I6 Series

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Industrial Grade

2.5” SATA III MLC SSD

I6 Series

RD-S325MMN-M01T5

Ver.: A1

Mar, 2016

NOTE: RECADATA RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE PRODUCTS, INFORMATION AND

SPECIFICATIONS WITHOUT NOTICE. ALL PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS ARE PROVIDED

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PROPERTY RIGHT IS GRANTED BY ONE PARTY TO THE OTHER PARTY UNDER THIS

DOCUMENT, BY IMPLICATION, ESTOPPELS OR OTHER-WISE.

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I6 Series –Industrial Grade 2.5” SATAIII

MLC SSD 128GB to 1TB

1. Feature Summary

Form Factor: 2.5 inch SATA III SSD

Size : 100.2x69.85x9.0 mm( or 100.2x69.85x7.0 mm)

Weight:76g

Capacity(GB): 128GB to 1TB

Flash Type: MLC Nand Flash

Sequential Read/Write (MB/S) :530/450（Max）

4KB Random IOPS Read/Write @QD32: 70K/77K（Max）

Support S.M.A.R.T, NCQ, Windows Trim Command

Power Management

Voltage : 5V±5%

Power (Active/Idle) :5W/0.5W

Environmental

Vibration: 1500G/0.5ms

Shock: 20G(10 ~2000 HZ)

Humidity :5% ~ 95% (non- condensable)

Working Temp.: -40℃ to +85℃

Storage Temp.: -55℃ to +95℃

Reliability

MTBF: 2,000,000 Hours

Data Retention: 5 Years

TBW(1TB): 2,360TB

Key Features

Large capacity up to 1TB

Power Fail Protection

Fast Secure Erase optional(SW/HW triggered )

Physical Destruction optional

AES256 Encryption optional

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2. Contents

1 Feature Summary....................................................................................................... 2

2 Contents ...................................................................................................................... 3

3 Order Information...................................................................................................... 5

3.1 Part Number Decoder .................................................................................... 5

3.2 Current Standard Part Number ..................................................................... 6

3.3 Offered OEM Options ..................................................................................... 7

4. Product Specification ....................................................................................................... 7

4.1Physical Dimensions ........................................................................................ 8

4.2Interface ........................................................................................................... 8

4.3Capacity ........................................................................................................... 9

4.4Performance .................................................................................................... 9

4.5Environmental Specification ......................................................................... 10

4.5.1 Temperature .............................................................................................. 10

4.5.2 Shock .......................................................................................................... 10

4.5.3 Vibration .................................................................................................... 10

4.5.4 Humidity .................................................................................................... 10

4.6 Reliability....................................................................................................... 11

4.6.1 MTBF .......................................................................................................... 11

4.6.2 ECC (Error Correction Code) ...................................................................... 11

4.6.3 Data Retention ........................................................................................... 11

4.6.4 Power Fail Protection ................................................................................ 12

4.7 Endurance ..................................................................................................... 12

4.7.1 TBW (Total Bytes Written) .......................................................................... 12

4.7.2 Write Endurance ........................................................................................ 13

4.7.3 Wear-leveling ............................................................................................. 13

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4.8 Secure Erase ................................................................................................. 13

5. Electric Specification ....................................................................................................... 15

5.1 Pin Descriptions ............................................................................................ 15

5.1.1 Pin Assignment .................................................................................................. 15

5.2 Electrical Characteristics ..................................................................................... 16

5.2.1 Absolute Maximum Rating .............................................................................. 16

5.2.2Power Supply Operation Conditions .............................................................. 16

5.2.3 Power Consumption ......................................................................................... 16

6. ATA Command Description........................................................................................... 17

6.1 ATA Command Set ................................................................................................ 17

6.2 SMART Feature Set ............................................................................................... 19

6.3 SMART Attributes .......................................................................................................... 20

7. Revision History ............................................................................................................... 21

