General

Brand	Micron
Model	1100
Capacity	1TB
Usage Class	Client

Interface

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

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	2.5" 7mm

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	0.11
Total Bytes Written	400 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	530 MB/s
Sequential Write	500 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	92000
Random Write IOPS	83000
Average Latency	μs

Reliability

Mean Time Between Failures	1.5 Million Hours
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate	1.0×10⁻¹⁷
Power Loss Protection	Yes

Engineer's Note

The Micron 1100 1TB (MTFDDAK1T0TBN-1AR1ZABYY) is best suited for read-intensive client and edge workloads such as OS boot drives, VDI images, and content-cache nodes, where its 530/500 MB/s sequential throughput and 92K/83K IOPS deliver near-SATA-limit responsiveness at 1TB scale. Compared with typical entry SATA SSDs in the same class, it stands out by combining TLC cost efficiency with 400 TBW endurance, making it a stronger fit for capacity-focused deployments that still need predictable mixed-read performance and longer usable life.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 400 TBW and 0.11 DWPD, the MTFDDAK1T0TBN-1AR1ZABYY is well suited for read-intensive and mixed light-write workloads such as OS boot, application hosting, edge systems, and general server system-drive use. In practical terms, this level of endurance is typically more than sufficient for a system disk over many years of normal enterprise operation, giving buyers confidence in long-term deployment stability. For enterprise reliability, the drive includes power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and mapping-table integrity if power is interrupted unexpectedly. Its UBER rating of 1.0E-15, together with a 1.5 million-hour MTBF, indicates a low probability of unrecoverable read errors and strong overall dependability for business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The SATA interface enables straightforward integration into existing enterprise server and storage platforms, making it ideal for cost-efficient refreshes without changing the infrastructure stack.
2. Its strong sequential read capability helps accelerate boot storms, large file access, and analytics dataset loading in read-centric business environments.
3. High random read performance supports fast response times for virtualized workloads, OLTP databases, and metadata-heavy applications with many small I/O requests.
4. The light endurance profile is best suited to read-dominant enterprise use cases such as content delivery, boot volumes, and reference data where write pressure remains relatively low.
5. TLC NAND provides a practical balance of capacity, performance, and acquisition cost, making it well aligned with scale-out deployments that prioritize storage efficiency.

Capacity Sweet

In this series, the next lower capacity reference is 480GB, and the next higher capacity reference is 1.92TB. The 1TB model sits at the sweet spot of the lineup: compared with 480GB, it gives much more headroom for OS images, logs, metadata, and steady data growth without changing the platform design. Compared with 1.92TB, it typically preserves nearly the same enterprise-class sequential throughput and random IOPS while offering a better cost-per-deployment balance. It is especially well suited for medium-scale clusters, such as a 12 to 16-node virtualization or container platform.

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