General

Brand	Micron
Model	5100 MAX
Capacity	1.92TB
Usage Class	Enterprise

Interface

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

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	2.5" 7mm

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	5
Total Bytes Written	17600 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	540 MB/s
Sequential Write	520 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	93000
Random Write IOPS	74000
Average Latency	μs

Reliability

Mean Time Between Failures	2 Million Hours
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate	1.0×10⁻¹⁷
Power Loss Protection	Yes

Engineer's Note

The Micron 5100 MAX 1.92TB (MTFDDAK1T9TCC-1AR1ZABHA) is engineered for write-intensive OLTP databases, virtualization logging, and mixed-workload analytics nodes, combining 5 DWPD endurance and 17,600 TBW with consistent SATA 6Gb/s performance up to 540/520 MB/s and 93K/74K IOPS. Compared with typical read-centric SATA drives in the same class, its 3D TLC design delivers substantially higher sustained write endurance without sacrificing capacity efficiency, making it a stronger fit for deployments that need enterprise SATA compatibility but near-cache-tier durability.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 17,600 TBW and 5 DWPD, the MTFDDAK1T9TCC-1AR1ZABHA is built for very write-intensive enterprise workloads, allowing the drive to be written in full five times per day throughout its rated service life. In typical use as an OS, application, or infrastructure boot drive, this level of endurance provides a very large safety margin and supports many years of worry-free operation under normal data center workloads. For reliability, the drive includes power-loss protection, which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata if power is interrupted unexpectedly, reducing the risk of corruption and unclean shutdown events. Its enterprise-class UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates an extremely low probability of uncorrectable read errors and strong long-term dependability for business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The SATA interface ensures broad drop-in compatibility with mainstream enterprise servers and storage arrays, making large-scale deployments and refresh cycles simpler and more cost-efficient.
2. Its strong sequential read capability helps accelerate backup restores, VM image loading, and large dataset access in read-focused enterprise workflows.
3. The high random read performance supports latency-sensitive applications such as OLTP databases, virtual desktop infrastructure, and metadata-heavy cloud services with faster response under parallel demand.
4. This endurance profile is built for write-intensive enterprise environments, giving IT teams confidence in sustained daily rewrites for logging, caching, and transactional workloads over the drive’s service life.
5. 3D TLC NAND provides a well-balanced mix of capacity, efficiency, and reliability, making it a practical choice for enterprises that need performance at scale without moving to higher-cost media.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 960GB Higher capacity reference: 3.84TB Capacity positioning analysis: The 1.92TB model sits in the sweet spot of this SSD family. Compared with the 960GB option, it gives meaningfully more headroom for OS images, application growth, logs, and overprovisioning flexibility, reducing early capacity pressure in production. Compared with the 3.84TB model, it usually delivers a better balance between acquisition cost, usable capacity, and enterprise-class performance consistency. This makes it especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, such as hosting boot and primary workload volumes for roughly 40–60 mixed-use virtual machines.

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