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EVISION
H
ISTORY
Revision Status Summary Sheet
Revision Date
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
1.0
1.1
1.2
09/01/2006
12/07/2006
03/07/2007
04/02/2007
04/20/2007
04/25/2007
06/11/2007
Sheet(s) Affected
Initial release. Title, all sheets.
Page 34 - Updated Ordering Information table.
All. Preliminary technical review.
All. Datasheet reorganized.
Official release.
Page 40 - added User-Addressable LBA Sector value for 48GB SSD in Table
11 under “Storage Capacities” topic.
Page 16 - removed SATA connector artwork (Figure 2) and updated figure
references; Page 20 - “ATA Command Flow” topic corrected; Page 49 -
updated “Operating Temperatures” table (Table 15); Page 50 - edited “Altitude
Parameters” topic; Page 52 - minor edit to Paragraph 4 of “Conformal Coating”
topic, “some component topsides”; Page 54 - minor edit to Table 22; Page 56
- added “Primary Heat Generation Area” topic.
Minor spelling and grammatical corrections throughout datasheet. Page 46 -
updated Table 13 to include 12 and 96 gigabyte user-addressable LBA sectors.
Page 62 - removed “Firmware Upgrades” topic.
All - removed all references to “2,000,000 write/erase cycles”. Minor grammar
and spelling corrections.
1.3
1.4
1.5
06/15/2007
06/28/2007
07/09/2007
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