Datasheet

Intel
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Solid-State Drive DC P3600 Series
October 2014 Product Specification
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2.9 Hot Plug Support
2.5-inch form factor will support surprise hot plug feature in capable platforms and OSs. Intel SSD
DC P3600 Series supports hot insertion and removal and surprise hot insertion by means of presence detect and
link-up detect. On surprise hot removal during IOs, P3600 Series will enable the integrity of already committed
data on the media and commit acknowledged writes to the media.
2.10 Out of Band Management (SMBUS)
P3600 Series provides out of band management by means of SMBUS interface. This requires 3.3V Auxiliary voltage.
SMBUS accesses a VPD page as listed in Appendix B through address 0X53.
Temperature sensor is accessed through address 0x1B. For temperature sensor access, temperature can be read by
the BMC (base) using Read Temperature Data Register (0x05) by means of SMBUS 0x1B. Bits [11:0] return raw
ambient temperature.
Host may also see 0x66 address in a bus scan. This is only used for write protecting the EEPROM during
manufacturing.
Note: In certain tools address for the VPD and temperature sensor will appear as 0xA6 and 0x36 respectively due
to bit shift.
2.11 Variable Sector Size Support
P3600 Series supports 512, 520, 528, 4096, 4104, 4160 and 4224 bytes of sector size. P3600 Series will also
support DIF as specified in NVMe* 1.0 specification. 520 and 4104 Byte sector sizes can support PI (protection
information) which is 8 Byte long.
In terms of protection information action (PRACT), bit 29 of DWORD12 in READ/Write command should not be
equal to 1. Device only supports PRACT=0, implying protection information is passed to the SSD and checked by
the SSD.
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