Kontron KSSDP-VA User manual

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1. General Description
Kontron KSSDP Professional series SSD is a high reliability and performance design
solid state storage device to improve customers’data storage experience by providing
faster data transfer speed and less access time. It uses SLC & MLC NAND flash memories
chips as storage media which gives the better solution against shock and vibration problem
than traditional hard disk drive, also KSSDP-VA series provide customized function modular
options for special applications including industry wide operating temperature, data security
and data encryption.
2. Features
- PATA interface
- 2.5 inch form factor
- Capacity range 16G - 256G
- 128M DDR Cache
- Stable and Sustained performance output
- High random read / write transfer rate
- Advanced wear-leveling
- Building ECC
- Advanced bad block management and flash memory management
- Extreme reliability and endurance
- F/W upgradeable
3. Customization Option
- Former factor
- Storage capacity
- Data Security Functions
Data Fast Clear
Data Sanitization
DoD 5220.22-M
NSA 130-2
AR 380-19
AFSSI 5020
Navso P5239-26
IRIG-106
Destructive Data Erase
- Full Disk Encryption (AES128bits)
- Operating Temperature Extension
Normal Temp : 0℃to 70℃
Industrial Temp : – 40℃to 80℃
- Conformal Coating
- BGA Underfill
- MIL-STD-810 compliance report

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4. Physical Dimension
5. Product Specication
5.1 Interface
The interface of Kontron P10P Series complies with the ATA-100.
Transfer Mode:
PIO: 0,1,2,3,4
UDMA: 0,1,2,3,4,5
5.2 Capacity
5.3 Performance
5.3.1 Data Transfer Rate
Test Setup : Intel E420 + 1G DDR2 + ASUS P5KSE Main Board
OS: Windows XP SP2
Benchmark Software: HD TACH 3.01
Parameters Value Unit
Length 100.2 +/-0.3 mm
Width 69.8 +/-0.3 mm
Height 9.5 +/-0.3 mm
Weigh 80 (Max.) g
Capacity 16G 32G 64G
Total Bytes 16,000,000,000 32,000,000,000 64,000,000,000
Cylinders 16383 16383 16383
Heads 16 16 16
Sectors 63 63 63
Data Transfer Rate Sustained .Read Sustained Write Unit
Sustained 85 80 MB/S

5.3.2 IOPS
Test Setup : Intel E420 + 1G DDRS + ASUS P5K SE Main Board
OS: Windows XP SP2
Benchmarking software: IO Meter 2006.07.27
5.3.3 Access Time
Random access time : 0.1msec
Test Setup : Intel Core Due E8400 + 2G DDRS + ASUS P5BSE Main Board
OS: Windows XP SP2
Benchmarking software: HD TACH 3.0.1.0
5.4 Reliability
5.4.1 Wear-Leveling
KSSDP-VA Series SSD applies Static, and Dynamic wear leveling algorithms to endure
the NAND flash memory blocks under same wearing level.
5.4.2 ECC
Building ECC ( Error Correction Code ) correct 6bits per 528 Bytes
5.4.3 Endurance
5.4.4 Data Retention
Data retention above 10 years @ 25C
5.4.5 MTBF
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) > 1,000,000 Hours
5.4.6 Bad block management
Advanced the bad block management can replace the bad blocks with reserved blocks
available automatically.
6. Electrical Specication
6.1 Pin Assignment
6.1.1 Reserved Pin Assignment
Access Type IOPS ( IO operation per second )
512B 4K
Random Read 7000 4600
Random Write 630 350
Sequential Read 11000 6200
Sequential Write 12000 8400
Capacity 16G 32G 64G
Read unlimited unlimited unlimited
Write >50years@
150G/day
>50years@
300G/day
>50years@
600G/day

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6.1.2 Signal Pin Assignment
6.2 Power Voltage
VDC 5V +/- 5%
6.3 Power Consumption
7. Data Purge Function
Kontron Data Purge is an embedded security function which was designed to meet the
needs of data security concerned applications such as defense and other special purposes.
Data Purge delivers reliable hi-speed data clear and sanitization with user friendly interface
and auto power failure resume function.
Pin A Reserved for Option FUNC Pin C Reserved for Option FUNC
Pin B Reserved for Option FUNC Pin D Reserved for Option FUNC
Pin No. Signal Denition Pin No. Signal Denition
1 RESET 2 GND
3 DD7 4 DD8
5 DD6 6 DD9
7 DD5 8 DD10
9 DD4 10 DD11
11 DD3 12 DD12
13 DD2 14 DD13
15 DD1 16 DD14
17 DD0 18 DD15
19 GND 20 removed
21 DMARQ 22 GND
23 DIOW:STOP 24 GND
25 DIOR:HDMARDY: 26 GND
27 IORDY:DDMARDY:DSTORBE 28 CSEL
29 DMACK 30 GND
31 INTRQ 32 LOCS16
33 DA1 34 PDIAG:CBLID
35 DA0 36 DA2
37 CS0 38 CS1
39 DASP/ Indicator Pin for data purge
operating status 40 GND
41 +5V 42 +5V
43 GND 44 NC
Status Max Power Consumption Unit
Idle < 1.5 W
Operating < 3 W

