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Table of Contents

1. General Descriptions ........................................................................4

2. Functional Block ...............................................................................4

3. Pin Assignments................................................................................5

4. Product Specifications......................................................................7

4.1 Capacity......................................................................................................................................... 7

4.2 Performance .................................................................................................................................. 7

4.3 Environmental Specifications ........................................................................................................ 7

4.4 Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) .......................................................................................... 8

4.5 Certification and Compliance......................................................................................................... 8

4.6 Endurance ..................................................................................................................................... 8

4.7 LED Indicator Behavior.................................................................................................................. 9

5. Flash Management ..........................................................................10

5.1 Error Correction/Detection........................................................................................................... 10

5.2 Bad Block Management .............................................................................................................. 10

5.3 Global Wear Leveling .................................................................................................................. 10

5.4 Flash Translation Layer

– Page Mapping....................................................................................10

5.5 Power Failure Management ........................................................................................................ 11

5.6 TRIM ............................................................................................................................................ 11

5.7 Over-Provisioning ........................................................................................................................ 11

5.8 Hyper Cache Technology ............................................................................................................ 11

5.9 SMART Read RefreshTM ............................................................................................................. 11

5.10 NVMe Secure Erase.................................................................................................................. 11

6. NVMe Support Features..................................................................12

6.1 Host Memory Buffer..................................................................................................................... 12

7. Security & Reliability Features ......................................................13

7.1 Thermal Sensor ........................................................................................................................... 13

7.2 Thermal Throttling ....................................................................................................................... 13

7.3 Advanced Encryption Standard ................................................................................................... 13

7.4 End-to-End Data Protection......................................................................................................... 13

7.5 Signed Firmware ......................................................................................................................... 13