SSD from Hynix.

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 SK hynix (0x1c5c)
Device ID 0x1527
Controller Vendor ID SK hynix (0x1c5c)
Controller Device ID 0x1527
Model Number PC401 NVMe SK hynix 256GB
Firmware Revision 80003E00
PCIe Link Gen3 x4
L1 substates Yes
NVMe Specification Version 1.2
LBA size (byte) 512
Capacity (GB) 0
Number of Namespaces 1
Maximum Data Transfer Size (KBytes) 128
Write Speed (MB/s, up to) 610
Read Speed (MB/s, up to) 2500
Host Memory Buffer Preferred Size (KBytes) 0
Host Memory Buffer Minimum Size (KBytes) 0
Write Speed (MB/s, HMB enabled, up to) 740
Read Speed (MB/s, HMB enabled, up to) 2500
page-tag-nand 3D-TLC
page-tag-vendor Hynix
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page-tag-form-factor 2280

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 512
Number of Queues 16
Arbitration Mechanism Supported Round Robin 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
0x10 Firmware Commit
0x11 Firmware Image Download
0x80 Format NVM
0xcb Vendor specific
0xcc Vendor specific
0xf0 Vendor specific
0xf1 Vendor specific
0xf2 Vendor specific

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IO COMMAND OPCODE COMMAND NAME
0x0 Flush
0x1 Write
0x2 Read
0x4 Write Uncorrectable
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 6.00 W
Power State #1 3.80 W
Power State #2 2.40 W
Power State #3 0.07 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) 49
Available Spare (%) 100
Percentage Used (%) 0
Data Units Read (LBA) 1599014000
Data Units Write (LBA) 510650000
Host Read Commands 9001914
Host Write Commands 2644386
Controller Busy Time (minutes) 333
Power On Hours (hours) 35
Power Cycles 46
Unsafe Shutdowns 16
Media and Data Integrity Errors 0

Function

Performance

Reliability