB 128,035,676,10 16383 16 63 250,069,60

*Display of total bytes varies from file systems. Cylinders, heads or sectors are not applicable for these capacities. Only LBA addressing applies. *Notes: 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes; 1 sector = 512 bytes. LBA count addressed in the table above indicates total user storage capacity and will remain the same throughout the lifespan of the device. However, the total usable capacity of the SSD is most likely to be less than the total physical capacity because a small portion of the capacity is reserved for device maintenance usages.

1.5 Performance

Performance of SAFD 18P is shown in Table 1-2. Table 1-2 Performance specifications Capacity Performance 8 GB 16 GB 32 GB 64 GB 128 GB Sustained Read (MB/s) 255 260 260 260 245 Sustained Write (MB/s) 100 205 190 215 165 Note: Performances vary from flash configurations and host system configurations. Read/write performance is measured using CrystalDiskMark under Windows XP operating sytem.

1.6 Pin Assignments

Table 1-3 describes SAFD 18P signal segment, and Table1-4, its power segment. Figure 1-2 Micro-SATA Connectors Table 1-3 Signal segment Table 1-4 Power segment Name Type Description Pin Type Signal/Description S1 GND P1 V33 3.3 V Power S2 RxP + Differential Receive Signal P2 V33 3.3 V Power S3 RxN - Differential Receive Signal P3 GND S4 GND P4 GND S5 TxN - Differential Transmit Signal P5 V5 5 V Power S6 TxP + Differential Transmit Signal P6 V5 5 V Power S7 GND P7 GND Reserved P8 Optional NC P9 Optional NC Signal Segment Pin S1 Power Segment Pin P1

© 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.4 Figure 1-3 SATA Cable/Connector Connection Diagram The connector on the left represents the Host with TX/RX differential pairs connected to a cable. The connector on the right shows the Device with TX/RX differential pairs also connected to the cable. Not ice also the ground path connecting the shielding of the cable to the Cable Receptacle.

2.1 Command Set

Table 2-1 summarizes the ATA commands supported by SAFD 18P-M. Table 2-1 Command set Command Code Check-Power-Mode E5H Execute-Drive-Diagnostic 90H Flush-Cache E7H Identify-Drive ECH Idle E3H Idle-Immediate E1H Initialize-Drive-Parameters 91H Read-DMA C8H or C9H Read-Multiple C4H Read-Sector(s) 20H or 21H Read-Verify-Sector(s) 40H or 41H Recalibrate 10H Security-Disable-Password F6H Security-Erase-Prepare F3H Security-Erase-Unit F4H Security-Freeze-Lock F5H Security-Set-Password F1H Security-Unlock F2H Seek 7XH Set-Features EFH Set-Multiple-Mode C6H Sleep E6H SMART B0H Standby E2H Standby-lmmediate E0H Write-DMA CAH Write-Multiple C5H Write-Sector(s) 30H

© 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.4 system that provides indicators of drive health as well as potential disk problems. It serves as a war ning for users from unscheduled downtime by monitoring and d isplaying critical drive information. Ideally, this should product development reference. Apacer devices use the standard SMART command B0h t o read data out from the drive to activate our initial bad block count, total later bad block coun t, maximum erase count, average erase count, power on status to the host before the device reaches in critical condition. Note: attribute IDs may vary from product models due to various solution design and supporting capabil ities.

3.1 Error Correction/Detection

SAFD 18P implements hardware ECC scheme based on th e BCH algorithm which can detect and correct up to 16 bits or 24 bits error in 1024 bytes.

3.2 Flash Block Management

Current production technology is unable to guarante e total reliability of NAND flash memory array. Whe n a flash memory device leaves factory, it comes with a minimal number of initial bad blocks during produc tion or out-of-factory as there is no currently known techn ology that produce flash chips free of bad blocks. In addition, bad blocks may develop during program/erase cycles. When host performs program/erase command on a block, bad block may appear in Status Register. Sin ce bad blocks are inevitable, the solution is to ke ep them reduce invalidity or error. Once bad blocks are det ected, data in those blocks will be transferred to free blocks and error will be corrected by designated algorithms.