The time required to purge a SSD depends on the actual purge mode invoked by the
user and the flash memory type / flash memory configuration of the drive. A list of typical
purge times of SSD is listed in Table 1.
7.1 Operating Principle
Clear
Clearing is the processing of erasing data on the media. In a NAND flash based SSD,
this is done by executing a block-by-block erase with verify. Data Purge implements the
block-by-block erase on entire physical flash blocks including user data area and reserved
area for FW, spare and logical to physical mapping table. This results in all the data on
media were erased and unrecoverable.
As soon as the Purge was triggered, SSD will cut off the signals transfer between
Host system and SSD, stop receiving new ATA commands, and force to interrupt on-going
ATA commands; and then SSD will execute block-by-block erase until all blocks in user
data area were erased.
After user data area erased, if “sanitization”mode were invoked, SSD will follow
the sanitization procedure to overwrite/fill the user data area by pre-defined pattern; if
“Clear”mode were invoked, SSD will continue to execute erase on all vendor reserved
data area, logical to physical mapping table, and firmware area. The SSD will be set back
to “blank”with no function after “clear”.
Sanitization
Sanitizing is the process of declassifying the drive by executing an unrecoverable
removal of fall data on the media. In a NAND Flash based SSD, this initiates a sequence
of block-by-block erase, pattern write and pattern verify operations designed to eliminate
any trace of the original data.
KSSDP-VA provides customer standard sanitization procedure by overwriting “1”to
all user data area after block-by-block erase. The SSD will be set back to factory default
with full functions after “Sanitization”.
7.2 User Interface and Operating Guide
Trigger Method
The Data Purge can be triggered by various methods software trigger, hardware
trigger or method combined software and hardware. A successful software trigger would
depend on a functional platform which might be limited by hardware, OS, and application
software used in Host system, and it is hard to guarantee the normal function of host
system in emergency;
Kontron designs a system-independence in-drive hardware mechanism to deliver a
simple and reliable trigger method for Data Purge function.
User Interface and Definition
SSD Clear Speed Clear Time Sanitization Speed Sanitization Time
32G MLC 5GB/sec 6 Secs 60MB/s 8 Mins
64G MLC 10GB/sec 6 Secs 100MB/s 10 Mins
32G SLC 6GB/sec 5 Secs 120MB/s 4 Mins
64G SLC 6GB/sec 10 Secs 120MB/s 8 Mins

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A dedicated 2 reserved pins connector was provided for trigger switch in KSSDP-VA：
Pin A : Trigger Pin, 3.3V input, internal resistor pull-up, output was protected by series
resistor. Pin A and Pin B are combined as a normal open type switch for purge trigger；
Pin D : GND
Pin 39 : Indicator Pin for operating status，3.3V LVCMOS output for LED driving.
Operating Guide
The Purge function was triggered by closing and holding Pin A and Pin D switch for
a given time. And LED between Pin 39 and Pin D（or GND）can show operating status –
ready, operating and completion.
（1）Purge Ready, after SSD power on, the indictor LED is ON；
（2）Pre-Trigger, closing and holding the trigger switch, SSD will go to pre-trigger
status, LED will flicker at 1Hz; if user releasing the switch in pre-trigger stage, the SSD will
go back to (1); SSD will be triggered to Data Clear mode by holding the switch for 2 seconds
;and SSD will be triggered to Sanitization mode by holding the switch for 4 seconds or
more.；
（3）User Data Erase, as soon as the commands were triggered, SSD will cut off the
signals transfer between Host and SSD, stop receiving new ATA commands, and force to
interrupt on-going ATA commands; and then SSD will execute block-by-block erase until all
blocks in user data area were erased, then go ( 4 ), if sudden power fail, jump to ( 3a )
（4）Purge Mode Judgment, Data Clear mode, go（5）; Data Sanitization mode，go
（6）；
（5）Erase reserved block，logical to physical mapping table, Firmware. If sudden
power failed then go（5a）；After all erase operations, go（7）；
（6）Overwrite / fill erased user data area by “1”，LED will flick，and one LED on/ff
cycle means 1GB data area have been overwritten/filled. If sudden power fail then go（6a）;
After overwrite / filling, go（7）；
（7）Data Purge complete，LED will be ON；SSD is set back to factory default in off-
line, 10 seconds power-off should be conducted before restart the Host system and put SSD
in use.
（3a）LED ON; until internal backup power used up. Power On again，jump to (3b）；
（3b）Auto resume and ready to continue. If sudden power fail again; if SSD is ready
then jump to (3); if the SSD is not ready, then jump to (3a);
（5a）LED ON；until internal backup power used up. Power On again，jump to (5b）
Pin Definition - PATA

