Intel SSDSC2CW480A301 User Manual

Intel

®

 Solid-State Drive 520 Series

February 2012

Product Specification

Order Number: 325968-001US

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The Intel SSD 520 Series supports all mandatory Advanced Technology Attachment 

(ATA) and Serial ATA (SATA) commands defined in the ACS-2 and SATA Revision 3.0 

specifications. The mandatory and optional commands are defined in this section.

General Feature command set (non-PACKET), which consists of:

• EXECUTE DEVICE DIAGNOSTIC
• FLUSH CACHE
• IDENTIFY  DEVICE 

See 

 for details on the sector data 

returned after issuing an IDENTIFY DEVICE command.

• READ DMA
• READ  SECTOR(S)
• READ  VERIFY  SECTOR(S)
• SEEK
• SET FEATURES
• WRITE  DMA
• WRITE  SECTOR(S)
• READ  MULTIPLE
• SET MULTIPLE MODE
• WRITE  MULTIPLE

The Intel SSD 520 Series also supports the following optional commands:

• READ BUFFFER
• WRITE BUFFER
• NOP
• DOWNLOAD MICROCODE

The Intel SSD 520 Series supports several power management feature sets as defined 

by the ATA specification: general Power Management feature set, Advanced Power 

Management feature set, and Power-Up In Standby (PUIS) feature set. 

The Advanced Power Management and PUIS features can be enabled or disabled using 

the SET FEATURES command.

The Power Management feature set includes the following commands:

• CHECK  POWER  MODE
• IDLE
• IDLE  IMMEDIATE
• SLEEP
• STANDBY
• STANDBY  IMMEDIATE