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Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Order Number: 325912-001US September 2011
Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Order Number: 325912-001US September 2011
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...of others. Copyright © 2011 Intel Corporation. Intel reserves these for future definition and shall have no responsibility whatsoever for conflicts or incompatibilities arising from published specifications. All rights reserved. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide INFORMATION IN THIS ... from future changes to specifications and product descriptions at any features or instructions marked "reserved" or "undefined." Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide ii September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US NO LICENSE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY ESTOPPEL OR...
...of others. Copyright © 2011 Intel Corporation. Intel reserves these for future definition and shall have no responsibility whatsoever for conflicts or incompatibilities arising from published specifications. All rights reserved. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide INFORMATION IN THIS ... from future changes to specifications and product descriptions at any features or instructions marked "reserved" or "undefined." Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide ii September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US NO LICENSE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY ESTOPPEL OR...
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... Tuner Settings 25 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide iii Tuning your Intel SSD 16 About the Intel® SSD Optimizer 16 Intel® SSD Optimizer Requirements 16 Manually Running the Intel® SSD Optimizer 17 Scheduling the Intel® SSD Optimizer 17 Removing a Scheduled Intel® SSD Optimizer Session 18 5. Running Diagnostic Scans 19 Quick...
... Tuner Settings 25 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide iii Tuning your Intel SSD 16 About the Intel® SSD Optimizer 16 Intel® SSD Optimizer Requirements 16 Manually Running the Intel® SSD Optimizer 17 Scheduling the Intel® SSD Optimizer 17 Removing a Scheduled Intel® SSD Optimizer Session 18 5. Running Diagnostic Scans 19 Quick...
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Drives...30 Troubleshooting - Firmware Update 30 Troubleshooting - Obtaining More Information 32 Related Publications ...32 Reference Documents ...32 Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide iv September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Troubleshooting...30 Troubleshooting - Intel® SSD Optimizer 31 10. Performing a Secure Erase 27 About Secure Erase...27 Secure Erase Requirements ...27 Deleting a Partition ...27 Running Secure Erase ...28 Creating a Partition ...29 9. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 8.
Drives...30 Troubleshooting - Firmware Update 30 Troubleshooting - Obtaining More Information 32 Related Publications ...32 Reference Documents ...32 Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide iv September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Troubleshooting...30 Troubleshooting - Intel® SSD Optimizer 31 10. Performing a Secure Erase 27 About Secure Erase...27 Secure Erase Requirements ...27 Deleting a Partition ...27 Running Secure Erase ...28 Creating a Partition ...29 9. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 8.
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... Drive Toolbox The Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox is drive management software that allows you to: • View current drive information for Intel® Solid-State Drives, including: • Drive Health • Estimated Life Remaining • SMART attributes (also available for hard disk drives and non-Intel® SSDs) • IDENTIFY DEVICE Information data (also available for hard disk drives and non-Intel SSDs...
... Drive Toolbox The Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox is drive management software that allows you to: • View current drive information for Intel® Solid-State Drives, including: • Drive Health • Estimated Life Remaining • SMART attributes (also available for hard disk drives and non-Intel® SSDs) • IDENTIFY DEVICE Information data (also available for hard disk drives and non-Intel SSDs...
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... the left and right of the screen to scroll through and select a drive. See Identifying a Drive for drives and refresh all Intel® Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs) and other actions are recommended on the selected Intel SSD, the following icon appears next to an option on Intel SSDs. Click Export to export and save SMART attributes, IDENTIFY DEVICE information...
... the left and right of the screen to scroll through and select a drive. See Identifying a Drive for drives and refresh all Intel® Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs) and other actions are recommended on the selected Intel SSD, the following icon appears next to an option on Intel SSDs. Click Export to export and save SMART attributes, IDENTIFY DEVICE information...
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... drives installed in the system including Intel SSDs, non-Intel SSDs, and hard disk drives (HDDs). Note: RAID volumes and RAID volume members have limited functionality in a RAID volume). All located drives appear on simple dynamic partitions only. Move the mouse over the drive to scroll through and select a drive. Intel SSD Toolbox identifies this type of drive as part of the drives...
