General

Brand	Micron
Model	5100 PRO
Capacity	240GB
Usage Class	Enterprise

Interface

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

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	M.2 2280

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	1.5
Total Bytes Written	650 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	540 MB/s
Sequential Write	250 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	78000
Random Write IOPS	26000
Average Latency	500 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 240GB (MTFDDAV240TCB-1AR1ZABYY) is best suited for server boot, metadata, and write-intensive edge-cache tiers where a small-capacity SATA SSD must still sustain enterprise-class endurance, delivering 1.5 DWPD and 650 TBW—well above typical entry SATA drives in this capacity band. With 3D TLC NAND, 540/250 MB/s throughput, and up to 78,000/26,000 IOPS, it offers a more durable and performance-balanced choice for legacy SATA infrastructures that need predictable QoS without the cost or platform changes required for NVMe.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 650 TBW and 1.5 DWPD, the MTFDDAV240TCB-1AR1ZABYY is designed to comfortably handle typical enterprise and industrial write workloads over its service life. In practical terms, for common OS, boot, logging, and application-drive usage, this level of endurance supports long-term stable operation and can serve as a system drive for around 10 years under normal write conditions without endurance concerns. Its enterprise-class reliability is further strengthened by power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during unexpected power interruptions, reducing the risk of corruption and unplanned recovery events. An UBER of 1.0E-17 means an extremely low probability of unrecoverable bit errors, providing a very high data integrity standard for business-critical storage environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The SATA 6Gb/s interface enables straightforward drop-in deployment across mainstream enterprise backplanes and legacy server platforms, reducing upgrade friction and qualification effort in large installed fleets.
2. With sequential reads up to 540 MB/s, this drive accelerates boot storms, image distribution, and large-file retrieval for read-heavy application and content-delivery workloads.
3. Its random read performance of 78,000 K IOPS helps databases, virtual desktop pools, and metadata-intensive services respond more consistently under highly concurrent access patterns.
4. Rated at 1.5 DWPD, the endurance profile is well suited for mixed-use enterprise environments that need predictable lifespan under sustained daily overwrite activity without overpaying for ultra-write-intensive media.
5. Built on 3D TLC NAND and delivering a typical latency of 500 µs, it balances cost-efficient capacity with stable responsiveness for latency-sensitive business applications and consolidated server storage tiers.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 120GB Higher capacity reference: 480GB Capacity positioning analysis: Within this enterprise SSD family, the 240GB model sits at a practical sweet spot. Compared with the 120GB version, it gives noticeably better space headroom for OS images, logs, patches, and moderate application growth, reducing early capacity pressure. Compared with the 480GB option, it preserves nearly the same enterprise-class sequential throughput and random IOPS profile while offering a more balanced acquisition cost per node. This makes 240GB especially well suited for medium-scale virtualization clusters, such as boot and infrastructure storage for about 40 to 60 compute hosts or mixed database test environments.

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