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SM961 NVMe SAMSUNG 1024GB.CXA75D0Q: This is samsung drive.

Specification

Information

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

ITEM INFORMATION SM961 NVMe SAMSUNG 1024GB.CXA75D0Q
Vendor ID Lite-On Technology Corporation (0x14a4) Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (0x144d)
Device ID 0x2300 0xa804
Controller Vendor ID Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (0x1b4b) Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (0x144d)
Controller Device ID 0x1093 0xa801
Model Number CA3-8D256-Q11 NVMe LITEON 256GB SM961 NVMe SAMSUNG 1024GB
Firmware Revision C48110B CXA75D0Q
PCIe Link Gen3 x4 Gen3 x4
L1 substates Yes Yes
NVMe Specification Version 1.2 1.2
LBA size (byte) 512 512
Capacity (GB) 256 1024
Number of Namespaces 1 1
Maximum Data Transfer Size (KBytes) 128 32768
Write Speed (MB/s, up to) 810 1400
Read Speed (MB/s, up to) 2300 2800
Host Memory Buffer Preferred Size (KBytes) 0 0
Host Memory Buffer Minimum Size (KBytes) 0 0
Write Speed (MB/s, HMB enabled, up to) 810 1400
Read Speed (MB/s, HMB enabled, up to) 2300 2800
page-tag-nand 3D-TLC 3D-TLC
page-tag-vendor LiteON Samsung
page-tag-controller Marvell Samsung
page-tag-form-factor 2280 2280
Warrenty (year) 5 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 SM961 NVMe SAMSUNG 1024GB.CXA75D0Q
Admin Queue Size 128 128
Maximum Queue Entries Supported 4096 16384
Number of Queues 16 8
Arbitration Mechanism Supported Round Robin and Weighted Round Robin with Urgent Priority Class Arbitration Round Robin and Weighted Round Robin with Urgent Priority Class Arbitration

Supported Commands

List basic device information.

ADMIN COMMAND OPCODE COMMAND NAME SM961 NVMe SAMSUNG 1024GB.CXA75D0Q
0x0 Delete I/O Submission Queue Delete I/O Submission Queue
0x1 Create I/O Submission Queue Create I/O Submission Queue
0x2 Get Log Page Get Log Page
0x4 Delete I/O Completion Queue Delete I/O Completion Queue
0x5 Create I/O Completion Queue Create I/O Completion Queue
0x6 Identify Identify
0x8 Abort Abort
0x9 Set Features Set Features
0xa Get Features Get Features
0xc Asynchronous Event Request Asynchronous Event Request
0x10 Firmware Commit Firmware Commit
0x11 Firmware Image Download Firmware Image Download
0x80 Format NVM Format NVM
0x81 Security Send Security Send
0x82 Security Receive Security Receive

List basic device information.

IO COMMAND OPCODE COMMAND NAME SM961 NVMe SAMSUNG 1024GB.CXA75D0Q
0x0 Flush Flush
0x1 Write Write
0x2 Read Read
0x4 Write Uncorrectable Write Uncorrectable
0x5 Compare Compare
0x8 Write Zeroes Write Zeroes
0x9 Dataset Management 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 SM961 NVMe SAMSUNG 1024GB.CXA75D0Q
Number of Power States 5 5
Power State #0 8.00 W 6.80 W
Power State #1 4.50 W 4.90 W
Power State #2 3.00 W 3.20 W
Power State #3 0.07 W, non operational 0.04 W, non operational
Power State #4 0.01 W, non operational 0.01 W, non operational
Thermal Management Temperature 1 (°C) 76 -273
Thermal Management Temperature 2 (°C) 81 -273

Health

SMART data before tests.

HEALTH ITEM DATA SM961 NVMe SAMSUNG 1024GB.CXA75D0Q
Composite Temperature (°C) 42 39
Available Spare (%) 100 100
Percentage Used (%) 32 1
Data Units Read (LBA) 210663880000 15067602000
Data Units Write (LBA) 94842263000 29623483000
Host Read Commands 15313664457 762039617
Host Write Commands 5962689687 591647313
Controller Busy Time (minutes) 15064 1835
Power On Hours (hours) 1103 68
Power Cycles 3672 98
Unsafe Shutdowns 159 45
Media and Data Integrity Errors 203 0

Function

Performance

Reliability