General

Brand	Micron
Model	5100 PRO
Capacity	480GB
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 eTLC
Drive Writes Per Day	2.5
Total Bytes Written	2200 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	540 MB/s
Sequential Write	410 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	93000
Random Write IOPS	37000
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 5100 PRO 480GB (MTFDDAK480TCB-1AR16ABYY) is engineered for write-intensive SATA deployments such as virtualized server boot volumes, database logs, and edge caching, combining 2.5 DWPD and 2200 TBW endurance with 3D eTLC reliability. Compared with typical entry enterprise SATA SSDs, it delivers a stronger endurance-to-capacity profile while sustaining up to 540/410 MB/s and 93K/37K IOPS, making it a better fit for mixed-workload consistency where SAS-like durability is needed on a SATA budget.

Endurance & Reliability

With 2,200 TBW endurance, the MTFDDAK480TCB-1AR16ABYY can sustain approximately 2.2 petabytes of total host writes, which is far beyond the write volume of a typical OS, boot, or mixed application drive. In practical terms, for normal enterprise system-disk workloads, this level of endurance supports long-term use with substantial write headroom and can comfortably cover multi-year deployment without endurance concerns. For enterprise reliability, built-in Power Loss Protection (PLP) helps preserve in-flight data and protects metadata integrity during unexpected power interruptions, reducing the risk of corruption and unplanned recovery events. Its UBER of 1.0E-17 indicates an extremely low unrecoverable bit error rate, supporting dependable data integrity in read-intensive and mission-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The SATA 6Gb/s interface enables straightforward drop-in deployment across mainstream enterprise servers and storage arrays, making refresh projects faster and more cost-efficient without requiring PCIe platform changes.
2. Its strong sequential read performance accelerates large-block data access, helping reduce backup, imaging, and analytics dataset load times in read-heavy business environments.
3. The high random read capability supports fast response under mixed and small-block workloads, which is especially valuable for virtualized infrastructure, OLTP databases, and metadata-intensive applications.
4. With an endurance rating of 2.5 DWPD, this drive is built for sustained write-intensive enterprise use, giving IT teams the confidence to run logging, caching, and transactional workloads over the full service life.
5. Built on 3D eTLC NAND, it delivers a balanced combination of enterprise-class endurance, stable latency behavior, and better cost efficiency for always-on data center operations.

Capacity Sweet

Lower reference capacity: 240GB Higher reference capacity: 960GB Within this series, 480GB sits at the practical sweet spot. Versus the 240GB option, it gives noticeably more headroom for OS images, logs, patch growth, and moderate application data, reducing early capacity pressure. Versus the 960GB model, it usually delivers the best balance of acquisition cost, usable endurance, and near-identical enterprise-class sequential and random I/O behavior. In deployment terms, 480GB is well suited for a compact virtualization cluster, such as hosting boot and utility volumes for roughly 25 to 40 light-to-midweight virtual machines.

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