3.3 Wear Leveling

Flash memory devices differ from Hard Disk Drives ( HDDs) in terms of how blocks are utilized. For HDDs , when a change is made to stored data, like erase or update, the controller mechanism on HDDs will perf orm overwrites on blocks. Unlike HDDs, flash blocks can not be overwritten and each P/E cycle wears down th e lifespan of blocks gradually. Repeatedly program/er ase cycles performed on the same memory cells will eventually cause some blocks to age faster than oth ers. This would bring flash storages to their end o f service term sooner. Wear leveling is an important mechanis m that level out the wearing of blocks so that the wearing-down of blocks can be almost evenly distrib uted. This will increase the lifespan of SSDs. Comm only used wear leveling types are Static and Dynamic.

3.4 Power Failure Management

Power Failure Management plays a crucial role when experiencing unstable power supply. Power disruptio n may occur when users are storing data into the SSD. In this urgent situation, the controller would run multiple write-to-flash cycles to store the metadata for lat er block rebuilding. This urgent operation requires about several milliseconds to get it done. At the next po wer up, the firmware will perform a status tracking to retrieve the mapping table and resume previously programmed NAND blocks to check if there is any incompleteness of transmission. Note: The controller unit of this product model is designed with a DRAM as a write cache for improved performance and data efficiency. Though unlikely to happen in most cases, the data cached in the volatile DRAM might b e potentially affected if a sudden power loss takes place before the cached data is flushed into non-volatile NAND flash memory.

3.5 ATA Secure Erase

ATA Secure Erase is an ATA disk purging command cur rently embedded in most of the storage drives. Defined in ATA specifications, (ATA) Secure Erase i s part of Security Feature Set that allows storage drives to erase all user data areas. The erase process usuall y runs on the firmware level as most of the ATA-bas ed storage media currently in the market are built-in with this command. ATA Secure Erase can securely wi pe out the user data in the drive and protects it from mal icious attack.

3.6 TRIM

TRIM, though in capital letters usually, is a memor y computation command rather than an abbreviation. It is mainly a SATA command that enables the operating sy stem to inform the SSD (Solid State Drive) which blocks of previously stored data are no longer vali d, due to erases by the host or operating system, s uch as file deletions or disk formatting. Once notified, S SD will begin the discard of the invalid LBAs and r etain more space for itself, in fact, the discarded is no longer recoverable. When an LBA is replaced by the operating system, as with overwrite of a file, the SSD is informed that the originally occupied LBA is determined as no longer in use or invalid. The SSD will not save those bloc ks in garbage collected sectors. Noticeably, a file delet ion command by host or operating system never actua lly erases the actual content, rather, just the file is marked as deleted. This issue is even specifically noticeable for flash based memory devices, such as SSDs. In fa ct, an SSD will keep garbage collecting the invalid , previously occupied LBAs, if it is not informed tha t these LBAs can be erased. Thus, the SSD would experience a significant performance downfall.

4.1 Environments

SAFD 18P environmental specifications follow the US Military Standard MIL-STD-810F, as shown in Table 4-1. Table 4-1 SAFD 18P environmental specifications Environment Specification 0° C to 70° C (Operating – Standard); -40° C to 85° C (Operating – ET*) Temperature -40° C to 100° C (Non-operating) Vibration Sine wave, 10 ~ 2000Hz Acceleration 15 G, X, Y, Z axis Shock Half sine wave

1500 G, ± X, ±Y, ±Z axis

*Extended Temperature **Non-operating conditions

4.2 Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is predicted base d on reliability data for the individual components in SAFD drive. Serving as statistical reference, the prediction result for SAFD 18P is more than 2,000,00 0 hours. Notes about the MTBF: The MTBF is predicated and calculated based on “Tel cordia Technologies Special Report, SR-332, Issue 2 ” method.

