Wednesday, November 23rd 2022
Announcing the TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database
We are announcing the latest addition to our PC enthusiast databases, the new TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database. Modeled along the lines of our immensely popular GPU Database, CPU Database, and hardware Reviews Database, the new SSD Specs Database, curated by Gabriel Ferraz, aims to be a definitive repository of information on solid-state drive (SSD) hardware specs, for all to freely access. Here, you'll find a growing collection of client SSD hardware specs across all relevant form-factors and information. The database also helps you identify multiple hardware revisions of the same SSD model, so you're aware of any bait-and-switch incidents, or vague specs by manufacturers.
The TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database has individual info pages on each capacity variant of an SSD model; besides any hardware variants it may have. You can have quick, actionable information on specs such as controller, NAND flash, DRAM cache, advanced NAND flash specs, interface, protocol, controller hardware specs, and known performance numbers from our testing. We are constantly adding new drives to this database, and you can help us grow, not just by suggesting improvements to the database itself, but for additions to the database, please reach out to the curator on the main page. But for now, enjoy what we've built for you!
TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database
The TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database has individual info pages on each capacity variant of an SSD model; besides any hardware variants it may have. You can have quick, actionable information on specs such as controller, NAND flash, DRAM cache, advanced NAND flash specs, interface, protocol, controller hardware specs, and known performance numbers from our testing. We are constantly adding new drives to this database, and you can help us grow, not just by suggesting improvements to the database itself, but for additions to the database, please reach out to the curator on the main page. But for now, enjoy what we've built for you!
TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database
215 Comments on Announcing the TechPowerUp SSD Specs Database
i think i have an example here on a more recent SSD one sec
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/adata-project-nightbird-1-tb.d619
Looks empty don't you think?
I just figured that between you and W1zzard would have set a minimum of data available - like if one doesn't own the SSD to dump a VLO and take pics, but can access datasheets with some detail - to make it an eligible entry for the database.
From those datasheets, even from manufacturer to manufacturer, they differ. Transcend does not list the controller, amongst other fine details, and Samsung provides more info one the OEM drives, than on the consumer ones (I've also grown frustrated by this, to always require a test drive to disassemble first, then buy a batch of the same SKU). So my question was if the "least" detailed were still eligible for an entry, even if more data would be shared in the long run.
I don't think we need a "minimum requirement" to add, if i want to add a drive just saying test drive, i'd just need to fill necessary things like, capacity, and basic things like that
60 GB ... 119 GB
120 GB ... 239 GB
240 GB ... 479 GB
480 GB ... 959 GB
960 GB ... 1.8 TB
1.9 TB ... 3.7 TB
3.8 TB ... 7.5 TB
7.6 TB and more
For example, the 960 GB ... 1.8 TB option would find everything around 1 TB but nothing around 2 TB. Intermediate capacities like 1.5 TB don't matter, they are rare or nonexistent in consumer drives anyway.
Also, unless your aim is to build a database that goes very far back in history, the under 60 GB option isn't of much use.
Some additional data, because I was wondering about the same thing
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/samsung-pm981-1-tb.d1220
Is there some sort of form or something like that, you will get buried in emails otherwise.
I have a Toshiba drive lying around now. Specs of IC's? Nude shots? Benchmarks?
One example: as W1zzard states in his review of the HP FX900, "The two flash chips are Micron 176-layer 3D TLC NAND. They have been rebranded by BIWIN, who's manufacturing this drive for HP. BIWIN buys the wafer from Micron, cuts and test the individual dies, and then packages them into their own chips." Meanwhile, in the database it's "Rebranded: BW29F4T08ENLEE".
There may be many cases like this, and it's not fair to call them rebrands.
vlo.name:3000/ssdtool/I always add, please remember that manufacturers don't share this information, only reviewers do, and most reviewers don't even test these data, and different SSD revisions might have different cache sizes, so thats why it's not listed, because we don't knowYes
Samsung
YMTC
Kioxia (Toshiba/WD/SanDisk)
SK Hynix
Micron/IntelBiwin rebrands it, Micron manufactures the dies, SpecTek usually have lower binned dies
I wouldn't bother abbreviating with
Only without and yes that would often be w/o but see, with is only one more letter and is clear as day by meaning no need for mapping meaning of it now ;)
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/samsung-830-512-gb.d1224
@_JP_ Samsung 750 EVO also added
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/samsung-750-evo-500-gb.d1228
I'll focus now on these transcend drives
Transcend SSD370S added
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/transcend-ssd370s-1-tb.d1236
www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/samsung-470-series-256-gb-ssd-review-30nm/
and some more data (exact model of controller and flash chips)
en.techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Samsung_470_Series_256GB
I'll see what i can do, it's really difficult to get detailed information on these older planar NANDs
One of the issue is some sites claim it's Samsung 30nm and others claim 32nm lol
So far that's what i've been able to dig
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/samsung-470-series-256-gb.d1260
I just wish i knew how many planes there were in each of these dies, so i could calculate an average of throughput for each individual die since in their Datasheet they already stipulate close to 2ms of tPROG
web.archive.org/web/20141227093052/http://www.samsung.com/us/business/oem-solutions/pdfs/PSG2011_FINAL-092011.pdf
The drive:
The NAND package:
And hey, Samsung had "3bit MLC" chips in 2011, that must be the thing that much later became known as TLC!
There's something interesting about the S3C29MAX01-Y340 controller too. As it appears, it was sold separately as a general purpose microcontroller, I found it here, with no mention of SSD applications.