General

Brand	Micron
Model	7450 PRO
Capacity	15360GB
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	29200 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	6800 MB/s
Sequential Write	5600 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 15.36TB (MTFDKCC15T3TFR-1BC15ABYYR) is purpose-built for dense virtualization clusters, large-scale read-centric databases, and CDN/content repositories that need to maximize capacity per U. With PCIe Gen4 NVMe performance up to 6800/5600 MB/s and 1,000,000 random read IOPS, it delivers stronger throughput and response consistency than typical 1 DWPD enterprise SSDs in the same class, while its 29,200 TBW 3D TLC design provides the endurance headroom required for 24/7 datacenter deployment.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 29,200 TBW, the MTFDKCC15T3TFR-1BC15ABYYR is designed for sustained write-intensive enterprise use and supports 1 DWPD, meaning the full drive capacity can be written once per day within its endurance specification. In typical server or system-disk workloads, this level of endurance provides a very comfortable margin, making it suitable for long-term deployment without practical wear concerns and easily supporting a system drive use case for around 10 years under moderate write volumes. Its enterprise reliability profile is further strengthened by power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight user data and critical metadata during an unexpected power interruption, reducing the risk of corruption and recovery events. In addition, the UBER rating of 1.0E-17 indicates an extremely low unrecoverable bit error rate, giving buyers strong confidence in data integrity for business-critical storage environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe architecture provides the low-overhead bandwidth needed to keep virtualized databases, analytics clusters, and GPU-fed data pipelines consistently saturated.
2. With sequential read performance of 6800 MB/s, the drive accelerates large-block workloads such as checkpoint recovery, media streaming, and rapid dataset ingestion in enterprise servers.
3. Delivering 1,000,000 K random read IOPS, it supports highly concurrent OLTP, metadata-intensive storage, and large VDI environments with faster response under heavy queue depth.
4. A 1 DWPD endurance rating makes it a strong fit for mixed-use enterprise deployments that require predictable write life across daily rebuilds, logs, and application churn.
5. Built on 3D TLC NAND and tuned for a typical latency of 80 µs, the drive balances cost-efficient capacity with responsive QoS for latency-sensitive cloud and transactional workloads.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity: 7680GB Higher capacity: 30720GB At 15360GB, this SSD sits at the sweet spot of the family. Compared with the 7680GB model, it gives much better headroom for data growth, denser VM placement, and longer refresh cycles without changing the platform. Compared with the 30720GB option, it delivers nearly the same enterprise-class sequential throughput and random IOPS while keeping acquisition cost, rebuild risk, and per-node spend under tighter control. This makes 15360GB especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, such as hosting boot and application volumes for around 60 to 80 mixed-workload virtual machines.

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