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	U.3 15mm

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 (MTFDKCB800TFS-1BC1ZABYY) is purpose-built for write-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads such as database logging, metadata tiers, and high-churn virtualization caches, combining 3 DWPD endurance with 4,380 TBW in a compact PCIe Gen4 NVMe design. Compared with mainstream read-optimized SSDs in the same class, it delivers materially stronger sustained durability and steadier mixed-workload responsiveness, making it the better fit where drive life and predictable QoS matter more than peak sequential write throughput.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 4,380 TBW and 3 DWPD, the MTFDKCB800TFS-1BC1ZABYY is designed to sustain very heavy write workloads throughout its service life. In practical terms, this level of endurance is more than sufficient for typical enterprise system-boot, virtualization, caching, or mixed-use server scenarios, and for lighter OS-drive workloads it can operate for many years without endurance concern. For enterprise reliability, the drive includes power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and protects metadata integrity if power is interrupted unexpectedly. Its UBER rating of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates a very low likelihood of unrecoverable bit errors and supports dependable operation in business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe interface gives this drive the bandwidth and parallelism needed to remove storage as a bottleneck in virtualized clusters, high-density databases, and scale-out application servers.
2. Its strong sequential read performance accelerates large-block data movement, shortening boot storms, analytics scans, backup restores, and media or AI dataset loading.
3. Its high random read capability sustains fast response under heavy mixed-user access, making it well suited for OLTP databases, metadata-intensive workloads, and read-heavy cloud services.
4. The enterprise endurance rating supports frequent full-drive rewrites throughout the warranty life, which is critical for write-intensive logging, caching, and transactional environments.
5. Built on 3D TLC NAND and backed by low typical latency, it balances enterprise-grade capacity, predictable QoS, and cost efficiency for latency-sensitive production workloads.

Capacity Sweet

Lower-capacity reference: 400GB Higher-capacity reference: 1.6TB In this enterprise SSD family, the 800GB model sits in the sweet spot between the 400GB entry option and the 1.6TB higher-capacity tier. Versus 400GB, it gives meaningfully better headroom for OS images, application growth, logging, and overprovisioning, reducing early capacity pressure in mixed enterprise workloads. Versus 1.6TB, it typically delivers nearly the same sequential and random performance profile while keeping acquisition cost and $/IOPS efficiency more balanced. It is well suited for mid-scale deployments, such as a 3-node virtualization cluster hosting around 60 to 80 general-purpose virtual machines.

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