General

Brand	Micron
Model	5200 PRO
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	1
Total Bytes Written	3500 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	540 MB/s
Sequential Write	520 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	95000
Random Write IOPS	32000
Average Latency	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 PRO 1.92TB (MTFDDAK1T9TDD-1AT16ABYY) is best suited for read-centric virtualization clusters, CDN edge caches, and scale-out content repositories that need SATA compatibility but still require strong endurance at 1 DWPD and 3,500 TBW. Compared with typical entry SATA SSDs in the same class, it delivers a more enterprise-balanced profile with near–interface-limit 540/520 MB/s throughput, up to 95,000 random-read IOPS, and 3D TLC efficiency that improves usable performance consistency over lower-end mixed-use drives.

Endurance & Reliability

With a rated endurance of 3,500 TBW and 1 DWPD, the MTFDDAK1T9TDD-1AT16ABYY is designed to handle writing the full drive capacity once per day across its specified service life, which is more than sufficient for typical enterprise OS, boot, and mixed-read workloads. In practical terms, for use cases such as a system drive, edge server boot storage, or read-centric application environment, this endurance level provides long-term peace of mind and can comfortably support many years of normal operation without endurance becoming a concern. For enterprise reliability, the drive includes power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and prevents metadata corruption if power is interrupted unexpectedly. Its UBER rating of 1.0E-17 indicates an extremely low probability of unrecoverable bit errors during reads, supporting high data integrity expectations in business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The SATA 6Gb/s interface provides drop-in compatibility with mainstream enterprise servers and storage arrays, enabling cost-efficient upgrades without changing existing backplanes or cabling.

2. With sequential read performance of 540 MB/s, this drive accelerates large-file access, helping analytics, backup, and media streaming workloads complete data retrieval faster.

3. Its random read capability of 95,000 K IOPS supports highly responsive access to small-block data, which is critical for virtualization, OLTP databases, and metadata-heavy applications.

4. Rated for 1 DWPD endurance, the SSD is well suited for read-centric enterprise deployments that need predictable lifespan and stable performance under daily full-drive rewrites.

5. Built with 3D TLC NAND, it balances capacity, reliability, and acquisition cost, making it a practical choice for scaling business storage while maintaining enterprise-grade efficiency.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity: 960GB Higher capacity: 3.84TB Within this SSD family, the 1.92TB model is the practical sweet spot. Compared with the 960GB version, it gives meaningfully better space headroom for OS images, application growth, logs, and overprovisioning flexibility, reducing early capacity pressure. Compared with the 3.84TB option, it typically delivers a more attractive cost-to-usable-capacity balance while maintaining broadly similar enterprise read/write and random IOPS behavior. It is especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization or database clusters, such as supporting about 40 to 60 mixed-workload virtual machines per storage tier.

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