Solid-State Drive 520 Series

Table Of Contents

Intel

February 2012 Product Specification

Order Number: 325968-001US 3

Intel

Solid-State Drive 520 Series

Contents

1.0 Overview...................................................................................................................5

2.0 Product Specifications ...............................................................................................6

2.1 Capacity ............................................................................................................6

2.2 Performance.......................................................................................................6

2.3 Electrical Characteristics.......................................................................................8

2.4 Environmental Conditions.....................................................................................8

2.5 Product Regulatory Compliance.............................................................................9

2.6 Reliability.........................................................................................................10

2.7 Hot Plug Support...............................................................................................10

3.0 Mechanical Information...........................................................................................11

4.0 Pin and Signal Descriptions .....................................................................................13

4.1 Pin Locations ....................................................................................................13

4.2 Signal Descriptions............................................................................................13

4.2.1 Connector Pin Signal Definitions...............................................................13

4.2.2 Power Pin Signal Definitions.....................................................................14

5.0 Supported Command Sets........................................................................................15

5.1 ATA General Feature Command Set .....................................................................15

5.2 Power Management ...........................................................................................15

5.3 Security Mode Feature Set..................................................................................16

5.4 SMART Command Set........................................................................................16

5.4.1 SMART Attributes ...................................................................................17

5.4.2 SMART Logs ..........................................................................................19

5.5 Device Statistics................................................................................................19

5.6 SMART Command Transport (SCT) ......................................................................20

5.7 Data Set Management Command Set...................................................................20

5.8 Host Protected Area Command Set......................................................................20

5.9 48-Bit Address Command Set .............................................................................20

5.10 General Purpose Log Command Set .....................................................................21

5.11 Native Command Queuing..................................................................................21

5.12 Software Settings Preservation............................................................................21

5.13 SATA Link Power Management (LPM) ...................................................................21

6.0 Certifications and Declarations................................................................................22

7.0 References ..............................................................................................................23

8.0 Terms and Acronyms ...............................................................................................23

9.0 Revision History ......................................................................................................24

A IDENTIFY DEVICE Command Data ...........................................................................25