General

Brand	Micron
Model	7450 PRO
Capacity	3840GB
Usage Class	Enterprise

Interface

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

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	U.3 7mm

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	1
Total Bytes Written	7300 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	6800 MB/s
Sequential Write	5300 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	1000000
Random Write IOPS	180000
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 MTFDKCB3T8TFR-1BC15ABYY is an excellent fit for virtualized infrastructure, CDN edge caching, and read-optimized database tiers that need high queue-depth responsiveness, delivering up to 6,800/5,300 MB/s and 1,000,000/180,000 IOPS from a 3.84TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe platform. Compared with typical 1-DWPD mainstream SSDs in the same class, its combination of 7,300 TBW endurance and 3D TLC flash provides a stronger balance of sustained performance, fleet longevity, and predictable latency under mixed enterprise workloads.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 7,300 TBW and 1 DWPD, the MTFDKCB3T8TFR-1BC15ABYY is built to sustain heavy daily write activity across its service life, making it well suited for demanding enterprise and mixed-use workloads. In practical terms, this level of endurance means that under typical server or system-disk usage, buyers can expect many years of stable operation without concern about write wear becoming a near-term limitation. For enterprise reliability, built-in power-loss protection (PLP) helps preserve in-flight data and protects metadata integrity if power is interrupted unexpectedly, reducing the risk of corruption and unplanned recovery events. Its UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates a very low uncorrectable bit error rate and strong long-term dependability, which is especially important for business-critical storage environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe interface gives this drive the bandwidth and command efficiency needed to keep virtualized clusters, database nodes, and scale-out storage tiers from being bottlenecked by legacy SAS or SATA links.
2. Its 6800 MB/s sequential read performance accelerates large-block workloads such as analytics scans, backup restores, media streaming, and rapid dataset loading for AI and HPC environments.
3. With 1,000,000K random read IOPS, the SSD can sustain extremely heavy small-block transaction demand, making it well suited for high-concurrency OLTP, metadata-intensive platforms, and read-hot cloud services.
4. Rated at 1 DWPD, it provides enterprise-appropriate write endurance for mixed-use deployments, balancing service life, predictable maintenance cycles, and lower total cost of ownership in always-on data center operation.
5. Built on 3D TLC NAND and paired with a typical latency of 80 µs, the drive delivers a strong combination of flash density and fast response time for latency-sensitive applications that still require efficient capacity economics.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity: 1920GB Higher capacity: 7680GB In this product family, the 3840GB model sits at a practical sweet spot. Compared with the 1920GB version, it gives materially better headroom for dataset growth, overprovisioning flexibility, and longer refresh cycles, reducing the risk of early capacity pressure in mixed enterprise workloads. Compared with the 7680GB option, it typically delivers a more balanced cost profile while maintaining essentially the same class of sequential throughput and random IOPS. This makes 3840GB especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, database nodes, and high-density hyperconverged storage tiers.

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