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Cactus Technologies, Limited Commercial Grade -250SH series Product Manual January 3, 2018 www.cactus-tech.com...
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Voltage support: 5.0V±10% · Cactus Technologies ® -250SH series SSD is a high capacity solid-state flash memory product that complies with the Serial ATA 3.0 standard and is functionally compatible with a SATA hard disk drive. Cactus Technologies ® -250SH series SSD provide up to 8TB of formatted storage capacity.
Cactus Technologies, Limited 1.1. Supported Standards Cactus Technologies ® -250SH series SSD is fully compatible with the following specification: ATA 8 Specification published by ANSI · Serial ATA 3.0 Specification published by the Serial ATA International Organization · 1.2. Product Features Cactus Technologies ®...
All values quoted are typical at ambient temperature and nominal supply voltage unless otherwise stated. Sleep mode is specified under the condition that all drive inputs are static CMOS levels and in a “Not Busy“ operating state. Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
2TB: Up to 500TB 4TB: Up to 1000TB 8TB: Up to 2000TB 2.5. Physical Specifications The following sections provide the physical specifications for Cactus Technologies ® Commercial SSD products. Figure 2-1. 250SH 2.5” SSD Dimensions (7mm, 2TB) Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
Cactus Technologies, Limited Figure 2-3. 250SH 2.5” SSD w/ jumper option Dimensions (9.5mm, 4TB & 8TB ext. temp.) 2.6. Capacities The following table lists the available parts in the Cactus Technologies ® -250SH series SSDs: Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual...
Cactus Technologies, Limited Standard Temp. Extended Temp. 3.Interface Description The following sections provide detailed information on the Cactus Technologies ® Commercial SSD interface. 3.1. SSD Pin Assignments and Pin Type Cactus Technologies ® SSD uses industry standard 7+12 SATA connector. The signal/pin assignments and descriptions are listed in Table 3-5.
4.1. ATA Task File Definitions The following sections describes the usage of the ATA task file registers. Note that the Alternate Status Register of legacy ATA is not defined for SATA drives. Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
(LBA) for any SSD data access for the subsequent command. 4.1.6. Cylinder Low (LBA 15-8) Register This register contains the low order 8 bits of the starting cylinder address or bits 15-8 of the Logical Block Address. Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
These registers return the status when read by the host. Reading the Status register does clear a pending interrupt while reading the Auxiliary Status register does not. The meaning of the status bits are described as follows: BUSY CORR Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
Conflicts may occur on the host data bus when this bit is provided by a Floppy Disk Controller operating at the same addresses as the SSD. Following are some possible solutions to this problem: Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
Bit 1 (-nDS1) This bit is 0 when drive 1 is active and selected. Bit 0 (-nDS0) This bit is 0 when the drive 0 is active and selected. 5.ATA Command Description This section defines the ATA command set supported by Cactus Technologies ® -250SH series SSDs.
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B0h/D5h SMART Return Status B0h/DAh SMART Save Attribute Values B0h/D3h SMART Write Log B0h/D6h Stand By E2h, 96h Stand By Immediate E0h, 94h Soft Reset Write Buffer Write DMA Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
0078H Recommended MWDMA cycle time is 120ns. 0078H Minimum PIO cycle time without IORDY flow control is 120ns. 0078H Minimum PIO cycle time with IORDY flow control is 120ns. Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
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Alignment of logical blocks within a physical block 210-211 Write-Read-Verify Sector Count Mode 3 212-213 Write-Read-Verify Sector Count Mode 2 NV Cache Capabilities 215-216 NV Cache Size in Logical Blocks 0001H Nomial media rotational rate Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
03H 236-254 Reserved XXXXH Checksum 6. S.M.A.R.T. Feature Set Cactus Technologies ® -250SH Series SSDs supports S.M.A.R.T. attribute reporting. This following subcommands are supported when programmed into the Feature Register: Value Command Value Command Read Data SMART Write Log...
Number of flash program failures: Program Failure Block Count bits[23:0]: program fail count bits[47:24]: erase fail count Initial bad block count Number of initial bad blocks detected during firmware install Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
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Flush command count: bits[23:0]: self flush count bits[47:24]: host flush count Vendor specific Vendor specific Vendor specific Total Free Block The current number of total free blocks count Vendor specific Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
STATUS reg: Set ERR to one when self-test failed ERR reg: Set ABRT to one when self-test failed LBA LOW reg: Set to F4h when self-test failed LBA HIGH reg: Set to 2Ch when self-test failed Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
Number of sector in the log at log addresses 3 to 254 510-511 Number of sectors in the log at log address 255 6.5.2. Self-test Log Structure Byte(s) Description Log version Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
Ending LBA for test span 3 50-57 Starting LBA for test span 4 58-65 Ending LBA for test span 4 66-73 Starting LBA for test span 5 74-81 Ending LBA for test span 5 Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
If SMART operation is enabled subsequently, the attribute values will be updated accordingly. 6.9. S.M.A.R.T Return Status (subcommand DAh) This subcommand returns the pass/fail status of the device to the host. Cactus Technologies Limited Commercial Grade -250SH Series SSD Product Manual v2.1...
TBW is exceeded, whichever occurs first. This express warranty is extended by Cactus Technologies ® Limited to customers of our products. II. GENERAL PROVISIONS This warranty sets forth the full extent of Cactus Technologies ® responsibilities regarding the Cactus Technologies ®...
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® Customer Service department (tech@cactus-tech.com) with the following information: product model number and description, nature of defect, conditions of use, proof of purchase and purchase date. If approved, Cactus Technologies ® will issue a Return Material Authorization or Product Repair Authorization number and shipping instructions.