General

Brand	Micron
Model	7300 PRO
Capacity	960GB
Usage Class	Enterprise

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe
Total Interface Bandwidth	31.5 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	M.2 22110

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	1
Total Bytes Written	2508 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	3000 MB/s
Sequential Write	1000 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	520000
Random Write IOPS	320000
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 7300 PRO 960GB (MTFDHBA960TDF-1AW1ZABYY) is an excellent fit for read-centric virtualization clusters, boot/storage tiers, and CDN edge nodes that need predictable PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe latency with up to 3000/1000 MB/s and 520K/320K IOPS in a compact 1 DWPD design. With 3D TLC NAND and 2508 TBW endurance, it delivers a strong balance of performance-per-watt and usable write life for mixed enterprise workloads, making it a more efficient deployment choice than typical entry enterprise SATA or lower-IOPS Gen3 SSDs in the same capacity class.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 2508 TBW and 1 DWPD, the MTFDHBA960TDF-1AW1ZABYY is designed to support writing its full 960 GB capacity once per day over its rated service life, which is more than sufficient for typical OS, boot, logging, and mainstream server workloads. In practical terms, under normal enterprise system-disk usage, this level of endurance provides long-term peace of mind and can comfortably support many years of stable operation without wear becoming a concern. For enterprise reliability, integrated power-loss protection (PLP) helps preserve in-flight data and protects mapping tables and metadata during unexpected power interruptions, reducing the risk of data corruption and unplanned recovery events. Its UBER of 1.0E-17 indicates an extremely low unrecoverable bit error rate, meaning the drive is engineered for very high data integrity in business-critical environments, further reinforced by a 2 million-hour MTBF specification.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe interface provides the bandwidth and parallelism needed to keep enterprise applications responsive under heavy transactional and virtualization workloads.
2. This level of sequential read performance accelerates large-block data access, helping databases, analytics platforms, and backup recovery jobs complete faster.
3. Its strong random read capability supports latency-sensitive environments such as OLTP, VDI, and metadata-heavy workloads where rapid small-block access is critical.
4. The endurance profile is well suited for read-intensive enterprise deployments, enabling predictable lifespan and lower replacement risk in always-on data center operations.
5. Built with 3D TLC NAND, the drive balances capacity, cost efficiency, and reliability, making it a practical fit for scaling mainstream enterprise storage tiers.

Capacity Sweet

Within this product family, the next lower capacity is typically 480GB, while the next higher capacity is 1.92TB. The 960GB model sits in the sweet spot: compared with 480GB, it provides meaningfully better headroom for OS images, application growth, logs, and overprovisioning flexibility, reducing early capacity pressure in mixed enterprise workloads. Compared with 1.92TB, it usually delivers a more attractive cost-per-deployment while maintaining broadly similar enterprise-class sequential and random performance. This makes 960GB especially well suited for medium-scale virtualization clusters, such as boot and infrastructure storage for roughly 40–60 virtual machines.

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