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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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...specifications and product descriptions at any features or instructions marked "reserved" or "undefined." Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL PRODUCTS. NO LICENSE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY ESTOPPEL OR OTHERWISE, TO ANY ...INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IS GRANTED BY THIS DOCUMENT. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide ii September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US The information here is subject to them. Intel reserves these for future definition and shall have no responsibility whatsoever...
...specifications and product descriptions at any features or instructions marked "reserved" or "undefined." Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL PRODUCTS. NO LICENSE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY ESTOPPEL OR OTHERWISE, TO ANY ...INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IS GRANTED BY THIS DOCUMENT. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide ii September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US The information here is subject to them. Intel reserves these for future definition and shall have no responsibility whatsoever...
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... SMART Attributes ...15 Viewing System Information 15 4. Viewing Basic Drive Information 8 Model ...8 Firmware Version...8 Serial Number ...8 Drive Health...8 Estimated Life Remaining ...9 Drive Capacity...9 Identifying NAND Lithography of an Intel SSD 9 Identifying the Security State of an Intel SSD 10 3. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Contents 1. Getting Started ...5 About Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox 5 Using the Home Screen ...6 Scanning for Firmware...
... SMART Attributes ...15 Viewing System Information 15 4. Viewing Basic Drive Information 8 Model ...8 Firmware Version...8 Serial Number ...8 Drive Health...8 Estimated Life Remaining ...9 Drive Capacity...9 Identifying NAND Lithography of an Intel SSD 9 Identifying the Security State of an Intel SSD 10 3. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Contents 1. Getting Started ...5 About Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox 5 Using the Home Screen ...6 Scanning for Firmware...
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Troubleshooting...30 Troubleshooting - Intel® SSD Optimizer 31 10. Obtaining More Information 32 Related Publications ...32 Reference Documents ...32 Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide iv September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 8. Drives...30 Troubleshooting - Firmware Update 30 Troubleshooting - 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.
Troubleshooting...30 Troubleshooting - Intel® SSD Optimizer 31 10. Obtaining More Information 32 Related Publications ...32 Reference Documents ...32 Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide iv September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 8. Drives...30 Troubleshooting - Firmware Update 30 Troubleshooting - 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.
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Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Getting Started About Intel® Solid-State 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...
Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Getting Started About Intel® Solid-State 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...
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... a task on the selected drive. (Available tasks vary depending on Intel SSDs. Drive Summary information appears for the selected drive. (Information varies depending on the home screen: Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 6 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Click For more details. If your system. See Identifying a Drive for drives and refresh all Intel® Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs) and...
... a task on the selected drive. (Available tasks vary depending on Intel SSDs. Drive Summary information appears for the selected drive. (Information varies depending on the home screen: Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 6 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Click For more details. If your system. See Identifying a Drive for drives and refresh all Intel® Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs) and...
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... RAID volume members have limited functionality in a RAID volume). Identifying a Drive Information displayed for more information. Move the mouse over the drive to scroll through and select a drive. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Scanning for Drives Upon startup, Intel SSD Toolbox scans for identifying partition types. Drives containing partitions If a drive contains a partition, the partition appears as a separate...
... RAID volume members have limited functionality in a RAID volume). Identifying a Drive Information displayed for more information. Move the mouse over the drive to scroll through and select a drive. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Scanning for Drives Upon startup, Intel SSD Toolbox scans for identifying partition types. Drives containing partitions If a drive contains a partition, the partition appears as a separate...
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... to show detailed model information. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 8 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US The Intel SSD Toolbox Firmware Update option does not update firmware on an Intel® X25-E Solid-State Drive or Intel® Solid-State Drive 510 Series, use the Intel® SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool available at http://www.intel.com/go/ssdfirmware. Drive Health On the home screen...
... to show detailed model information. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 8 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US The Intel SSD Toolbox Firmware Update option does not update firmware on an Intel® X25-E Solid-State Drive or Intel® Solid-State Drive 510 Series, use the Intel® SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool available at http://www.intel.com/go/ssdfirmware. Drive Health On the home screen...
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.... 2. Scroll down and view Model Number (Word 27-46): • If the number contains G1, the Intel SSD is reported for NAND flash management and maintenance purposes. Select the Intel SSD on the selected Intel SSD. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Estimated Life Remaining On the home screen, Estimated Life Remaining reports the estimated...
.... 2. Scroll down and view Model Number (Word 27-46): • If the number contains G1, the Intel SSD is reported for NAND flash management and maintenance purposes. Select the Intel SSD on the selected Intel SSD. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Estimated Life Remaining On the home screen, Estimated Life Remaining reports the estimated...
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Select the Intel SSD on the home screen. 2. Scroll down and view Security Status (Word 128). • Bit 0 indicates the Security Mode feature set to one , the security ... enabled. • Bit 2 indicates security locked. If set to one , security is locked. • Bit 3 indicates security frozen. 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. If set supported. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 10 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Click...
Select the Intel SSD on the home screen. 2. Scroll down and view Security Status (Word 128). • Bit 0 indicates the Security Mode feature set to one , the security ... enabled. • Bit 2 indicates security locked. If set to one , security is locked. • Bit 3 indicates security frozen. 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. If set supported. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 10 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Click...
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... to one , the security is enabled. • Bit 2 indicates security locked. If set to one , security is frozen. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 11 If set to one , the security is supported. • Bit 1 indicates security enabled. The information displayed is generated by an ATA...
... to one , the security is enabled. • Bit 2 indicates security locked. If set to one , security is frozen. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 11 If set to one , the security is supported. • Bit 1 indicates security enabled. The information displayed is generated by an ATA...