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3. Order Information

3.1 Part Number Decoder

RD – S3 18 M I N – N 032 5

9. Sequential Read rate

8. Un-format Capacity

7. External SDRAM

6. Function Feature

5. Operation Temperature

4. Flash Type

3. Dimension

2. Interface

1. Manufacturer

Number Character Description

1 RD RECADATA Storage Technology Co.,Ltd.

2

S2 SATA II

S3 SATA III

P0 PATA

U2 USB 2.0

U3 USB 3.0

P2 PCI-e 2.0

P3 PCI-e 3.0

D0 SD

3

18 1.8inch

25 2.5inch

01 Micro SATA

02 MO297 (Half-slim)

03 CF Card

04 DOM

05 CFast

06 PCI-e

07 6U VPX

08 3U VPX

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09 SD

50 m-SATA 50mm

4

M MLC

S SLC

T TLC

5

M -40~85℃

I -20~70℃

C 0~70℃

E -55~125℃

6 N Normal Function (Standard Function)

D Security Erase Function

7 M External SDRAM

N No external SDRAM

8

016 16GB

032 32GB

064 64GB

128 128GB

256 256GB

512 512GB

01T 1TB

02T 2TB

9

0 <100MB/s

1 ≥100MB/s

2 ≥200MB/s

3 ≥300MB/s

4 ≥400MB/s

5 ≥500MB/s

Table 1 Product numbering scheme

3.2 Current Standard Part Number

The RECADATA I6 Series MLC SSD standard Part Numbers are listed below:

Table2 Part Number List

Capacity Part Number

128GB RD-S325MMN-M1285

256GB RD-S325MMN-M2565

512GB RD-S325MMN-M5125

1TB RD-S325MMN-M01T5

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3.3 Offered OEM Options

Customer Specified Drive ID (Strings) Option

Preload Services (also drive images with any file system) Option

Physical Destruction Option

Fast Secure Erse By ATA Command or Jumper Option

AES256 Encryption Option

4. Product Specification

The RECADATA I6 Series Industrial Grade 2.5 SATA III MLC SSD is designed as a rugged

SSD and extremely reliable storage solution in harsh environments ,for demanding

applications like High-end embedded system, Aviation/UAV video capture system,

Rugged Computer, Ship borne/Marine, Radar Systems and other Defense/Military

Special Equipment etc. It can provide a much larger capacity up to1TB and extreme

SATA III Performance up to 530/450 MB/S（MAX） sequential read/write speed and

70,000/77,000（MAX） IOPS with 4KB random access.

Special features such as NCQ, TRIM, Overvoltage and short-circuit protection and

Power Fail protection enable higher & consistent sequential and random

performance while providing the high level of reliability required in industrial

applications. They use the most reliable SLC or MLC (5,000 write cycles) NAND Flash

available on the market today and comprise a large number of features such as Fast

Secure erase, AES Encryption and Physical Destruction methods as well as support

for S.M.A.R.T based on life time monitoring tool that allows users to have full control

of mission critical data reliably at any given time.

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4.1Physical Dimensions

Table3 Physical Dimensions and Weight

Parameter Value

Length 100.2+0.2 mm

width 69.85+0.2 mm

height 9.0+0.2 mm

Figure1 I6 Series Physical Dimensions

4.2Interface

The interface of RECADATA I6 Series complies with the standard Serial ATA version

3.1:

1. Host Transfer Rate is 6.0Gb/s

2. PIO mode 0,1,2,3,4

3. DMA mode 0,1,2

4. UDMA mode 0,1,2,3,4,5,6

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4.3Capacity

Table 4 Capacity Specification

Capacity Total Byte(User) Max LBA

128GB 126，701，535，232 247,463,936

256GB 253，403，070，464 494,927,872

512GB 506，806，140，928 989,855,744

1TB 1，013，612，281，856 1,979,711,488

4.4Performance

Table 5 Maximum Transfer speed

Data Transfer SSD Volume Max Read Max Write Unit

Sequential

Rate

128GB 522 325

MB/S

256GB 522 325

512GB 530 450

1TB 530 450

Notes:

1. Test Environments: Intel I5-3470 CPU Dual Core, B75 Motherboard, 4GB

DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 Pro SP1

2. Benchmarking program: CrystalDiskMark V3.0.1

Table 6 Maximum Random IOPS

Data Transfer SSD Volume Max Read Max Write

IOPS

Random Rate

128GB 70K 75K

256GB 70K 73K

512GB 70K 73K

1TB 70K 77K

Notes:

1. Test Environments: Intel I5-3470 CPU Dual Core, B75 Motherboard, 4GB

DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 Pro SP1

2. Benchmarking program: CrystalDiskMark V3.0.1

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4.5Environmental Specification

4.5.1 Temperature

Table 7 Temperature

Parameter Value Unit

Operating -40 to 85 ℃

Non-operating -55 to 95 ℃

Notes:

