General

Brand	Micron
Model	7450 MAX
Capacity	6400GB
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	35000 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	6800 MB/s
Sequential Write	5300 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	1000000
Random Write IOPS	370000
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 6.4TB is purpose-built for write-intensive mixed workloads such as OLTP databases, high-churn virtualization clusters, and metadata-heavy caching tiers, combining 3 DWPD and 35,000 TBW with PCIe Gen4 performance up to 6800/5300 MB/s. Compared with mainstream read-optimized or lower-endurance enterprise SSDs in the same class, it delivers a stronger balance of sustained write endurance and low-latency responsiveness, with up to 1,000,000/370,000 random read/write IOPS from proven 3D TLC NAND.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 35,000 TBW and 3 DWPD, the MTFDKCC6T4TFS-1BC1ZABYYR is designed for sustained write-intensive enterprise use, allowing the full drive capacity to be written three times per day across its warranty period. In typical mixed server or storage workloads, this level of endurance provides substantial headroom and makes the drive a dependable choice for long-term use, including demanding system, cache, and application storage roles. For enterprise reliability, the drive includes power-loss protection, which helps preserve in-flight data and protects metadata integrity if power is interrupted unexpectedly. Its UBER of 1.0E-17 and 2 million-hour MTBF indicate a very low probability of unrecoverable bit errors and strong overall reliability expectations for mission-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe interface removes legacy storage bottlenecks, helping virtualization clusters, databases, and AI servers keep CPUs fully utilized under heavy parallel workloads.
2. With near-7 GB/s sequential read performance, it shortens large dataset loading, backup recovery, and analytics scan times in data-intensive enterprise environments.
3. Its million-class random read capability enables consistently fast response for high-concurrency applications such as OLTP databases, VDI, and large-scale cloud instances.
4. Built on 3D TLC NAND and engineered for multiple full-drive rewrites per day, it delivers a strong balance of enterprise endurance and cost efficiency for mixed-use deployments.
5. Typical latency of about 80 microseconds helps reduce application wait time, improving responsiveness for caching layers, real-time transaction systems, and latency-sensitive services.

Capacity Sweet

Lower reference capacity: 3840GB Higher reference capacity: 7680GB In this series, the 6400GB option sits at a practical sweet spot. Compared with 3840GB, it gives meaningfully more headroom for growth, overprovisioning, snapshots, and mixed enterprise workloads without changing the expected sequential or random performance profile. Compared with 7680GB, it usually delivers a better cost-per-deployment balance, avoiding overbuying capacity while preserving enterprise-class throughput and IOPS consistency. This makes 6400GB especially suitable for mid-scale virtualization, such as equipping a 16- to 24-node cluster with resilient boot, log, and hot-data storage.

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