General

Brand	Micron
Model	2200
Capacity	512GB
Usage Class	Client

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe Gen3 x4
Total Interface Bandwidth	8 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	M.2 2280

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day
Total Bytes Written	150 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	3000 MB/s
Sequential Write	1600 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	240000
Random Write IOPS	210000
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 2200 MTFDHBA512TCK 512GB is a strong fit for client boot drives, VDI endpoints, and read-intensive edge caching, combining PCIe Gen3 x4 throughput up to 3000/1600 MB/s with 240K/210K IOPS to accelerate OS responsiveness and application launch times. Compared with typical SATA SSDs in the same capacity class, it delivers substantially higher bandwidth and lower latency while using durable 3D TLC NAND and a 150TB TBW rating for more reliable long-term deployment.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 150 TBW, the MTFDHBA512TCK can sustain about 41 GB of host writes per day over a 10-year period, which is comfortably above the write volume of a typical OS boot drive, office PC, thin client, or embedded system. In practical terms, for normal read-heavy and mixed business workloads, this level of endurance supports long-term, worry-free use as a system drive, while the specified DWPD value of [dwpd] further defines its supported daily write intensity within the warranty conditions. For enterprise reliability, built-in power loss protection (PLP) helps preserve in-flight data and maintain metadata integrity if power is interrupted unexpectedly, reducing the risk of corruption and unplanned recovery events. An UBER of 1.0E-15 means the drive is designed for a very low uncorrectable bit error rate, and combined with a 2 million hour MTBF, it provides the dependable data integrity and operational stability procurement teams expect for business-critical deployments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen3 x4 interface provides enough host bandwidth to keep enterprise applications responsive, reducing storage bottlenecks in virtualization, analytics, and scale-out server environments.
2. Its strong sequential read performance speeds up large-block data movement, helping shorten backup restores, media streaming, and dataset loading windows.
3. The high random read capability supports dense mixed-workload environments, enabling faster VM boot storms, metadata access, and transaction-heavy application response.
4. With a [dwpd] DWPD endurance rating, this drive is built to handle sustained daily rewrites, making it a practical fit for write-active enterprise workloads with predictable lifecycle planning.
5. Built on 3D TLC NAND, it balances enterprise-class capacity, cost efficiency, and reliability, making it well suited for mainstream data center deployments that need solid performance without SLC-level pricing.

Capacity Sweet

Lower-capacity reference: 480GB Higher-capacity reference: 960GB Within this enterprise SSD family, 512GB sits at the sweet spot. Compared with the 480GB option, it gives noticeably better headroom for OS images, logs, hot data, and short-term growth, reducing early capacity pressure. Compared with the 960GB model, it preserves most of the family’s mainstream sequential and random I/O behavior while keeping acquisition cost and fleet-wide TCO more disciplined. In practice, 512GB is a strong fit for mid-scale deployments such as hosting boot and application volumes for about 40 to 60 virtualized business workloads.

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