1. Test environment: High/low Temperature testing chamber at RECADATA

2. Operating Test Duration: 4 hours at every temperature(-40℃,+85℃)

3. Test Items: Cold-start at -40℃ and Burn-in-test at +85℃

4.5.2 Shock

Table 8 Shock Specifications

Parameter Acceleration Force Unit

Operating 1500 G

Notes:

1. Test pluse shape: half sin

2. Test duration: 0.5ms

4.5.3 Vibration

Table 9 Vibration Specifications

Parameter Acceleration Force Unit

Operating 20 peak G

Notes:

1. 20~20 KHZ Vibration

4.5.4 Humidity

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Table 10 Humidity Specifications

Parameter Acceleration Force Unit

Operating 5 to 95 %

Notes:

1. Test duration: 24hours

2. Test methods: Samples not all products are selected to be tested.

3. Test environments: at the third party

4.6 Reliability

4.6.1 MTBF

Table 11 MTBF Specifications

Parameter Value (Hours)

MTBF 2,000,000

4.6.2 ECC (Error Correction Code)

Table 12 ECC

ECC Value (bits)

BCH ECC 66 bits in 1024bytes

4.6.3 Data Retention

Table 13 Data Retention

Data Retention Value (years)

Data Retention @ 25℃ 5 years

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4.6.4 Power Fail Protection

The RECADATA I6 Series SSD is specially designed with industrial-grade Tantalum

Capacitors Array and the power-off detection circuit based, to ensure that all data will

be written back to the NAND from DDR in case of any sudden power-off in extreme

environments.

4.7 Endurance

4.7.1 TBW (Total Bytes Written)

The RECADATA I6 Series MLC SSD is provided with 2 years warranty for common

application except abuse data input. The lifetime also depends on the TBW based

on SSD capacity.

TBW=𝐒𝐒𝐃 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲∗𝟎.𝟗𝟐∗𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞∗Endurance improvement ratio

1000∗Risk ratio

Note:

(1) The Flash write cycles is referred as the flash datasheet and based on recycling

mechanism or data protection mechanism;

(2) The Endurance improvement ratio is referred as the write cycles improvement

through ECC algorithm;

(3) The Risk ratio is referred as the risk ratio the SSD manufacturer can accept

within lifespan. Normally it is 2 in SSD industry standards;

α: SSD total capacity

β: Flash average writing times, RECADATA MLC NAND FLASH Write times is 5000.

The details can be referred to in flash datasheet.

γ: Data amplification ratio, the less it is, the more the lifespan of SSD is. Rana-M’s

ratio is 0.3.

δ:The data input volume every day.

Table 14 TBW

Capacity TBW

128 177

256 354

512 1180

1TB 2360

δγ

βα

*

*lifespan

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4.7.2 Write Endurance

Table 15 Endurance

Endurance Value (bits)

Write Eudurance@100G

write/day

10 years(256GB)

Read Endurance unlimited

4.7.3 Wear-leveling

RECADATA’s all SSD products support both dynamic and static wear-leveling.

These two algorithms guarantee all type of flash memory at same level of

erase cycles to improve lifetime limitation of NAND based storage.

4.8 Secure Erase

Generally, The RECADATA I6 Series Industrial Grade 2.5 SATA III MLC SSD provides

two types of destruction methods: Fast Secure Erase (by software) and Physical

Destruction (by hardware) Different users prefer different modes according to the

applications requirements.

1. Fast Secure Erase

1) ATA Command Trigger:

The Secure Erase function can also be trigger by Host ATA Command directly.

2) Jumper (2Pin short) Trigger:

a) Connect the RECADATA SSD with power supply, the external LED light is “OFF”;

b) Press down the destruction button, the external LED light turns “ON”, the

self-destruction function is triggered if the pressing LED time is longer than 3

seconds ,But it will resume status “a)” if the pressing LED time is less than 3

seconds.

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c) When the self-destruction starts, The external LED light turns “twinkling” until

the destruction process is completed, and it will execute destruction command

continuously until the user data is totally destroyed if any power fail during the

destruction period and the SSD is powered up again;

d) Once the Fast Secure Erase process is totally completed, The External LED

light turns “OFF”

Note:

a) Power (supply) is the only key to trigger secure erase process; SATA Signal is

not related in this Jumper trigger mode.

b) Destroy the data stored on the Flash memory and all data in the SSD is erased,

however the SSD can be used again after initialization.

