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..., this version of firmware installed 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. Firmware Version On the home screen, Firmware Version shows the version of the Intel SSD Toolbox, the following icon appears next to show detailed model information...
..., this version of firmware installed 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. Firmware Version On the home screen, Firmware Version shows the version of the Intel SSD Toolbox, the following icon appears next to show detailed model information...
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... signaling rate due to -End Error Detection Count B8 Reports number of erase fail. SATA Downshift Count B7 The count of the number of reserve blocks remaining. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 13 This type of hours reported. 09 • If DIPM is... Count AC The raw value shows total count of errors encountered during Logical Block Address (LBA) tag checks within the SSD data path. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Start/Stop Count 04 For Intel SSDs, reports a fixed value of allowable erase fails.
... signaling rate due to -End Error Detection Count B8 Reports number of erase fail. SATA Downshift Count B7 The count of the number of reserve blocks remaining. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 13 This type of hours reported. 09 • If DIPM is... Count AC The raw value shows total count of errors encountered during Logical Block Address (LBA) tag checks within the SSD data path. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Start/Stop Count 04 For Intel SSDs, reports a fixed value of allowable erase fails.
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... availability of reserve blocks remaining. Timed Workload, Media Wear E2 Measures the wear seen by the SSD (since reset of encountered SATA interface Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) errors. Total LBAs Written F1 Counts sectors written by the host. Note: To reissue the ...cumulative number of unsafe (unclean) shutdown events over the life of minutes) since starting this attribute is 10 percent availability. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 14 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Device Internal C2 Reports internal temperature of sectors written by the host...
... availability of reserve blocks remaining. Timed Workload, Media Wear E2 Measures the wear seen by the SSD (since reset of encountered SATA interface Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) errors. Total LBAs Written F1 Counts sectors written by the host. Note: To reissue the ...cumulative number of unsafe (unclean) shutdown events over the life of minutes) since starting this attribute is 10 percent availability. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 14 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Device Internal C2 Reports internal temperature of sectors written by the host...
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...lost during or after a firmware update on an Intel® X25-E Solid-State Drive or Intel® Solid-State Drive 510 Series, use during this version of the Intel SSD Toolbox. Back up the Intel SSD. Reboot your Intel SSD contains an older version of firmware than the... updates the selected Intel SSD to open applications except Intel SSD Toolbox. 3. Intel is available, download and install Intel SSD Toolbox. 6. Click Firmware Update. 3. Minimize system use the Intel® SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool available at the bottom of the selected Intel SSD (on the...
...lost during or after a firmware update on an Intel® X25-E Solid-State Drive or Intel® Solid-State Drive 510 Series, use during this version of the Intel SSD Toolbox. Back up the Intel SSD. Reboot your Intel SSD contains an older version of firmware than the... updates the selected Intel SSD to open applications except Intel SSD Toolbox. 3. Intel is available, download and install Intel SSD Toolbox. 6. Click Firmware Update. 3. Minimize system use the Intel® SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool available at the bottom of the selected Intel SSD (on the...
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...might take to complete and is the most frequently used to and from the disk. appears next to your system as a drive for managing SATA link power. Superfetch/Prefetch is not needed on the home screen: To run the System Tuner: 1. ReadyBoost is not needed... ReadyBoost is available and can be enabled on Intel SSDs for use with the selected Intel SSD. Click System Tuner. It is not installed. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 22 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Tuning your System Running System ...
...might take to complete and is the most frequently used to and from the disk. appears next to your system as a drive for managing SATA link power. Superfetch/Prefetch is not needed on the home screen: To run the System Tuner: 1. ReadyBoost is not needed... ReadyBoost is available and can be enabled on Intel SSDs for use with the selected Intel SSD. Click System Tuner. It is not installed. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 22 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Tuning your System Running System ...
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...systems in Windows 7: 1. To manually disable DIPM in Microsoft Windows* 7. Change the Attributes value to optimize your system for managing SATA link power. HIPM/DIPM option. 12. Start the Registry Editor (open the Windows Start menu and type regedit in the right... Control Panel and select Power Management or Power Options. 8. Click OK. Click Change advanced power settings. 10. Click OK. 6. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Changing System Tuner Settings System Tuner can configure services to 1. 5. Navigate to Balanced. 9. Click Change plan settings next...
