This is first 2230 HMB NVMe SSD.

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 Toshiba America Info Systems (0x1179)
Device ID 0x113
Controller Vendor ID Toshiba America Info Systems (0x1179)
Controller Device ID 0x1
Model Number KBG30ZMS256G NVMe TOSHIBA 256GB
Firmware Revision ADDA0102
PCIe Link Gen3 x2
L1 substates Yes
NVMe Specification Version 1.2
LBA size (byte) 512
Capacity (GB) 0
Number of Namespaces 1
Maximum Data Transfer Size (KBytes) 2048
Write Speed (MB/s, up to) 1000
Read Speed (MB/s, up to) 1600
Host Memory Buffer Preferred Size (KBytes) 38912
Host Memory Buffer Minimum Size (KBytes) 10240
Write Speed (MB/s, HMB enabled, up to) 820
Read Speed (MB/s, HMB enabled, up to) 1500
page-tag-nand 3D-TLC
page-tag-vendor Toshiba
page-tag-controller Toshiba
page-tag-form-factor 2230
Warrenty (year) 5
TBW (TByte) 72

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 128
Number of Queues 31
Arbitration Mechanism Supported Round Robin Arbitration

Supported Commands

List basic device information.

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
0x10 Firmware Commit
0x11 Firmware Image Download
0x14 Device Self-test
0x80 Format NVM
0x81 Security Send
0x82 Security Receive

List basic device information.

IO COMMAND OPCODE COMMAND NAME
0x0 Flush
0x1 Write
0x2 Read
0x4 Write Uncorrectable
0x5 Compare
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 3.30 W
Power State #1 2.70 W
Power State #2 2.30 W
Power State #3 0.05 W, non operational
Power State #4 0.01 W, non operational
Thermal Management Temperature 1 (°C) -273
Thermal Management Temperature 2 (°C) -273

Health

SMART data before tests.

HEALTH ITEM DATA
Composite Temperature (°C) 55
Available Spare (%) 100
Percentage Used (%) 5
Data Units Read (LBA) 6528574000
Data Units Write (LBA) 4602036000
Host Read Commands 203987339
Host Write Commands 25207644
Controller Busy Time (minutes) 1542
Power On Hours (hours) 42
Power Cycles 42
Unsafe Shutdowns 17
Media and Data Integrity Errors 28

Function

Performance

Reliability