Intel® Solid-State Drive DC S3500
Product Specification December 2013
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Revision History Date
Revision
Description
April 2013
001
Initial release.
June 2013 002
1. Random write IOPS consistency ch anges from 75% to 80%
2. Added read power in table 8, 9 and 11
3. Added X,Y, Z dimension in section 3.0
December 2013 003
1. Updated Section 5.4.1 Timed Workload Endurance Indicators with user notes
2. Updated Table 6 notes
3. Updated Table 23
Term Definition
ATA
Advanced Technology Attachment
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
DAS
Device Activity Signal
DMA
Direct Memory Access
ECC
Error Correction Code
EXT
Extended
FPDMA
First Party Direct Memory Access
GB
Gigabyte
Note: The total usable capacity of the SSD may be less than the total physical capacity because a small
portion of the capacity is used for NAND flash management and maintenance purposes.
Gb
Gigabit
HDD
Hard Disk Drive
HET
High Endurance Technology
KB
Kilobyte
I/O
Input/Output
IOPS
Input/Output Operations Per Second
ISO
International Standards Organization
LBA
Logical Block Address
MB
Megabyte (1,000,000 bytes)
MLC
Multi-level Cell
MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
NCQ
Native Command Queuing
NOP
No Operation
PB
Petabyte
PCB
Printed Circuit Board
PIO
Programmed Input/Output
RDT
Reliability Demonstration Test
RMS
Root Mean Square
SATA
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SCT
SMART Command Transport