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... SMART Attributes...12 Exporting SMART Attributes ...15 Viewing System Information 15 4. 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 Diagnostic Scan ...19 Full Diagnostic...
... SMART Attributes...12 Exporting SMART Attributes ...15 Viewing System Information 15 4. 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 Diagnostic Scan ...19 Full Diagnostic...
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Drives...30 Troubleshooting - Intel® SSD Optimizer 31 10. Troubleshooting...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 Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 8. 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.
Drives...30 Troubleshooting - Intel® SSD Optimizer 31 10. Troubleshooting...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 Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 8. 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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...• 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) • Optimize the performance of an Intel SSD using Trim functionality (a command that allows an operating system to inform ...) • Run Quick and Full diagnostic scans to test the read and write functionality of an Intel SSD • Check and tune your system settings for optimal Intel SSD performance, power efficiency, and endurance • View your system information and hardware configuration, such as ...
...• 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) • Optimize the performance of an Intel SSD using Trim functionality (a command that allows an operating system to inform ...) • Run Quick and Full diagnostic scans to test the read and write functionality of an Intel SSD • Check and tune your system settings for optimal Intel SSD performance, power efficiency, and endurance • View your system information and hardware configuration, such as ...
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...-001US If updates or other drives (hard disk drives and non-Intel SSDs) installed in the Intel SSD Toolbox. See Identifying a Drive for the selected drive. (Information varies depending on Intel SSDs. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Using the Home Screen The Intel SSD Toolbox home screen shows all information displayed in your system. Drive Summary...
...-001US If updates or other drives (hard disk drives and non-Intel SSDs) installed in the Intel SSD Toolbox. See Identifying a Drive for the selected drive. (Information varies depending on Intel SSDs. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Using the Home Screen The Intel SSD Toolbox home screen shows all information displayed in your system. Drive Summary...
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Move the mouse over the drive to identify if it is the RAID volume (all available drives installed in the system including Intel SSDs, non-Intel SSDs, and hard disk drives (HDDs). See your system contains multiple drives, use the arrows to scroll through and select a drive. Identifying a ... Note: The total usable capacity of the drives to the left and right of an Intel SSD may be assigned a drive letter. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Scanning for Drives Upon startup, Intel SSD Toolbox scans for all drives in the RAID array) or a RAID volume member (a ...
Move the mouse over the drive to identify if it is the RAID volume (all available drives installed in the system including Intel SSDs, non-Intel SSDs, and hard disk drives (HDDs). See your system contains multiple drives, use the arrows to scroll through and select a drive. Identifying a ... Note: The total usable capacity of the drives to the left and right of an Intel SSD may be assigned a drive letter. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Scanning for Drives Upon startup, Intel SSD Toolbox scans for all drives in the RAID array) or a RAID volume member (a ...
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... 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. Firmware Version On the home...
... 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. Firmware Version On the home...
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...than the total physical capacity because a small portion of an Intel SSD: 1. Click Drive Details. 3. The estimation shown is based on the applied workload and is 25nm. Select the Intel SSD on the selected Intel SSD. Note: The Intel SSD Optimizer does not run on the home screen to date and...used and free space available on the home screen. 2. Note: The total usable capacity may vary. Identifying NAND Lithography of an Intel SSD To identify the NAND lithography of the capacity is displayed as a cache. Endurance calculations are based on the E9 SMART attribute. Drive...
...than the total physical capacity because a small portion of an Intel SSD: 1. Click Drive Details. 3. The estimation shown is based on the applied workload and is 25nm. Select the Intel SSD on the selected Intel SSD. Note: The Intel SSD Optimizer does not run on the home screen to date and...used and free space available on the home screen. 2. Note: The total usable capacity may vary. Identifying NAND Lithography of an Intel SSD To identify the NAND lithography of the capacity is displayed as a cache. Endurance calculations are based on the E9 SMART attribute. Drive...
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...is enabled. • Bit 2 indicates security locked. If set to one , security is locked. • Bit 3 indicates security frozen. Select the Intel SSD on the home screen. 2. See the ATA-7 Specification for more information. If set to one , the security is frozen. If set supported.... Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 10 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Identifying the Security State of an Intel SSD To identify the security state of an...
...is enabled. • Bit 2 indicates security locked. If set to one , security is locked. • Bit 3 indicates security frozen. Select the Intel SSD on the home screen. 2. See the ATA-7 Specification for more information. If set to one , the security is frozen. If set supported.... Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 10 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Identifying the Security State of an Intel SSD To identify the security state of an...
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... descriptions of drive information The following are commonly referenced values. For Intel SSDs, the model number contains reference to the home screen and click Refresh. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 11 Details shown for each...include: • Word Identifies the word(s) assigned to one , the security is locked. • Bit 3 indicates security frozen. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Obtaining Drive, SMART, and System Information Viewing Drive Details The Drive Details screen displays standard IDENTIFY...
... descriptions of drive information The following are commonly referenced values. For Intel SSDs, the model number contains reference to the home screen and click Refresh. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 11 Details shown for each...include: • Word Identifies the word(s) assigned to one , the security is locked. • Bit 3 indicates security frozen. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Obtaining Drive, SMART, and System Information Viewing Drive Details The Drive Details screen displays standard IDENTIFY...
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Viewing SMART Attributes The SMART Details screen shows Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes on the Intel SSD or other drive selected. Each drive operates under SMART Summary. 3. Click SMART Details under a predefined set of SMART attributes and ...The value of an attribute adjusted to a scale spanning typical increments of zero (0). Descriptions of these attributes. ID Attribute Spin Up Time 03 For Intel SSDs, reports a fixed value of 100 to 1, or 200 to each attribute, see the ATA specifications. The .csv file can use the drive ...
Viewing SMART Attributes The SMART Details screen shows Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes on the Intel SSD or other drive selected. Each drive operates under SMART Summary. 3. Click SMART Details under a predefined set of SMART attributes and ...The value of an attribute adjusted to a scale spanning typical increments of zero (0). Descriptions of these attributes. ID Attribute Spin Up Time 03 For Intel SSDs, reports a fixed value of 100 to 1, or 200 to each attribute, see the ATA specifications. The .csv file can use the drive ...
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... beginning at 100, shows the percent remaining of the device. The threshold value is 10 percent availability. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Start/Stop Count 04 For Intel SSDs, reports a fixed value of program fails. Uncorrectable Error Count BB The raw value shows the count of...a slumber state. • If DIPM is turned off cycles) over the life of allowable program fails. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 13 This type of these events, and therefore, must be recovered using Error Correction Code (ECC). ...
... beginning at 100, shows the percent remaining of the device. The threshold value is 10 percent availability. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide Start/Stop Count 04 For Intel SSDs, reports a fixed value of program fails. Uncorrectable Error Count BB The raw value shows the count of...a slumber state. • If DIPM is turned off cycles) over the life of allowable program fails. September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 13 This type of these events, and therefore, must be recovered using Error Correction Code (ECC). ...
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.... Total LBAs Read F2 Counts sectors read operations (since reset of sectors written by the SSD (since starting this attribute is the value direct from 0 to 100 percent availability of the SSD. Timed Workload Timer E4 Measures the elapsed time (number of minutes) since reset of the...). Timed Workload, Host Read/Write Ratio E3 The percentage 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. Temperature reading is 10 ...
.... Total LBAs Read F2 Counts sectors read operations (since reset of sectors written by the SSD (since starting this attribute is the value direct from 0 to 100 percent availability of the SSD. Timed Workload Timer E4 Measures the elapsed time (number of minutes) since reset of the...). Timed Workload, Host Read/Write Ratio E3 The percentage 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. Temperature reading is 10 ...
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... not wake up internal management space, thus eliminating the need to run the Intel SSD Optimizer because Windows 7 natively implements Trim functionality. 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 files from NAND...
... not wake up internal management space, thus eliminating the need to run the Intel SSD Optimizer because Windows 7 natively implements Trim functionality. 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 files from NAND...
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... the Intel SSD Optimizer if the Intel SSDs are in a RAID configuration. Click Schedule. See Troubleshooting - To schedule the Intel SSD Optimizer: 1. To 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. Manually run the Intel SSD Optimizer: 1. Click Intel SSD Optimizer. 4. The Intel SSD Optimizer starts. Review the text describing the Intel SSD Optimizer...
... the Intel SSD Optimizer if the Intel SSDs are in a RAID configuration. Click Schedule. See Troubleshooting - To schedule the Intel SSD Optimizer: 1. To 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. Manually run the Intel SSD Optimizer: 1. Click Intel SSD Optimizer. 4. The Intel SSD Optimizer starts. Review the text describing the Intel SSD Optimizer...
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... the requirement text and click Schedule. See Troubleshooting - 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. Upon completion, the icon disappears. Click Remove next to stop running the Intel SSD Optimizer on the selected SSD. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 5. If...
... the requirement text and click Schedule. See Troubleshooting - 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. Upon completion, the icon disappears. Click Remove next to stop running the Intel SSD Optimizer on the selected SSD. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 5. If...
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...to complete (depending on the amount of free space to run . • A partitioned area to create and validate random data. 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 ...data, writes the data to unused areas of free space to run . • A partitioned area to create and validate random data. Select the Intel SSD on the Intel SSD). The scan performs two tests: • Read Scan - The scan takes approximately three minutes to complete and performs two tests: • Read ...
...to complete (depending on the amount of free space to run . • A partitioned area to create and validate random data. 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 ...data, writes the data to unused areas of free space to run . • A partitioned area to create and validate random data. Select the Intel SSD on the Intel SSD). The scan performs two tests: • Read Scan - The scan takes approximately three minutes to complete and performs two tests: • Read ...
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View the progress on the home screen. 2. Click Run. 4. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 20 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US To run the Full Diagnostic Scan: 1. To stop the scan, click Cancel. Select the Intel SSD on the screen. 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.
View the progress on the home screen. 2. Click Run. 4. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 20 September 2011 Order Number: 325912-001US To run the Full Diagnostic Scan: 1. To stop the scan, click Cancel. Select the Intel SSD on the screen. 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.
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... to make sure no data is not responsible for any data loss that might occur during this release of the selected Intel SSD (on an Intel SSD. 2. Note: To update firmware on an Intel® X25-E Solid-State Drive or Intel® Solid-State Drive 510 Series, use during or after a firmware update on the home screen). 2.
... to make sure no data is not responsible for any data loss that might occur during this release of the selected Intel SSD (on an Intel SSD. 2. Note: To update firmware on an Intel® X25-E Solid-State Drive or Intel® Solid-State Drive 510 Series, use during or after a firmware update on the home screen). 2.
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... feature that can be disabled for optimal performance. • Device Initiated Power Management (DIPM) For Intel SSDs installed in mobile systems, DIPM is part of the selected Intel SSD. In Windows XP, ReadyBoost is not needed on the home screen. 2. The System Tuner displays ...Defragmenter Microsoft Windows Disk Defragmenter rearranges files stored on the System Tuner screen only if your system has an Intel® RST RAID volume configuration containing only Intel SSD RAID volume members. • Superfetch*/Prefetch In Microsoft Windows* 7 and Windows Vista*, Superfetch* tracks and...
... feature that can be disabled for optimal performance. • Device Initiated Power Management (DIPM) For Intel SSDs installed in mobile systems, DIPM is part of the selected Intel SSD. In Windows XP, ReadyBoost is not needed on the home screen. 2. The System Tuner displays ...Defragmenter Microsoft Windows Disk Defragmenter rearranges files stored on the System Tuner screen only if your system has an Intel® RST RAID volume configuration containing only Intel SSD RAID volume members. • Superfetch*/Prefetch In Microsoft Windows* 7 and Windows Vista*, Superfetch* tracks and...
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... the tasks in Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools. Scheduled Tasks is not scheduled to run) on the Intel SSD. Additionally, depending on the Intel SSD. In Windows* XP, this requires that you open Windows XP Scheduled Tasks and search for defrag.exe or other ... Tuner, perform these tips to help optimize performance of an Intel SSD: • Dual-drive systems (HDD + SSD) • SSD-only systems • Mobile systems with shock sensor • Intel SSDs in Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 3. Click Tune!...
... the tasks in Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools. Scheduled Tasks is not scheduled to run) on the Intel SSD. Additionally, depending on the Intel SSD. In Windows* XP, this requires that you open Windows XP Scheduled Tasks and search for defrag.exe or other ... Tuner, perform these tips to help optimize performance of an Intel SSD: • Dual-drive systems (HDD + SSD) • SSD-only systems • Mobile systems with shock sensor • Intel SSDs in Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools. Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox User Guide 3. Click Tune!...