Intel® Solid-State Drive 530 Series (M.2)
Product Specification September 2013
6 Order Number: 329213-002US
1.1 Terminology Table 1: Terminology
Term Description
ATA
Advanced Technology Attachment
DAS
Device Activity Signal
DevSleep
Device Sleep, a new addition to the SATA specification
DIPM
Device Initiated Power Management
DMA
Direct Memory Access
EXT
Extended
FPDMA
First Party Direct Memory Access
GB
Gigabyte (1,000,000,000 bytes)
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.
HDD
Hard Disk Drive
HIPM
Host Initiated Power Management
I/O
Input/Output
IOPS
Input/Output Operations Per Second
KB
Kilobyte (1,024 bytes)
LBA
Logical Block Address
LPM
Link Power Management
MB
Megabyte (1,000,000 bytes)
MLC
Multi-level Cell
MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
NCQ
Native Command Queuing
NOP
No Operation
PIO Programmed Input/Output
RDT
Reliability Demonstration Test
RMS
Root Mean Squared
SATA
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SMART
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
SSD
Solid-State Drive
TYP
Typical
UBER
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate