SOLIDIGM ECH-P41-Plus Excellent Performance for Everyday Work and Play User Guide
- June 12, 2024
- SOLIDIGM
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SOLIDIGM ECH-P41-Plus Excellent Performance for Everyday Work and Play
Product Information
The Solidigm P41 Plus is an innovative PCIe 4.0 SSD that offers excellent
performance and value for everyday productivity and gaming. It features
144-layer 3D NAND and is available in an M.2 2280 form factor with capacities
of 512GB, 1TB, and 2 TB. With a sequential read speed of up to 4,125 MB/s, the
P41 Plus delivers great performance at an affordable price. The P41 Plus is
optimized for power savings and thermal efficiency, ensuring consistent
performance with minimal throttling. It is highly durable, allowing you to
write more data and read it back with fewer errors over the life of the SSD.
The P41 Plus comes with a five-year warranty and can handle heavy workloads,
making it a reliable choice for long-term usage. By combining the P41 Plus
with the optional Solidigm Synergy software, you can further enhance its
performance. Solidigm Synergy enables the SSD to optimize your most important
files and provide quick access, resulting in increased performance and
consistency.
Product Usage Instructions
- Installation:
- Ensure that your PC is powered off and disconnected from the power source.
- Locate the M.2 slot on your motherboard.
- Insert the P41 Plus SSD into the M.2 slot, aligning the connector pins.
- Gently press down on the SSD until it is securely seated in the slot.
- Secure the SSD in place using the provided screw or retention mechanism.
- Reconnect power to your PC and power it on.
- Software Installation (Optional):
- Visit the website www.solidigm.com/synergy to download the Solidigm Synergy software.
- Run the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions to install the software.
- Once installed, launch the Solidigm Synergy software.
- Follow the software prompts to establish communication between the P41 Plus SSD and your PC.
- Configure the software settings according to your preferences.
- Maintenance:
- Regularly update the firmware of your P41 Plus SSD by visiting the manufacturer’s website.
- Ensure that your PC is protected from power surges and voltage fluctuations.
- Keep the SSD and its surroundings clean and free from dust.
- Avoid exposing the SSD to extreme temperatures or moisture.
The P41 Plus is an innovative PCIe 4.0 SSD that delivers excellent value to PC users for everyday productivity and gaming. The free, optional Solidigm Synergy software enhances performance even further by optimizing the relationship between PC and SSD.
Product Overview
The P41 Plus features 144-layer 3D NAND, a PCIe 4.0 interface, and is available in an M.2 2280 form factor in capacities of 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB. Capable of delivering up to 4,125 MB/s sequential read speed, the P41 Plus represents a breakthrough in cost efficiency, delivering great performance at a price that won’t break the budget for everyday PC users.
Key Features
Performance with Impact on real-world workloads
Solidigm has taken a thorough approach to client workload analysis and SSD
design across many use cases – from daily student and office work to
enthusiast-level gaming and content creation – to understand the actual
components of user experience. As a result, Solidigm has designed the P41 Plus
to work best for the real-world workloads and applications that you use daily.
Power and Thermal Efficiency
The P41 Plus is optimized for power savings and thermal efficiency to help
deliver consistent performance with minimal throttling.
Endurance and Reliability
The P41 Plus is highly durable, allowing you to write more data and read it
back with fewer errors over the life of your SSD. You can write hundreds of GB
to the drive every day over a five-year warranty period, enabling you to rely
on the P41 Plus to provide consistent high performance for the life of your
SSD.
Increased Performance and Consistency with Solidigm Synergy
Combine the P41 Plus with the Solidigm Synergy software for a complete client
storage solution. Solidigm Synergy enhances performance with a new level of
communication between the P41 Plus and your PC, enabling the SSD to optimize
your most important files and optimizations for the quickest access. For
information on Solidigm Synergy, see
www.solidigm.com/synergy
P41 Plus Features
Performance With Impact Most performance figures on the front of an SSD retail
box and in product specification documents are based on pure I/O types at high
queue depth (often 32). These figures approach theoretical maximum drive
performance but are not necessarily well aligned to real-world usage. User
experience obviously varies depending on what the user is doing, but there are
important general trends: PC storage usage tends to be mostly read, mostly
random, and nearly all at very low QD. Solidigm has optimized the P41 Plus for
the real-world workloads and applications that you use daily.
Background on queue depth: Any workload, even a small one, will generate a
huge number of I/O operations. The SSD will process those as quickly as
possible, but sometimes a queue, or line, form of waiting requests. Thanks to
clever architecture, modern SSDs can service multiple requests in the queue at
a time. Consequently, performance measured in terms of data throughput will be
highest at high QD, when multiple requests are processed at once.
But many typical PC workloads just don’t form long queues because the SSD is
responding as quickly as the requests come in. In fact, Solidigm’s internal
research indicates that more than 90% of typical workloads operate at QD of 1
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Power and Thermal Efficiency
Save battery life and avoid throttling with a highly efficient SSD architecture. When an SSD takes on heavy workloads, it consumes more power and generates more heat. Overheating could possibly lead to electronic component damages and system failures, so typically any SSD that is starting to overheat is “throttled” – in other words, temporarily limited to lower performance – to help it cool down. Solidigm’s P41 Plus is designed with power optimization and thermal efficiency in its DNA. The P41 Plus is built on a highly efficient architecture that not only helps users save battery life while on the go, but also includes algorithms to help provide consistent performance under heavy workloads.
Endurance and Reliability
Write more data and read it back with fewer errors – backed by a 5-year
warranty. The P41 Plus is highly durable, allowing you to write hundreds of GB
of data daily and read it back error without error for the life of your SSD.
With a 5 year warranty, you can rely on the P41 Plus to preserve your data for
the life of your SSD.
Solidigm Synergy Software
Transparently improves your user experience with performance-optimizing
features. Solidigm Synergy is a free software suite for PCs running Microsoft
Windows that unlocks innovative new features on Solidigm SSDs. By closing the
gap between the storage device and the rest of the system, Solidigm Synergy
enables a more optimized user experience than hardware alone can provide.
There are two components of Solidigm Synergy, both optional but highly
recommended
High Endurance
P41 Plus
512 GB
| P41 Plus
1 TB
| P41 Plus
2 TB
Endurance Rating
200 TBW
| Endurance Rating
400 TBW
| Endurance Rating
800 TBW
Equivalent to
110GB written per day over 5-year warranty period
|
Equivalent to
219GB written per day over 5-year warranty period
|
Equivalent to
438GB written per day over 5-year warranty period
Capabilities| Enhances user experience by “closing the gap” between host and storage device to automatically optimize performance and power| Enables users to view drive health reports and trigger useful manual functions
API for integration into customer tools
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SSD compatibility| All Solidigm SSDs – baseline performance
improvement of up to 10% over Windows generic disk driver. Driver will load
but HMC only supported on P41 Plus today
Solidigm P41 Plus – Host-Managed Caching feature delivers an additional performance improvement of up to 10% over Windows in-box PCIe driver
Not supported on non Solidigm drives. Default to inbox driver
| Device identification and SMART reporting, plus useful Firmware Update,
Diagnostic Scan, and Secure Erase features
Platform compatibility| Windows on Intel or AMD| Windows on Intel or
AMD
Required for Solidigm SSDs?| No, but strongly recommended| No, but
strongly recommended
Cost| Free| Free
- The Solidigm Storage Driver automatically and invisibly boosts performance by making “under-the-hood” improvements to the connection between SSD and the host system.
- The Solidigm Storage Tool offers a modern user interface for drive health and information reporting, plus the ability to manually trigger useful functions such as Diagnostic Scan and Secure Erase.
- For further information on Solidigm Synergy and for free download, see www.solidigm.com/synergy
Solidigm Storage Driver
The Solidigm Storage Driver enables a new level of communication between SSD
and host that includes detailed information – not just about what data is
being stored, but how important it is to the user. By leveraging this new
communication path, the driver can help the SSD optimize how data is stored,
ensuring the most useful stuff is available most quickly when needed. Hardware
and firmware innovations have advanced SSD performance and efficiency greatly
over the years. But without software, even the most advanced drive today does
not actually know much about what it’s storing. SSDs see their contents in
terms of logical block addresses, or LBAs – ignorant of whether a given LBA
range references an application, a set of family photos, or any other data
type. Hardware and firmware innovations have advanced SSD performance and
efficiency greatly over the years. But without software, even the most
advanced drive today does not actually know much about what it’s storing. SSDs
see their contents in terms of logical block addresses, or LBAs – ignorant of
whether a given LBA range references an application, a set of family photos,
or any other data type.
