General

Brand	Micron
Model	7450 PRO
Capacity	1920GB
Usage Class	Enterprise

Interface

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

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	U.3 15mm

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	1
Total Bytes Written	3650 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	6800 MB/s
Sequential Write	2700 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	800000
Random Write IOPS	120000
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 PRO MTFDKCB1T9TFR-1BC1ZABYYR delivers standout value in the 1 DWPD mainstream enterprise tier by combining 1920GB of 3D TLC endurance with up to 6800 MB/s read throughput and 800,000 random read IOPS on a PCIe Gen4 NVMe interface. It is especially well suited for read-intensive virtualized infrastructure, CDN/cache layers, and scale-out cloud nodes that need low-latency access and solid 3650 TBW durability without moving to a higher-cost mixed-use SSD class.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 3,650 TBW and 1 DWPD, this 1.92TB SSD is designed to sustain writing its full capacity once per day across the warranty period, which is more than sufficient for typical server boot, OS, application, and read-intensive enterprise workloads. In practical terms, for use as a system drive or in general infrastructure workloads, it provides long-term write endurance with ample margin, supporting stable operation over many years under normal deployment conditions. For enterprise reliability, the drive includes power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during unexpected power interruptions, reducing the risk of corruption and improving system recovery confidence. Its UBER of 1.0E-17 indicates an extremely low uncorrectable bit error rate, while the 2 million-hour MTBF further reflects a design built for dependable data integrity and continuous operation in business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe architecture removes storage bottlenecks in virtualized and scale-out servers, enabling faster data paths for latency-sensitive enterprise workloads.
2. Its high sequential read performance accelerates large-block operations such as database backup restore, analytics scans, and AI model loading, helping reduce job completion time.
3. The strong random read capability is especially valuable for OLTP databases, high-concurrency VM environments, and metadata-heavy applications where consistent responsiveness under load matters most.
4. With enterprise-grade endurance paired with 3D TLC NAND, the drive offers a practical balance of write sustainability, capacity efficiency, and total cost of ownership for mixed-use datacenter deployments.
5. The low typical latency helps applications reach data with minimal wait time, improving tail-response behavior in real-time services, caching layers, and performance-sensitive transaction systems.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity: 960GB Higher capacity: 3840GB In this product family, the 1920GB model sits at the practical sweet spot between the 960GB and 3840GB options. Versus 960GB, it gives substantially more headroom for OS images, logs, container layers, and workload growth, reducing early capacity pressure. Versus 3840GB, it typically delivers the best balance of acquisition cost, usable endurance profile, and enterprise-grade performance consistency, while keeping sequential throughput and random IOPS broadly in line with the series. It is well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, such as hosting boot and application volumes for roughly 40 to 60 virtual machines.

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