4.3 Certification and Compliance

SAFD 18P drive complies with the following standard s: /circle6 CE /circle6 FCC /circle6 RoHS /circle6 MIL-STD-810F

5.1 Operating Voltage

Table 5-1 lists the supply voltage for SAFD 18P. Table 5-1 SAFD 18P operating voltage Parameter Conditions

5.2 Power Consumption

Table 5-2 lists SAFD 18P power consumption. Table 5-2 SAFD 18P power consumption (Typical) Capacity Mode 8 GB 16 GB 32 GB 64 GB 128 GB Active Mode (mA) 610 920 978 800 600 Idle Mode (mA) 290 300 303 300 250 Note: power consumptions may vary depending on different flash configurations or platforms.

7.1 Product Code Designations

A P S 18P 6 A x x x x – 5 X X X Capacit ies : 008G: 08 GB 016G: 16 GB 032G: 32 GB 064G: 64 GB 128G: 128 GB Temperature Range Blank: Standard W: Extended Temperature Serial ATA Flash Drive Apacer Product Code 1.8 inch Form Factor Solution version Apacer Brand Flash Type T: Toshiba C: Micron Version Co ntrol Voltage Blank: 5V L: 3.3V

7.2 Valid Combinations

SAFD18P (voltage: 5V) Capacity Standard Extended Temperature

8 GB APS18P6A008G-5T APS18P6A008G-5TW

16 GB APS18P6A016G-5T APS18P6A016G-5TW

32 GB APS18P6A032G-5T APS18P6A032G-5TW

64 GB APS18P6A064G-5C APS18P6A064G-5CW

128 GB APS18P6A0128G-5C APS18P6A128G-5CW

SAFD18P (voltage: 3.3V) Capacity Standard Extended Temperature

8 GB APS18P6A008G-5TL APS18P6A008G-5TWL

16 GB APS18P6A016G-5TL APS18P6A016G-5TWL

32 GB APS18P6A032G-5TL APS18P6A032G-5TWL

64 GB APS18P6A064G-5CL APS18P6A064G-5CWL

128 GB APS18P6A128G-5CL APS18P6A128G-5CWL

Note: Please consult with Apacer sales representatives for availabilities.

Revision History

0.1 Preliminary release 09/02/2011

0.2 Added 64GB & 128GB capacities

Updated Product Ordering Information 10/17/2011

0.3 Updated Product Ordering Information 11/17/2011

1.0 Official release 11/30/2011

1.2 Added Endurance subsection

Revised Environmental section 05/24/2012

1.3 Updated Product Ordering Information due to fir mware upgrade 11/09/2012

1.4 Updated Product Ordering Information due to fir mware upgrade 06/26/2013

© 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.4 Global Presence Taiwan (Headquarters) Apacer Technology Inc. th Fl., 75 Hsin Tai Wu Rd., Sec.1 Xizhi, New Taipei City Taiwan 221 R.O.C. Tel: +886-2-2698-2888 Fax: +886-2-2698-2889 amtsales@apacer.com U.S.A. Apacer Memory America, Inc.

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Milpitas, CA 95035 Tel: 1-408-518-8699 Fax: 1-408-935-9611 sa@apacerus.com Japan Apacer Technology Corp. 5F, Matsura Bldg., Shiba, Minato-Ku Tokyo, 105-0014, Japan Tel: 81-3-5419-2668 Fax: 81-3-5419-0018 jpservices@apacer.com Europe Apacer Technology B.V. Science Park Eindhoven 5051 5692 EB Son, The Netherlands Tel: 31-40-267-0000 Fax: 31-40-267-0000#6199 sales@apacer.nl China Apacer Electronic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd 1301, No.251,Xiaomuqiao Road, Shanghai, 200032, China Tel: 86-21-5529-0222 Fax: 86-21-5206-6939 sales@apacer.com.cn India Apacer Technologies Pvt Ltd, # 535, 1st Floor, 8th cross, JP Nagar 3rd Phase, Bangalore – 560078, India Tel: 91-80-4152-9061 sales_india@apacer.com

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