Apacer SAFD25P-M Series Embedded MLC Type SATA Solid State Drive (SSD)

Apacer Serial ATA Flash Drive (SAFD) is a solid-state disk (SSD) drive that contains a controller, embedded firmware, and flash media along with a male connector. Using NAND flash memory devices, the SAFD drive interfaces with the host allowing data to be seamlessly transferred between the host and the flash devices.

SAFD 25P-M drive is designed with a single-chip controller, offering capacities of up to 512 gigabytes and providing full support for the SATA II high-speed interface standard. It can operate at sustained access rates higher than 100 megabytes per second, which is much faster than any other traditional SATA-based hard disk drive currently available on the market. Though built with MLC, this SSD can work in highly demanding environment as it can withstand ambient temperature from -40°C to +85°C (for certain capacities only).

In addition to buffer management through dynamical allocation, SAFD 25P-M adopts the global wear-leveling scheme to allow uniform use of all storage blocks, ensuring that the lifespan of a flash media can be significantly increased and the disk performance is optimized as well. SAFD 25P-M provides the S.M.A.R.T. feature that follows the SATA Rev. 2.6, ATA/ATAPI-7 specifications and used the standard SMART command B0h to read data from the drive. This feature protects the user from unscheduled downtime by monitoring and storing critical drive performance.