3) Physical Destruction

A momentary higher voltage is produced by the onboard circuit to destroy the

flash storage medium .The SSD can’t be used again if the hardware is destroyed;

Note:

1：The higher voltage is required +28V while the Power Consumption is no less

than 200W.

2：The SSD will become burned hot with smoke during the physical destruction

period, please don’t touch it.

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5. Electric Specification

5.1 Pin Descriptions

5.1.1 Pin Assignment

Figure2 Pin Locations

Table 16 SATA interface Pin assignment

Pin Name Description Pin Name Description

S1 GND 2nd mate P5 GND 2nd mate

S2 A+ Differential signal pair A

From physical layer

electronics

P6 GND 2nd mate

S3 A- P7 V5 5v power, pre-charge, 2nd

mate

S4 GND 2nd mate P8 V5 5v power

S5 B- Differential signal pair B

From physical layer

electronics

P9 V5 5v power

S6 B+ P10 GND 2nd mate

S7 GND 2nd mate P11 DAS Device activity signal (not

used)

P1 V28

Physical Destroy Voltage

Input

P12 GND 1st mate

P2 V28 P13 SEO Security Erase Indicator

Output

P3 V28 P14 SEI Security Erase Trigger Input

P4 GND 1st mate P15 V12 12v power (not used)

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5.2 Electrical Characteristics

5.2.1 Absolute Maximum Rating

Table 17 Absolute maximum rating

Parameter Symbol Condition Min Max Unit

Storage temperature TSGT -55 95 ℃

Input Power Voltage VIN -0.3 6.5 V

5.2.2Power Supply Operation Conditions

Table 18 recommended power supply operation conditions

Parameter Symbol Condition Min Max Unit

Input Power Voltage VIN 4.75 5.25 V

5.2.3 Power Consumption

Recommended DC operation voltage: 4.75~5.25V

Table 19 power consumption

Parameter Typical Unit

Idle 0.65 W

4KB sample data

Sequential read 0.80 W

Sequential write 1.2 W

Random read 0.85 W

Random write 1.8 W

512KB sample data

Sequential read 0.75 W

Sequential write 0.8 W

Random read 0.8 W

Random write 1.7 W

Note: 1.The power consumption can differ depending on the disk capacity and

the type of flash memory being used.

2. Test sample: I6 Series 256GB 2.5” SATAIII MLC SSD

3. Supply voltage: 5.0V

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6. ATA Command Description

6.1 ATA Command Set

Table 21 ATA commands list

Command Code(Hex) Protocol

General Feature Set

Execute Device Diagnostic 90h Execute device diagnostic

Flush Cache E7h Non-data

Identify Device ECh PIO data-in

Initialize Drive Parameter 91h Non-data

Read DMA C8h DMA

Read Log Ext 2Fh PIO data-in

Read Multiple C4h PIO data-in

Read Sector(s) 20h PIO data-in

Read Verify Sector(s) 40h or 41h Non-data

Set Feature Efh Non-data

Set Multiple Mode C6h Non-data

Write DMA Cah DMA

Write Multiple C5h PIO data-in

Write Sector(s) 30h PIO data-out

NOP 00h Non-data

Read Buffer E4h PIO data-in

Writer Buffer E8h PIO data-out

Power Management Feature Set

Check Power Mode E5h or 98h Non-data

Idle E3h or 97h Non-data

Idle Immediate E1h or 95h Non-data

Sleep E6h or 99h Non-data

Standby E2h or 96h Non-data

Standby Immediate E0h or 94h Non-data

Security Mode Feature Set

Security Set Password F1h PIO data-out

Security Unlock F2h PIO data-out

Security Erase Prepare F3h Non-data

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Security Erase Unit F4h PIO data-out

