Supported Standards; Product Features; Host And Technology Independence; Defect And Error Management - Cactus OEM Grade -245S Series Product Manual

1.1. Supported Standards

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ATA 8/ACS2 Specification published by ANSI
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Serial ATA 3.1 Specification published by the Serial ATA International Organization
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1.2. Product Features

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intelligent controller provides many capabilities including the following:
Standard ATA register and command set (same as found on most magnetic disk
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drives).
Manages details of erasing and programming flash memory independent of the host
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system
Sophisticated defect managing capabilities (similar to magnetic disk drives).
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Sophisticated system for error recovery using powerful error correction code (ECC).
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Intelligent power management for low power operation.
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1.2.1.

Host and Technology Independence

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system. The drive utilizes a 512-byte sector which is the same as that in an IDE magnetic
disk drive. To write or read a sector (or multiple sectors), the host computer software simply
issues an ATA Read or Write command to the drive as per the SATA protocol. The host
software then waits for the command to complete. The host system does not get involved in
the details of how the flash memory is erased, programmed or read as this is all managed by
the built-in controller in the drive. Also, with the intelligent on-board controller, the host
system software will not require changing as new flash memory evolves. Thus, systems that
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having to update or change host software.
1.2.2.

Defect and Error Management

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management system similar to those found in magnetic disk drives. The defect management
is completely transparent to the host and does not consume any user data space.
The soft error rate for Cactus Technologies
magnetic disk drives. In the extremely rare case where a read error does occur, the drive has
sophisticated ECC to recover the data.
These defect and error management systems, coupled with the solid-state construction, give
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mSATA SSD is fully compatible with the following specification:
OEM mSATA SSD contains a high level, intelligent controller. This
OEM mSATA SSD appears as a standard SATA disk drive to the host
® OEM mSATA SSD products today will continue to work with
® OEM mSATA SSDs built with new flash technology without
OEM mSATA SSD contains a sophisticated defect and error
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OEM mSATA SSDs unparalleled reliability.
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OEM mSATA SSD is much lower than that of
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