General

Brand	Micron
Model	7300 PRO
Capacity	7.68TB
Usage Class	Enterprise

Interface

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

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	2.5" 7mm U.2

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	1
Total Bytes Written	22400 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	3000 MB/s
Sequential Write	1900 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	520000
Random Write IOPS	85000
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 7.68TB (MTFDHBE7T6TDF-1AW1ZABYY) is purpose-built for dense read-centric cloud storage, CDN edge caching, and scale-out virtualization clusters, combining high-capacity 3D TLC with 3,000/1,900 MB/s throughput and up to 520K/85K IOPS on a PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe interface. Compared with typical 1 DWPD Gen3 SSDs in the same class, it stands out by pairing 7.68TB of usable capacity with 22,400 TBW endurance, enabling better rack-level storage density and longer service life without moving to a higher-cost mixed-use drive tier.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 22,400 TBW and 1 DWPD, the MTFDHBE7T6TDF-1AW1ZABYY is built to sustain one full drive write per day across its warranty life, which is a strong fit for steady enterprise and data-center workloads. In practical terms, for typical OS, boot, logging, and mixed application workloads, this level of endurance means the drive can serve reliably for many years without write wear being a concern. Its enterprise-class reliability is further strengthened by power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and protects metadata integrity if power is interrupted unexpectedly. An UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2-million-hour MTBF, indicates an extremely low rate of unrecoverable bit errors and a design intended for dependable long-term operation in mission-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe interface, paired with 3000 MB/s sequential read bandwidth, accelerates VM boot storms, large database scans, and analytics job startup in latency-sensitive data centers.
2. With 520,000K random read IOPS, the drive sustains heavy parallel access from virtualized workloads and high-concurrency OLTP platforms without becoming a read bottleneck.
3. A 1 DWPD endurance rating makes it a strong fit for read-intensive enterprise tiers that need predictable lifespan under daily production writes while keeping fleet replacement cycles manageable.
4. Built on 3D TLC NAND, it balances enterprise-grade capacity efficiency, stable performance, and cost control for mainstream cloud and server storage deployments.
5. Its typical latency of [latency] µs helps shorten application response time and improves QoS consistency for transactional workloads that are sensitive to storage delay.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 3.84TB Higher capacity reference: 15.36TB At 7.68TB, this SSD sits at the sweet spot of the family. Compared with the 3.84TB model, it gives materially better headroom for data growth, denser VM placement, and longer refresh cycles without changing the expected enterprise-class sequential throughput or random IOPS profile. Compared with the 15.36TB option, it delivers a more balanced $/GB, lowers acquisition cost, and avoids overprovisioning for mainstream workloads. This makes 7.68TB especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, mixed OLTP databases, or high-density boot and application tiers for roughly 40 to 60 servers.

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