Security Freeze Lock F5h Non-data

Security Disable Password F6h PIO data-out

SMART Feature Set

SMART Disable Operations B0h Non-data

SMART Enable/Disable Auto-save B0h Non-data

SMART Enable Operations B0h Non-data

SMART Execute OFF-LINE Immediate B0h Non-data

SMART Read Log B0h PIO data-in

SMART Read Threshold B0h PIO data-in

SMART Read Data B0h PIO data-in

SMART Return Status B0h Non-data

SMART Save Attribute Values B0h Non-data

SMART Write Log B0h PIO data-out

Host Protected Area Feature Set

Read Native Max Address F8h Non-data

Set Max Address F9h Non-data

Set Max Set Password F9h PIO data-out

Set Max Lock F9h Non-data

Set Max Freeze Lock F9h Non-data

Set Max Unlock F9h PIO data-out

48-bit Address Feature Set

Flush Cache Ext Eah Non-data

Read Sector(s) Ext 24h PIO data-in

Read DMA Ext 25h DMA

Read Multiple 29h PIO data-in

Read Native Max Address Ext 27h Non-data

Read Verity Sector(s) Ext 42h Non-data

Set Max Address Ext 37h Non-data

Write DMA Ext 35h DMA

Write Multiple Ext 39h PIO data-out

Write Sector(s) Ext 34h PIO data-out

NCQ Feature Set

Read FPDMA Queued 60h DMA Queued

Write FPDMA Queued 61h DMA Queued

Others

Data Set Management 06h DMA

Seek 70h Non-data

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6.2 SMART Feature Set

The SSD controller supports the SMART command set and defines some

vendor-specific data to report spare/bad block numbers in each memory

management unit. Table 22: SMART Feature Register Values

Value Command Value Command

D0h Read Data D5h Read Log

D1h Read Attribute Threshold D6h Write Log

D2h Enable/Disable Autosave D8h Enable SMART Operations

D3h Save Attribute Values D9h Disable SMART Operations

D4h Execute OFF-LINE Immediate DAh Return Status

If the reserved size is below the threshold, the status can be read from the Cylinder

Register using the Return Status command (DAh).

The following 512bytes make up the SMART data structure. Users can obtain the

data using the “Read Data” command (D0h).

Table 23 SMART data structure

Byte F / V Description

0-1 X Revision code

2-361 X Vendor specific

362 V Off-line data collection status

363 X Self-test execution status byte

364-365 V Total time in seconds to complete off-line data collection activity

366 X Vendor specific

367 F Off-line data collection capability

368-369 F SMART capability

370 F

Error logging capability

7-1 Reserved

0 1=Device error logging supported

371 X Vendor specific

372 F Short self-test routine recommended polling time(in minutes)

373 F Extended self-test routine recommended polling time (in minutes)

374 F Conveyance Self-test routine recommended polling time (in

minutes)

375-385 R Reserved

386-395 F Firmware version / data code

396-399 F Vendor specific

400-408 F Reserved

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409-415 X Vendor specific

416-417 F Reserved

418-419 V Number of spare block

420 F Reserved

421-422 V Average erase count

423 F Reserved

424-425 V Max erase count

426 F Reserved

427-428 V Min erase count

429-510 X Vendor specific

511 V Data structure checksum

Notes:

1. F=content (byte) is fixed and does not change.

2. V=content (byte) is variable and may change depending on the state of

the device or the commands executed by the device.

3. X=contents (byte) is vendor specific ad may be fixed or variable.

4. R=content (byte) is reserved and shall be zero.

6.3 SMART Attributes

The following table defines the vendor specific data in byte 2 to 381 of the 512-byte

SMART data.

Table 24SMART Attribute

Attribute

ID(hex) Raw Attribute Value Attribute Name

01 MSB 00 00 00 00 00 Read error rate

05 LSB MSB 00 00 00 00 Reallocated sectors count

09 LSB MSB 00 00 Reserved

0C LSB MSB 00 00 Power cycle count

A0 LSB MSB 00 00 Uncorrectable sector count when

read/write

A1 LSB MSB 00 00 00 00 Number of valid spare block

A2 LSB MSB 00 00 00 00 Number of cache data block

A3 LSB MSB 00 00 00 00 Number of initial invalid block

A4 LSB MSB 00 00 Total erase count

A5 LSB MSB 00 00 Maximum erase count

A6 LSB MSB 00 00 Minimum erase count

A7 LSB MSB 00 00 Average erase count

C0 LSB MSB 00 00 Power-off retract count

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C2 MSB 00 00 00 00 00 Controller temperature

C3 LSB MSB 00 00 Hardware ECC recovered

C4 LSB MSB 00 00 Reallocation event count

C7 LSB MSB 00 00 00 00 Ultra DMA CRC error count

F1 LSB MSB 00 00 Total LBAs written (each write unit = 32MB)

F2 LSB MSB 00 00 Total LBAs Read (each read unit = 32MB)

7. Revision History

Table24 Document Revision History

Date Revision Description

Dec.,2014 A0 Official Release

Mar.,2016 A1 Update Datasheet Format