...systems in Windows 7: 1. To manually disable DIPM in Microsoft Windows* 7. Change the Attributes value to optimize your system for managing SATA link power. HIPM/DIPM option. 12. Start the Registry Editor (open the Windows Start menu and type regedit in the right... Control Panel and select Power Management or Power Options. 8. Click OK. Click Change advanced power settings. 10. Click OK. 6. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Changing System Tuner Settings System Tuner can configure services to 1. 5. Navigate to Balanced. 9. Click Change plan settings next...
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... rendering data remnants virtually unrecoverable. These steps logically delete a partition, which makes all data on an Intel SSD. Exit the Windows Disk Management screen. 7. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Performing a Secure Erase About Secure Erase Secure Erase permanently deletes all data unavailable on the.... • The system must allow access to the SATA power cable connected to eliminate not only the user data section of the data on an Intel SSD for help with a partition. • All drive passwords must be removed from the SSD. After deleting the...
... rendering data remnants virtually unrecoverable. These steps logically delete a partition, which makes all data on an Intel SSD. Exit the Windows Disk Management screen. 7. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Performing a Secure Erase About Secure Erase Secure Erase permanently deletes all data unavailable on the.... • The system must allow access to the SATA power cable connected to eliminate not only the user data section of the data on an Intel SSD for help with a partition. • All drive passwords must be removed from the SSD. After deleting the...
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... Erase Run Secure Erase to permanently delete all partitions on your system configuration, this state. Click Secure Erase. 5. b. Once the Intel SSD is in the SECURITY FREEZE LOCK state. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 28 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US If a Secure Frozen Warning... quickly to make sure the system continues to quickly remove and reconnect the SATA power cable. 6. The Intel SSD Toolbox rescans the system for drives. To remove the SECURITY FREEZE LOCK state and continue with Step 6. After unplugging and plugging in the SSD, click...
... Erase Run Secure Erase to permanently delete all partitions on your system configuration, this state. Click Secure Erase. 5. b. Once the Intel SSD is in the SECURITY FREEZE LOCK state. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 28 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US If a Secure Frozen Warning... quickly to make sure the system continues to quickly remove and reconnect the SATA power cable. 6. The Intel SSD Toolbox rescans the system for drives. To remove the SECURITY FREEZE LOCK state and continue with Step 6. After unplugging and plugging in the SSD, click...
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All Intel SSDs are supported except: • Intel® X25-E Solid-State Drive • Intel® Solid-State Drive 510 Series For these SSDs, use the Intel® SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool located at: http://www.intel.com/go/ssdfirmware Note: The Firmware Update option in the system does not appear on the home screen: • Check power to the drive • Check the SATA cable...
All Intel SSDs are supported except: • Intel® X25-E Solid-State Drive • Intel® Solid-State Drive 510 Series For these SSDs, use the Intel® SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool located at: http://www.intel.com/go/ssdfirmware Note: The Firmware Update option in the system does not appear on the home screen: • Check power to the drive • Check the SATA cable...
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... information on Intel Solid-State Drives, go to http://www.intel.com/go/ssd. Reference Documents Document Document No./Location ATA-7 Volume 1 Specification, April 2004 http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/D1532v1r4bAT_Attachment_with_Packet_Interface_-_7_Volume_1.pdf SATA Rev 2.6 Specification, February 2007 http://www.sata-io.org Revision History Date September 2011 Revision 001 Initial release Description Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox...
... information on Intel Solid-State Drives, go to http://www.intel.com/go/ssd. Reference Documents Document Document No./Location ATA-7 Volume 1 Specification, April 2004 http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/D1532v1r4bAT_Attachment_with_Packet_Interface_-_7_Volume_1.pdf SATA Rev 2.6 Specification, February 2007 http://www.sata-io.org Revision History Date September 2011 Revision 001 Initial release Description Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox...