Contec CFS-32GBM-A Owner's manual

Brand: Contec

Model: CFS-32GBM-A

Type: Owner's manual

1.0-inch SATA CFast Card (MLC)

CFS-32GBM-A User’s Guide

CONTEC CO., LTD.

Thank you for purchasing the CFast cards, CFS-32GBM-A.

This product is a CFA standard CFast which is equipped with a MLC NAND flash.

Follow the procedures in this guide to use the product.

Product Configuration List

- CFast Card (CFS-32GBM-A) …1 - Product Registration Card & Warranty Certificate…1

- User’s Guide (this booklet) …1 - Serial No. Label…1

Disposal

When disposing of the product, follow the disposal procedures stipulated under the relevant laws and municipal

ordinances.

Safety Information

This document provides safety information using the following symbols to prevent accidents resulting in injury or death

and the destruction of equipment and resources. Understand the meanings of these labels to operate the equipment

safely.

DANGER indicates an imminently hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will result in death or serious injury.

WARNING indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in death or serious injury.

CAUTION indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, may result in minor or moderate injury or in

property damage.

Handling Precautions

- Do not modify the product. Doing so may cause fire, electric shock.

- If smoke or abnormal odor is detected, immediately turn off the PC and peripheral devices and unplug the power

cables.

- Never touch this product with wet hands. Doing so can short-circuit the product to cause fire, electric shock, and/or

failure.

- This is a precision product. Do not strike or bend the product.

Otherwise, the CF Memory Card may malfunction.

- Do not insert any foreign matter into the connector of this product. Doing so can break the connector.

- Before handling the product, touch a metal object around to release any built-up static charge from your body to

prevent the product from being damaged by static electricity.

- CFS-xxGBM-A Series is limited in the number of cycles they can be written (rewritten) to due to the nature of its

memory used. Note that the write life depends on the actual operating conditions.

- Do not turn off the power during disk access (writing). Doing so may break the data.

- Do not insert or remove a CFast card into/from a computer in operation.

- The product comes with a protective function that prevents the disk from damaging during an instantaneous stop but

this function is not designed to protect data written onto the disk. When protecting data, use it under the condition

which has no instantaneously stops.

- This product is designed to be plugged only in one orientation. Do not force it to be plugged in.

- No part of this document may be copied or reproduced in any form by any means without prior written consent of

CONTEC CO., LTD.

- The information in this document is subject to change without notice.

- All relevant issues have been considered in the preparation of this document. Should you notice an omission or any

questionable item in this document, please feel free to notify CONTEC CO., LTD.

- Regardless of the foregoing statements, CONTEC is not liable for any damages whatsoever (including damages for

loss of business profits) arising out of the use or inability to use this CONTEC product or the information contained

herein.

- This product is not formatted. Please be sure to format before use.

- Turn power on from ±0.3V. Capacitor is installed in CFast Card internally. When the power supply from the host

equipment becomes off, it is 1000ms over necessary until the internal voltage completely becomes 0V. The period

changes by customer’s system requirements.

- There is the case that the drive is damaged when power supply OFF is done while initializing the drive. Do not power

supply OFF in 30 seconds from power supply ON.

Features

- Equipped with a MLC NAND flash

- Conforming to the CFA (CompactFlash Association) standard

- Capable of partitioning internal memory

- Containing no rotating or moving part as in hard disk drives, thus best suited for applications which require high

environmental resistance (to temperature, humidity, vibration, shock) and for continuous operation for extended

periods of time.

- Never making any sound such as motor rotation sound or access noise during seeking, thus best suited for applications

which require complete silence.

- Normalizing the number of rewriting for all areas to reduce the unevenness so that long life is attained.

- When turning off the power during data writing, our special algorithm can help to resist being damaged by power loss.

It has passed severe power-loss tests.

- 42-bit correction/1KBytes error correction feature ensures high data reliability.

- S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is supported, making it possible to know the

current number of write cycles. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring and Analysis Reporting Technology) function monitors

drive health status and provides failure prediction for the drive. It can be used for preventive maintenance and minimize

customer exposure to possible data loss.

Specification

Item

Specification

Type

CFS-32GBM-A

Memory MLC NAND-type flash memory

Management block size *1 (unformatted) 30,144MB

Management block size

16MB

Bus interface

CFast

Host interface

Ser ial ATA Gen 2 3.0Gbps

PIO mode 0-4

Multiword DMA mode 0-2

Ultra DMA mode 0-6

ATA command set compatible

Read *2

200MByte/sec

Write *2 40MByte / sec

MTTF

706,813H

NAND Flash memory life span

2,000 cycles

Power voltage

3.3VDC±5%

Power

consumption

Idle

110mA (Typ.)

Read /Write (Sequential)

240mA (Typ.) / 270mA (Typ.)

Operating temperature

-25 - 85

Relative humidity

0 - 85%RH (No condensation)

External dimension (mm)

42.8(W) x 3.6(D) x 36.4(H)

Weight

*1: Capacity when shipped. The actual capacity (after formatting) in the user environment may be smaller than this value.

*2: An actual performance is different depending on use conditions.

External dimension

Side

Length [mm]

36.4

0.15

42.8

0.1

3.6 Max.

0.6±0.07

DANGER

WARNING

WAR NING

CAUTI

About write endurance

CFS-xxGBM-A series have a write endurance which limits the number of cycles each memory may be written, due to the

characteristic of the memory that is used. For the write endurance, use the calculations below to obtain an estimated value.

Write endurance (days) =

((Total capacity (KB) / Management page size (KB)) x 20,000 (cycles)

/ The number of management page to be rewritten per 1 cycle

Example1: When the file of 4MB is made for CFS-32GBM-A, and it rewrites it once per 10 seconds.

Write endurance = ((30,144,000 / 16) x 2,000)) / 250 = 15,072,000 (cycles)

Life = 15,072,000 / ((60/10) x 60 x 24 x 365) = 4.7 (years)

After all these are reference values, confirm its life span by the S.M.A.R.T.

Connector pin position list

Connector

CFast Connector

Pin No. Pin Name Pin No. Pin Name

PC1

CDI

GND

PC2

GND

RX+

PC3 DEVSLP S3 RX-

PC4

N.C.

GND

PC5

N.C.

TX-

PC6

N.C.

TX+

PC7

GND

PC8 LED1

PC9

N.C.

PC10

IO1

PC11 IO2

PC12 IO3

PC13

+3.3V

PC14

+3.3V

PC15 GND

PC16

GND

PC17

CDO

Pin Identification

Symbol

I/O

Function

RX+, RX-

Input

Differential signal A

TX+, TX-

Output

Differential signal B

CDI

CMOS Input

Card Detect In

CDO

CMOS Output

Card Detect Out

IO1

CMOS Input Power off detection signal

IO2

CMOS Output

Active Signal

IO3

CMOS Output

Life Detect Signal

CONTEC CO.,

LTD.

-9-31, Himesato, Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka 555-0025, Japan

August 2017 Edition

https://www.contec.com/

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08102017_rev4[11062015]

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