General

Brand	Micron
Model	7450 MAX
Capacity	1600GB
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	3
Total Bytes Written	8760 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	6800 MB/s
Sequential Write	2700 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	800000
Random Write IOPS	250000
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 1600GB (MTFDKCC1T6TFS-1BC15A) is purpose-built for write-intensive OLTP databases, metadata-heavy virtualization, and logging/journaling tiers, combining 3 DWPD endurance and 8,760 TBW with PCIe Gen4 performance up to 6,800/2,700 MB/s and 800K/250K IOPS. Compared with mainstream read-centric TLC NVMe SSDs in the same class, it delivers substantially higher sustained write endurance and stronger mixed-workload consistency, making it the more dependable choice for latency-sensitive enterprise infrastructure.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 8,760 TBW and 3 DWPD, the MTFDKCC1T6TFS-1BC15A is designed for sustained write-intensive enterprise use, allowing the full drive capacity to be written three times per day across its rated service life. In typical workloads, this level of endurance is far beyond what is required for an OS or boot drive, meaning it can serve as a system disk for many years with ample endurance margin. For enterprise reliability, the drive includes power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve data in flight and protects against metadata corruption if power is interrupted unexpectedly. Its 1.0E-17 UBER and 2 million-hour MTBF indicate a very low uncorrectable bit error rate and strong long-term operational reliability, making it well suited for business-critical storage environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe interface, paired with 6.8 GB/s sequential read performance, accelerates large dataset ingestion, VM boot storms, and backup recovery in bandwidth-hungry enterprise platforms.
2. With up to 800K random-read IOPS, the drive sustains fast access to small-block data, helping databases, virtualization clusters, and analytics workloads stay responsive under heavy concurrency.
3. A 3 DWPD endurance rating enables consistent daily full-drive rewrites across the warranty period, making it well suited for write-intensive enterprise applications such as logging, caching, and transactional systems.
4. Built on 3D TLC NAND, the SSD balances enterprise-grade capacity, endurance, and cost efficiency, giving data centers a practical mix of performance and deployment scalability.
5. A typical latency of 80 µs helps reduce storage response time at the microsecond level, supporting predictable QoS for latency-sensitive workloads like OLTP, real-time analytics, and high-density virtualization.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 800GB Higher capacity reference: 3200GB In this product family, the 1600GB model sits in a practical sweet spot. Compared with the 800GB version, it gives much better headroom for OS images, logs, metadata, and workload growth, reducing the risk of early capacity pressure. Compared with the 3200GB option, it usually delivers a more attractive cost profile while keeping enterprise-class sequential throughput and random IOPS broadly in line with the series norm. This makes 1600GB especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, such as shared boot and application storage for roughly 40 to 60 general-purpose virtual machines.

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