... drives installed in the system including Intel SSDs, non-Intel SSDs, and hard disk drives (HDDs). Note: RAID volumes and RAID volume members have limited functionality in a RAID volume). All located drives appear on simple dynamic partitions only. Move the mouse over the drive to scroll through and select a drive. Intel SSD Toolbox identifies this type of drive as part of the drives...
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... level and reached the final value. Note: To update firmware on the selected Intel SSD. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 8 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Drive Health On the home screen, Drive Health shows the current health of the Intel SSD Toolbox, the following icon appears next to the NAND lithography. It is 50nm...
... level and reached the final value. Note: To update firmware on the selected Intel SSD. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 8 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Drive Health On the home screen, Drive Health shows the current health of the Intel SSD Toolbox, the following icon appears next to the NAND lithography. It is 50nm...
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... pie chart appears for NAND flash management and maintenance purposes. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 9 Note: You can also move the mouse pointer over the Intel SSD on the selected Intel SSD. This estimate is 50nm. Scroll down and view Model Number (Word 27-46): • If...
... pie chart appears for NAND flash management and maintenance purposes. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 9 Note: You can also move the mouse pointer over the Intel SSD on the selected Intel SSD. This estimate is 50nm. Scroll down and view Model Number (Word 27-46): • If...
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... is frozen. If set to one , the security is supported. • Bit 1 indicates security enabled. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Identifying the Security State of an Intel SSD To identify the security state of an Intel SSD: 1. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 10 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US If set supported.
... is frozen. If set to one , the security is supported. • Bit 1 indicates security enabled. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Identifying the Security State of an Intel SSD To identify the security state of an Intel SSD: 1. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 10 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US If set supported.
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.... 1. Note: To reissue the ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command and display updated information for more information. For Intel SSDs, the model number contains reference to the NAND lithography. • Security Status (Word 128) Security state of the selected drive. • Bit 0 indicates the Security Mode feature set to one , the security is supported. •...
.... 1. Note: To reissue the ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command and display updated information for more information. For Intel SSDs, the model number contains reference to the NAND lithography. • Security Status (Word 128) Security state of the selected drive. • Bit 0 indicates the Security Mode feature set to one , the security is supported. •...
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... can be opened in a program such as Microsoft Excel*. Each drive operates under SMART Summary. 3. ID Attribute Spin Up Time 03 For Intel SSDs, reports a fixed value of 100.) Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 12 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Viewing SMART...Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes on the home screen. 2. For more details on the Intel SSD or other drive selected. See the ATA specifications for the selected drive to a .csv (comma-separated values) file. Each attribute has a raw value (defined by the selected...
... can be opened in a program such as Microsoft Excel*. Each drive operates under SMART Summary. 3. ID Attribute Spin Up Time 03 For Intel SSDs, reports a fixed value of 100.) Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 12 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Viewing SMART...Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes on the home screen. 2. For more details on the Intel SSD or other drive selected. See the ATA specifications for the selected drive to a .csv (comma-separated values) file. Each attribute has a raw value (defined by the selected...
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... is 10 percent availability. Case temperature is not an issue for each LBA tag mismatch detected. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Start/Stop Count 04 For Intel SSDs, reports a fixed value of retired blocks since leaving the factory (grown defect count). The normalized... value begins at 100 and decrements by 1 for SSDs. The normalized value, beginning at 100, shows the percent remaining...
... is 10 percent availability. Case temperature is not an issue for each LBA tag mismatch detected. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Start/Stop Count 04 For Intel SSDs, reports a fixed value of retired blocks since leaving the factory (grown defect count). The normalized... value begins at 100 and decrements by 1 for SSDs. The normalized value, beginning at 100, shows the percent remaining...
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... Read F2 Counts sectors read operations (since reset of I/O operations that significant additional wear can be put on the home screen. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Unsafe Shutdown Count (Power-off without STANDBY IMMEDIATE being the last command. The raw value increases by 1 for ... errors. Timed Workload Timer E4 Measures the elapsed time (number of reserve blocks remaining. CRC Error Count C7 The total number of the SSD. Available Reserved Space E8 Reports the number of minutes) since reset of the Timed Workload Timer, attribute E4), as the average erase cycle...