Key feature: Host-Managed Cache
The marquee feature in Solidigm Synergy 1.0 is Host-Managed Caching, which
optimizes the use of our SSD’s SLC cache to intelligently serve up the user’s
most important files and applications at the fastest rate.
A quick primer on the SLC cache is in order. Virtually every client SSD uses
one these days. Modern SSDs store three (TLC) or four (QLC) bits per cell,
which enables higher densities and lower costs, but the tradeoff is
performance – it takes longer to access data in a cell storing multiple bits.
To mitigate this tradeoff, most SSDs are shipped with a proportion of their
cells set to store one bit each (the SLC cache). Data stored in the SLC cache
can potentially be read back much more quickly than data in TLC or QLC cells.
By default, the conventional SLC cache implementation is based on write recency. That is, whatever was written to the SSD most recently will go into the cache. It remains there as long as it can (depending on the size of the cache) until more Solution Brief | Excellent Performance for Everyday Work and Play recent data comes along and kicks it out to the non-cached portion of the drive. This works great as long as the user only needs to access recently written data. But what if you are often accessing photo sets, games, or other files that were put on the drive more than a few weeks ago? That’s where Host- Managed Caching comes in. By leveraging the closer relationship between the system and SSD that the driver facilitates, HMC enables the drive to actually see what file types it’s storing and how often the user asks for them. That information, which is inaccessible to an SSD without the help of a driver, unlocks all sorts of possibilities. The drive can now assign a “priority” to each block of data based on its usage characteristics. It can then intelligently sort the contents of the entire drive and ensure that the most useful data is always available in the SLC cache. It can even “re-insert” older data back into the SLC cache if, for whatever reason, the user begins requesting it more often again – an impossible move under the conventional approach.
Solidigm Storage Tool
Solidigm Synergy includes the Solidigm Storage Tool, an application that provides SSD health reports and enables users to trigger useful manual functions, such as trim, secure erase, and diagnostic scan. The Solidigm Storage Tool has two interfaces: a GUI to manage the SSD and a Command Line Interface (CLI) to update and configure the drive.
The Solidigm Storage Tool offers:
- Drive health checks
- Estimated drive life remaining
- SMART (Self-Monitoring and Reporting Technology) logs and attributes
- Firmware updates
- Optimizing drive performance with the SSD Optimizer
- Quick or complete diagnostic scans
Specifications
Available Capacities
|
512GB
|
1TB
|
2TB
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Performance Specifications
Sequential Bandwidth – 100% Read (up to)|
3500 MB/s
|
4125 MB/s
|
4125 MB/s
Sequential Bandwidth – 100% Write (up to)|
1625 MB/s
|
2950 MB/s
|
3325 MB/s
Power – Active| 80mW
Power – Idle| 25mW
Reliability
Vibration – Operating| 2.17 GRMS (5-700Hz)
Vibration – Non-Operating| 3.13 GRMS (5-700Hz)
Shock (Operating and Non- Operating)|
1,000 G (Max) at 0.5 msec 1,500 G (Max) at 0.5 msec
Operating Temperature Range| 0°C to 70°C
Operating Temperature (Maximum)
|
70 °C
Operating Temperature (Minimum)
|
0 °C
Endurance Rating (Lifetime Writes)
|
200 TBW
|
400 TBW
|
800 TBW
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
|
1.6 million hours
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate (UBER)
|
< 1 sector per 1015 bits read
Warranty Period| 5 years
Package Specifications
Form Factors| M.2 22 x 80mm
Interface| PCIe 4.0 x4 | NVMe
Advanced Specifications
Hardware Encryption| No
End-to-End Data Protection| Yes
NSIT Secure Erase| No
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How to Order
The Solidigm P41 Plus is available now and orderable with various retailers
and distributors, see: https://www.solidigm.com/en/products/authorized-
distributors.html
For More Information
For more information about the Solidigm P41 Plus see:
https://www.solidigm.com/en/products/client-products.htmlOr visit
www.solidigm.com
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References
- World-Class SSD Data Storage Solutions | Solidigm Technology
- Introducing the Latest Solidigm Synergy™ Software
- Solidigm employees use the power of data to make a better world | SSD Innovators at Solidigm