General

Brand	Micron
Model	5200 MAX
Capacity	1920GB
Usage Class	Enterprise

Interface

Host Interface	SATA 6Gb/s
Total Interface Bandwidth	6 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	2.5-inch

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	5
Total Bytes Written	17520 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	540 MB/s
Sequential Write	520 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	95000
Random Write IOPS	75000
Average Latency	200 μs

Reliability

Mean Time Between Failures	3 Million Hours
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate	1.0×10⁻¹⁷
Power Loss Protection	Yes

Engineer's Note

The Micron 5200 MAX 1.92TB is engineered for write-intensive mixed workloads such as OLTP databases, logging tiers, and virtualization caches, combining 5 DWPD endurance with 17.52PB TBW to sustain enterprise duty cycles far beyond typical read-centric SATA SSDs. Delivering up to 540/520 MB/s and 95K/75K IOPS on mature 3D TLC NAND, it offers a rare balance of high endurance, strong random performance, and drop-in SATA 6Gb/s compatibility for infrastructure that needs dependable performance without a PCIe platform change.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 17,520 TBW and 5 DWPD, this SSD is built for sustained write-intensive enterprise use, allowing the full drive capacity to be written five times per day throughout its rated service life. In typical server or system-disk workloads, this level of endurance provides a very large safety margin and can comfortably support long-term deployment, including many years of stable operation under normal OS, application, and logging activity. This model also includes power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve data in flight during an unexpected power interruption and reduces the risk of corruption or incomplete writes. Its enterprise-grade UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 3 million hour MTBF, indicates a very low probability of unrecoverable bit errors and strong overall reliability for business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The SATA 6Gb/s interface, paired with strong sequential read performance, enables fast dataset pulls and efficient backup or restore operations in legacy enterprise platforms without requiring a PCIe infrastructure upgrade.
2. High random read capability allows the drive to sustain responsive access to small-block data, making it well suited for virtualized environments, metadata-heavy workloads, and read-intensive databases.
3. A 5 DWPD endurance rating gives IT teams the confidence to deploy this SSD in write-heavy enterprise applications such as logging, caching, and mixed transactional workloads over its service life.
4. Built on 3D TLC NAND, the drive balances enterprise-grade capacity, cost efficiency, and reliability, helping organizations scale flash storage economically across mainstream server deployments.
5. With a typical latency of 200 µs, the drive helps reduce application wait time and improves QoS consistency for business-critical services that depend on predictable storage response.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 960GB Higher capacity reference: 3840GB In this series, the 1920GB model is the sweet-spot capacity. Compared with the 960GB option, it gives much better headroom for growth, reducing early capacity pressure from OS images, logs, temp data, and application expansion while keeping similar enterprise-class sequential throughput and random IOPS. Compared with the 3840GB version, it delivers a stronger balance between acquisition cost, usable capacity, and performance consistency. It is especially well suited for mid-sized virtualization clusters, such as shared boot and application storage for about 40–60 mixed-workload virtual servers.

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