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... to spin up. (Since an SSD has no moving parts, this attribute reports a fixed Raw value of zero (0) and a fixed Normalized value of zero (0). Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Exporting Drive Details On the home screen, click Export to save SMART attributes, IDENTIFY DEVICE information data, and system information for the selected...
... to spin up. (Since an SSD has no moving parts, this attribute reports a fixed Raw value of zero (0) and a fixed Normalized value of zero (0). Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Exporting Drive Details On the home screen, click Export to save SMART attributes, IDENTIFY DEVICE information data, and system information for the selected...
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...hard disk drives can experience only a finite number of these events, and therefore, must be recovered using Error Correction Code (ECC). Available Reserved Space AA Reports the number of program fails. SATA Downshift Count B7 The count of the number of times SATA interface selected...status of the Device Initiated Power Management (DIPM) feature affects the number of the device. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 13 The threshold value for this attribute is 90. Temperature - Case temperature is calculated based on , the...
...hard disk drives can experience only a finite number of these events, and therefore, must be recovered using Error Correction Code (ECC). Available Reserved Space AA Reports the number of program fails. SATA Downshift Count B7 The count of the number of times SATA interface selected...status of the Device Initiated Power Management (DIPM) feature affects the number of the device. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 13 The threshold value for this attribute is 90. Temperature - Case temperature is calculated based on , the...
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... Host Read/Write Ratio E3 The percentage of the Timed Workload Timer, attribute E4). The threshold value for this workload timer. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 14 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US The normalized value is the current temperature. The raw value increases by ... direct from E9 100 to 1 as a percentage of the maximum rated cycles. Available Reserved Space E8 Reports the number of encountered SATA interface Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) errors. Media Wearout Indicator Reports the number of the SSD. Total LBAs Read F2 Counts sectors read...
... Host Read/Write Ratio E3 The percentage of the Timed Workload Timer, attribute E4). The threshold value for this workload timer. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 14 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US The normalized value is the current temperature. The raw value increases by ... direct from E9 100 to 1 as a percentage of the maximum rated cycles. Available Reserved Space E8 Reports the number of encountered SATA interface Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) errors. Media Wearout Indicator Reports the number of the SSD. Total LBAs Read F2 Counts sectors read...
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... opened in 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 Information The...
... opened in 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 Information The...
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... is not implemented. To identify your Intel SSD, see Identifying NAND Lithography of an Intel SSD. You must use and can manually run the Intel SSD Optimizer because Windows 7 natively implements Trim functionality. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 16 September 2011 Order...for non-RAID configurations only. Intel® SSD Optimizer Requirements The Intel SSD Optimizer runs on Intel SSDs only. 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-...
... is not implemented. To identify your Intel SSD, see Identifying NAND Lithography of an Intel SSD. You must use and can manually run the Intel SSD Optimizer because Windows 7 natively implements Trim functionality. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 16 September 2011 Order...for non-RAID configurations only. Intel® SSD Optimizer Requirements The Intel SSD Optimizer runs on Intel SSDs only. 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-...
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... Intel SSDs by clicking All Supported Intel SSDs. The Intel SSD Optimizer cannot run on Intel SSDs in a RAID configuration but is encrypted, click Accept to continue running the Intel SSD Optimizer on the selected SSD. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Manually Running the Intel...174; SSD Optimizer Note the following before setting a schedule: • Make sure Intel SSD Optimizer sessions are scheduled to run ...
... Intel SSDs by clicking All Supported Intel SSDs. The Intel SSD Optimizer cannot run on Intel SSDs in a RAID configuration but is encrypted, click Accept to continue running the Intel SSD Optimizer on the selected SSD. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Manually Running the Intel...174; SSD Optimizer Note the following before setting a schedule: • Make sure Intel SSD Optimizer sessions are scheduled to run ...
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... or encryption on the selected SSD. Upon completion, the icon disappears. Click Schedule. 3. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 5. Review the requirement text and click Schedule. See Troubleshooting - Intel SSD Optimizer for more information. 7. The Intel SSD Optimizer runs at the scheduled time. Click Intel SSD Optimizer. 2. Click Remove next to the schedule you the...
... or encryption on the selected SSD. Upon completion, the icon disappears. Click Schedule. 3. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 5. Review the requirement text and click Schedule. See Troubleshooting - Intel SSD Optimizer for more information. 7. The Intel SSD Optimizer runs at the scheduled time. Click Intel SSD Optimizer. 2. Click Remove next to the schedule you the...
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...The scan requires: • A minimum of 5 GB of free space to run . • A partitioned area to create and validate random data. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Running Diagnostic Scans Quick Diagnostic Scan Run the Quick Diagnostic scan to test the basic functionality of the...hour or more to complete and performs two tests: • Read Scan - September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 19 Note: Other Intel SSD Toolbox options (such as the home screen or SMART Details screen) may be accessed while the scan is running...
...The scan requires: • A minimum of 5 GB of free space to run . • A partitioned area to create and validate random data. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Running Diagnostic Scans Quick Diagnostic Scan Run the Quick Diagnostic scan to test the basic functionality of the...hour or more to complete and performs two tests: • Read Scan - September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 19 Note: Other Intel SSD Toolbox options (such as the home screen or SMART Details screen) may be accessed while the scan is running...
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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. Click Full Diagnostic Scan. 3. Select the Intel SSD on the screen. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 20 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US To stop the scan, click Cancel. View the progress on the home screen. 2. To run the Full Diagnostic Scan: 1. Click Run. 4.
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. Click Full Diagnostic Scan. 3. Select the Intel SSD on the screen. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 20 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US To stop the scan, click Cancel. View the progress on the home screen. 2. To run the Full Diagnostic Scan: 1. Click Run. 4.