（5b）Auto resume and ready to continue. If sudden power fail again; if SSD is ready
then jump to 53); if the SSD is not ready, then jump to (5a);；
（6a）LED On; until internal backup power used up. Power On again，jump to ( 6b）；
（6b）Auto resume and ready to continue. If sudden power fail again; if SSD is ready
then jump to (6); if the SSD is not ready, then jump to (6a);
7.3 Options
Data Purge is a flexible modular design, and can provide following options which can
be customized to meet various applications.
（1）Trigger Time, can be changed more or less, default setting is 2 seconds；
（2）Trigger Mode Setting, the default Data Clear Trigger is defined as holding switch
for 2 seconds, and holding time over 4 seconds is defined as Data Sanitization. The actual
settings can be adjusted by customer requirement.
（3）An in-drive back-up power system have been provided as default, so the SSD
can keep working well and auto resume during and after sudden power fail. Also Kontron
provides customer option to enhance the back-up power by adding more extra back-up
power which is strong enough to support the energy used for erase entire disk area in
emergency.
（4）Kontron can provide pre-defined pattern for data overwrite / fill, default setting
is “1”, by customer requirement, the pattern can be defined to comply with third party
standards in following list or customer spec.
DoD 5220.22-M
NSA 130-2
AR 380-19
AFSSI 5020
Navso P5239-26
RIG-106
8. Environmental Specication
8.1 Temperature
Status Changing Diagram

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8.2 Humidity
8.3 Shock
8.4 Vibration
8.5 Altitude
Status Temperature Unit
Operating 0 to +70℃
Extended Temp -40℃to +80℃Degree C
Non-Operating -40℃-+80℃
Extended Temp -45 ℃to +85℃Degree C
Parameter Humidity Unit
Operating 5-90 %
Parameter Force Unit
Operating 2000 G
Status Parameter Unit
Operating 20G Peak 20-15KHZ with 3 Axis G
Status Parameter Unit
Operating -1000 - 15000 feet
9. Production ordering information
9.1 Ordering Part.-NO.
Article Part.-No. Description
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000032-01A 2.5’’ IDE compatible 32GByte SSD with MLC Flash
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000064-01A 2.5’’ IDE compatible 64GByte SSD with MLC Flash
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000128-01A 2.5’’ IDE compatible 128GByte SSD with MLC Flash
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000256-01A 2.5’’ IDE compatible 256GByte SSD with MLC Flash
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000256-01C 2.5’’ IDE compatible 256GByte SSD with MLC Flash, extended
temperature -40 to 70
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000032-01C 2.5’’ IDE compatible 32GByte SSD with MLC Flash, extended
temperature -40℃to 70℃
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000064-01C 2.5’’ IDE compatible 64GByte SSD with MLC Flash, extended
temperature -40℃to 70℃
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000128-01C 2.5’’ IDE compatible 128GByte SSD with MLC Flash, extended
temperature -40℃to 70℃
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000016-02C 2.5’’ IDE compatible 16GByte SSD with SLC Flash, extended
temperature -40℃to 85℃
℃
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000032-02C 2.5’’ IDE compatible 32GByte SSD with SLC Flash, extended
temperature -40℃to 85℃
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000064-02C 2.5’’ IDE compatible 64GByte SSD with SLC Flash, extended
temperature -40℃to 85℃
KSSDP-VA KSSD-P-M000128-02C 2.5’’ IDE compatible 128GByte SSD with SLC Flash, extended
temperature -40℃to 85℃
9.2 Product function code

1. For updates or additional information about Kontron products, contact your nearest
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2. Kontron products are not intended for use in life support, critical care, medical,
safety equipment, or similar applications where products failure could result in loss of life
or personal or physical harm, or any military or defense application, or any governmental
procurement to which special terms or provisions may apply.
* Kontron reserves the right to change products or specification without notice.
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