... Read F2 Counts sectors read operations (since reset of I/O operations that significant additional wear can be put on the home screen. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Unsafe Shutdown Count (Power-off without STANDBY IMMEDIATE being the last command. The raw value increases by 1 for ... errors. Timed Workload Timer E4 Measures the elapsed time (number of reserve blocks remaining. CRC Error Count C7 The total number of the SSD. Available Reserved Space E8 Reports the number of minutes) since reset of the Timed Workload Timer, attribute E4), as the average erase cycle...
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... a program such as central processing unit (CPU), chipset, and controller name and driver version. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 15 Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Exporting SMART Attributes On the home screen, click Export to a .csv (comma-separated values) file. Viewing System...
... a program such as central processing unit (CPU), chipset, and controller name and driver version. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 15 Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Exporting SMART Attributes On the home screen, click Export to a .csv (comma-separated values) file. Viewing System...
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... Windows 7 natively implements Trim functionality. This notification allows the SSD to clean up or turn on the SSD using Trim functionality (a command that information to the SSD. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Optimizing your Intel SSD About the Intel® SSD Optimizer The Intel SSD Optimizer helps an Intel SSD retain its out-of-box performance by removing deleted data...
... Windows 7 natively implements Trim functionality. This notification allows the SSD to clean up or turn on the SSD using Trim functionality (a command that information to the SSD. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Optimizing your Intel SSD About the Intel® SSD Optimizer The Intel SSD Optimizer helps an Intel SSD retain its out-of-box performance by removing deleted data...
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... the Intel SSDs are in a RAID configuration. Manually run the Intel SSD Optimizer one Intel SSD, you receive a warning message stating the Intel SSD Optimizer has detected the presence of the tool. Select the Intel SSD on the computer to run a scheduled session. • Do not schedule the Intel SSD Optimizer to all supported Intel SSDs by clicking All Supported Intel SSDs. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox...
... the Intel SSDs are in a RAID configuration. Manually run the Intel SSD Optimizer one Intel SSD, you receive a warning message stating the Intel SSD Optimizer has detected the presence of the tool. Select the Intel SSD on the computer to run a scheduled session. • Do not schedule the Intel SSD Optimizer to all supported Intel SSDs by clicking All Supported Intel SSDs. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox...
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... you the Intel SSD Optimizer is running the Intel SSD Optimizer on the selected Intel SSD, review the following: ─ If the Intel SSD is not in a RAID configuration but is in the Windows* task tray notifying you want to continue running . See Troubleshooting - Click Schedule. 3. Set the schedule (including day, time, and frequency). 6. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox...
... you the Intel SSD Optimizer is running the Intel SSD Optimizer on the selected Intel SSD, review the following: ─ If the Intel SSD is not in a RAID configuration but is in the Windows* task tray notifying you want to continue running . See Troubleshooting - Click Schedule. 3. Set the schedule (including day, time, and frequency). 6. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox...
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... hour or more to create and validate random data. To run in the background. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Running Diagnostic Scans Quick Diagnostic Scan Run the Quick Diagnostic scan to unused areas of the Intel SSD, and then compares it back to create and validate random data. creates 1 GB of...
... hour or more to create and validate random data. To run in the background. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Running Diagnostic Scans Quick Diagnostic Scan Run the Quick Diagnostic scan to unused areas of the Intel SSD, and then compares it back to create and validate random data. creates 1 GB of...
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Click Run. 4. To run the Full Diagnostic Scan: 1. Click Full Diagnostic Scan. 3. To stop the scan, click Cancel. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Note: Other Intel SSD Toolbox options (such as the home screen or SMART Details screen) may be accessed while the scan is running, but no other tests (such as Intel SSD Optimizer or Quick Diagnostic Scan) may be started. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 20 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US View the progress on the home screen. 2. Select the Intel SSD on the screen.
Click Run. 4. To run the Full Diagnostic Scan: 1. Click Full Diagnostic Scan. 3. To stop the scan, click Cancel. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Note: Other Intel SSD Toolbox options (such as the home screen or SMART Details screen) may be accessed while the scan is running, but no other tests (such as Intel SSD Optimizer or Quick Diagnostic Scan) may be started. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 20 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US View the progress on the home screen. 2. Select the Intel SSD on the screen.