General

Brand	Micron
Model	7450 MAX
Capacity	800GB
Usage Class	Enterprise

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe Gen4 NVMe
Total Interface Bandwidth	16 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	M.2 2280

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	3
Total Bytes Written	4380 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	5500 MB/s
Sequential Write	1500 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	530000
Random Write IOPS	170000
Average Latency	80 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 7450 MAX 800GB (MTFDKBA800TFS-1BC1ZA) is purpose-built for write-intensive cache, logging, metadata, and database journal workloads, combining 3 DWPD endurance with 4,380 TBW in a compact PCIe Gen4 NVMe platform. Compared with mainstream read-centric enterprise SSDs in the same class, it delivers a stronger endurance profile while sustaining up to 5500/1500 MB/s and 530K/170K IOPS, making it a better fit for mixed enterprise workloads that need predictable latency under heavy daily writes.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 4,380 TBW and 3 DWPD, the MTFDKBA800TFS-1BC1ZA is designed to sustain very heavy write workloads across its service life, making it well suited for enterprise boot, caching, and mixed-use storage scenarios. In practical terms, under typical system-disk or mainstream server workloads, this level of endurance provides long-term headroom and can comfortably support many years of stable operation without endurance-related concern. For enterprise reliability, the drive includes Power Loss Protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and protects metadata integrity if power is suddenly interrupted. Its UBER rating of 1.0E-17 and 2 million hours MTBF indicate a very low probability of unrecoverable bit errors and a strong overall reliability profile for business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe architecture gives this drive the low-overhead bandwidth needed to keep virtualization clusters, scale-out databases, and analytics nodes fed without becoming a storage bottleneck.
2. Its sequential read performance accelerates large-block workloads such as backup recovery, media processing, and data-lake scans, helping servers move massive datasets with less idle compute time.
3. Strong random read capability makes it well suited for high-concurrency environments like OLTP databases, VDI, and metadata-heavy cloud services, where consistent responsiveness under mixed access patterns matters most.
4. With enterprise-grade endurance rated for multiple full-drive writes per day, it is built for write-intensive use cases such as logging, caching, journaling, and frequently updated transactional platforms.
5. The combination of 3D TLC NAND and very low typical latency delivers a practical balance of capacity, reliability, and fast response times for latency-sensitive production applications.

Capacity Sweet

Reference capacities in the same series: 400GB and 1.6TB. Both typically maintain broadly similar enterprise-class sequential read/write throughput and random IOPS to the 800GB model. The 800GB capacity sits in the sweet spot of this product family. Compared with the 400GB version, it gives much better headroom for OS growth, logs, swap, metadata, and overprovisioning, reducing early capacity pressure in always-on environments. Compared with the 1.6TB model, it usually delivers a more attractive cost profile while preserving essentially the same enterprise performance behavior. This makes 800GB especially well suited for small-to-medium virtualization clusters, such as hosting boot and application volumes for around 40 to 60 general-purpose virtual machines.

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