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Specification

Information

Here is some basic information of this SSD in the following table, such as its model name and some identifier.

ITEM INFORMATION
Vendor ID Lite-On Technology Corporation (0x14a4)
Device ID 0x2300
Controller Vendor ID Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (0x1b4b)
Controller Device ID 0x1093
Model Number CA3-8D256-Q11 NVMe LITEON 256GB
Firmware Revision C48110B
PCIe Link Gen3 x4
L1 substates Yes
NVMe Specification Version 1.2
LBA size (byte) 512
Capacity (GB) 256
Number of Namespaces 1
Maximum Data Transfer Size (KBytes) 128
Write Speed (MB/s, up to) 810
Read Speed (MB/s, up to) 2300
Host Memory Buffer Preferred Size (KBytes) 0
Host Memory Buffer Minimum Size (KBytes) 0
Write Speed (MB/s, HMB enabled, up to) 810
Read Speed (MB/s, HMB enabled, up to) 2300
page-tag-nand 3D-TLC
page-tag-vendor LiteON
page-tag-controller Marvell
page-tag-form-factor 2280
Warrenty (year) 5

NVMe hosts and devices communicate commands and completions data in Submittion and Competion Queues. Queue is the most essential data structure defined by NVMe specification.

INFORMATION
Admin Queue Size 128
Maximum Queue Entries Supported 4096
Number of Queues 16
Arbitration Mechanism Supported Round Robin and Weighted Round Robin with Urgent Priority Class Arbitration

Supported Commands

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ADMIN COMMAND OPCODE COMMAND NAME
0x0 Delete I/O Submission Queue
0x1 Create I/O Submission Queue
0x2 Get Log Page
0x4 Delete I/O Completion Queue
0x5 Create I/O Completion Queue
0x6 Identify
0x8 Abort
0x9 Set Features
0xa Get Features
0xc Asynchronous Event Request
0xd Namespace Management
0x10 Firmware Commit
0x11 Firmware Image Download
0x15 Namespace Attachment
0x80 Format NVM
0x81 Security Send
0x82 Security Receive
0xfc Vendor specific
0xfd Vendor specific
0xfe Vendor specific

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IO COMMAND OPCODE COMMAND NAME
0x0 Flush
0x1 Write
0x2 Read
0x4 Write Uncorrectable
0x5 Compare
0x8 Write Zeroes
0x9 Dataset Management

Thermal

SSD is becoming faster, and then hotter. Fundementally, hot is bad to the data in NAND media, and so it is necessary to control and monitor temperature.

ITEM DATA
Number of Power States 5
Power State #0 8.00 W
Power State #1 4.50 W
Power State #2 3.00 W
Power State #3 0.07 W, non operational
Power State #4 0.01 W, non operational
Thermal Management Temperature 1 (°C) 76
Thermal Management Temperature 2 (°C) 81

Health

SMART data before tests.

HEALTH ITEM DATA
Composite Temperature (°C) 42
Available Spare (%) 100
Percentage Used (%) 32
Data Units Read (LBA) 210663880000
Data Units Write (LBA) 94842263000
Host Read Commands 15313664457
Host Write Commands 5962689687
Controller Busy Time (minutes) 15064
Power On Hours (hours) 1103
Power Cycles 3672
Unsafe Shutdowns 159
Media and Data Integrity Errors 203

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