Contec PC-SSD-S Owner's manual

Brand: Contec

Model: PC-SSD-S

Type: Owner's manual

1 PC-SSD-S Series

2.5 inch Solid State Drive (SATA Type)

PC-SSD2000S, PC-SSD4000S, PC-SSD8000S

User’s Guide

CONTEC CO.,LTD.

Thank you for purchasing the CONTEC PC-SSD-S Series. This product is a solid state drive in

accordance with 2.5-inch SATA standard. Please use this product in accordance with the procedures

described in this document.

Product Configuration

- Product …1

- User’s Guide (this booklet) …1

- Mounting screws…1 set (M3 x 6mm, M3 nylon washers 4pcs)

- Warranty Certificate …1

- Serial number 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.

DANG

DANGER indicates an imminently hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will

result in death or serious injury.

ING

WARNING indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could

result in death or serious injury.

CAUTION

CAUTION indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, may

result in minor or moderate injury or in property damage.

Handling Precautions

WARNING

- 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.

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UTI

- Use only the mounting screws (M3 x 6) provided with the product. Longer screws may damage

the interior of the product.

- 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 contents of this document may be changed in the future without prior 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 statement, CONTEC assumes no responsibility for any errors that may

appear in this document or for any results of using the product.

- PC-SSD-S 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.

- 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 not formatted. Please be sure to format before use.

FCC PART15 Class B Notice

NOTE:

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to

Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful

interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency

energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to

radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular

installation.

If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by

turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the

following measures:

-- Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

-- Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

-- Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

-- Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

WARNING TO USER

Changes or modifications not expressly approved the manufacturer can void the user’s authority to operate this

equipment.

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Features

- 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.

- Using SLC (Single Level Cell) NAND flash memory provides reliability and writing speed as well as write

endurance that are superior to those of MLC (Multi Level Cell), making it suitable for industrial applications.

- By eliminating a rotating or moving part, power consumption is reduced to approximately 1/3 *1 of that of hard

disk drive.

- Normaliz

ing

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, the power supply is retained for several milliseconds by the

internal power protection circuit, resulting in strong resistance against power shutoff.

- 15-bits correction/512 bytes error correction feature ensures high data reliability.

- Auto recovery feature ensures automated data recovery from data errors that occurs with repeated reading.

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

current number of write cycles. This enables prediction of the SSD life span in user environment.

*1: PC-HDD40S: Comparison with 1900mW at read/write

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Hardware Specifications

Item

Specifications

PC-SSD2000S

PC-SSD4000S

PC-SSD8000S

Memory

capacity

LBA

1920MB

3840MB

7680MB

CHS

1919MB

3839MB

7679MB

Host interface

Serial ATA standard Rev.2.0 (Gen2: 3.0Gbps),

Serial ATA standard Rev.1.0 (Gen1: 1.5Gbps)

Read

40MByte/sec

Write

15MByte/sec

NAND Flash memory life span

50,000 cycles

Write endurance *1

384,000,000 cycles

768,000,000 cycles

1,536,000,000 cycles

Rated voltage

5VDC ±10%

Consumed power

Sleep

150mW (Typ.)

(read) / (write)

750mW (Max.) / 750mW (Max.)

Ambient temperature

(Operation, Storage)

-40 - 85ºC

Storage temperature (Operation)

0 - 90%RH (No condensation)

Corrosive gases

None

Vibration (Operation)

15G or less

Shock (Non operation)

1500G or less

Physical dimensions (mm)

69.85(W) x 100(D) x 9.50(H)

Weight

About 70g

*1 Refers to the allowed number of write cycles when rewriting under 512KB.

BIOS Setup Parameters

IDE Parameters

Products

Size (MB)

Cylinder

Head

Sector

PC-SSD2000S

1919

3900

PC-SSD4000S

3839

7801

PC-SSD8000S

7679

15603

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About write endurance

PC-SSD-S series have a write endurance which limits the number of times each memory may be

written, due to the characteristic of the memory that is used. Write endurance can be calculated by the

following formula as a reference value:

Write endurance (cycles) =

Total capacity (MB) x 50,000 (cycles) / Size of file (MB)

Example1: When the file of 1MB is made for PC-SSD-2000P, and it rewrites it once a second.

Write endurance = 1920MB x 50,000 cycles / 1MB = 96,000,000 (cycles)

Longevity = 96,000,000 / (3600 x 24 x 365) ≅ 3 (year)

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

About S.M.A.R.T.

A self-diagnosis program "SMART" that can obtain the S.M.A.R.T information in a SSD is available

for download at TDK website (http://www.tdk.co.jp). Following information can be obtained using

this program:

1. Number of flash memory chips mounted inside SSD, and the total number of blocks

2. Total number of write cycles on SSD

3. Number of write cycles of the block where rewriting occurs most frequently

4. Number of write cycles of the block where rewriting occurs least frequently

5. Number of write cycles of all the blocks (10 step histogram)

The NAND type flash memory’s life span is 50,000 cycles.

The number of write cycles for each block

can be determined, making it possible to predict life span.

TDK website:

http://www.tdk.co.jp

At the SMART program download destination:

http://www.tdk.co.jp/memorycontroller/mem01000.htm

Requirement for SMART program:

Windows 2000/XP with VB6.0 runtime and MSFLXGRD.OCX component

(such as vb6rt330.exe)

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External Dimensions

Connector Pin Assignment

Signal

Function

I/O

Signal

Function

I/O

S1 AGND Analog Ground S2 RX+ RX+ Signal I

S3 RX- RX- Signal I S4 AGND Analog Ground

TX-

TX- Signal

TX+

TX+ Signal

AGND

Analog Ground

P1 N.C. P2 N.C.

P3 N.C. P4 DGND Digital Ground

DGND

Digital Ground

DGND

Digital Ground

+5V

+5VDC

+5V

+5VDC

P9 +5V +5VDC P10 N.C.

P11 N.C. P12 DGND Digital Ground

P13

N.C.

P14

N.C.

P15 N.C.

* DGND and AGND are connected internally.

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Limited One-Year Warranty

CONTEC Products are warranted by CONTEC CO., LTD to be free from defects in material and

workmanship for up to one year from the date of purchase by the original purchaser. Repair will be

free of charge only when this device is returned freight prepaid with a copy of the original invoice and a

Return Merchandise Authorization to the distributor or the CONTEC group office, from which it was

purchased. This warranty is not applicable for scratches or normal wear, but only for the electronic

circuitry and original boards. The warranty is not applicable if the device has been tampered with or

damaged through abuse, mistreatment, neglect, or unreasonable use, or if the original invoice is not

included, in which case repairs will be considered beyond the warranty policy.

How to Obtain Service

For replacement or repair, return the device freight prepaid, with a copy of the original invoice. Please

obtain a Return Merchandise Authorization Number (RMA) from the CONTEC group office where you

purchased before returning any product.

* No product will be accepted by CONTEC group without the RMA number.

Liability

The obligation of the warrantor is solely to repair or replace the product. In no event will the

warrantor be liable for any incidental or consequential damages due to such defect or consequences that

arise from inexperienced usage, misuse, or malfunction of this device.

PC-SSD-S Series User’s Guide

CONTEC CO., LTD. July 2015 Edition

3-9-31, Himesato, Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka 555-0025, Japan

Japanese http://www.contec.co.jp/

English http://www.contec.com/ NA00246 (LYKT073)

Chinese http://www.contec.com.cn/ 07172015_rev3 [10142009]

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

consent of CONTEC CO., LTD.

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