General

Brand	Micron
Model	7450 PRO
Capacity	7680GB
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	14600 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 7.68TB (MTFDKCC7T6TFR-1BC1ZABYY) is purpose-built for mixed-read/write enterprise workloads such as virtualized infrastructure, scale-out databases, and high-density cloud storage, combining PCIe Gen4 performance up to 6800/5600 MB/s with 1M/180K IOPS in a power-efficient 3D TLC design. With 1 DWPD endurance and 14,600 TBW at this capacity point, it delivers an especially strong balance of usable density, sustained reliability, and low-latency responsiveness versus typical mainstream enterprise NVMe SSDs in the same class.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 14,600 TBW and 1 DWPD, the MTFDKCC7T6TFR-1BC1ZABYY is built to handle sustained daily write activity across enterprise workloads, far beyond the demands of a typical OS or boot drive. In practical terms, for common system-disk, virtualization, and mixed-read/write applications, this level of endurance supports many years of stable operation and can confidently cover long-term deployment cycles. For enterprise reliability, integrated power-loss protection helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during unexpected power interruptions, reducing the risk of corruption and improving recovery confidence. Its UBER of 1.0E-17 indicates an extremely low uncorrectable bit error rate, supporting high data integrity in business-critical environments, while the 2 million-hour MTBF further reflects a design focused on dependable continuous service.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe interface, paired with top-tier sequential read bandwidth, accelerates large dataset ingestion and VM image loading, helping enterprise servers cut startup and recovery time.
2. With up to 6800 MB/s sequential read performance, this SSD is well suited for analytics, media streaming, and backup platforms that depend on moving massive files without creating storage bottlenecks.
3. Delivering 1,000,000K random read IOPS, it enables databases, virtualization clusters, and high-concurrency cloud services to sustain fast response times under heavy mixed-workload pressure.
4. Rated at 1 DWPD, the drive provides a practical endurance profile for always-on enterprise environments where predictable daily write capacity and long-term reliability matter more than burst-only performance.
5. Built with 3D TLC NAND and a typical latency of 80 µs, it balances cost-efficient enterprise capacity with the low access delay needed for transactional applications and latency-sensitive infrastructure.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 3840GB Higher capacity reference: 15360GB Capacity positioning analysis: At 7680GB, this SSD sits in the sweet spot of the series. Compared with the 3840GB model, it offers much better capacity headroom for data growth, workload consolidation, and longer upgrade cycles. Compared with the 15360GB option, it keeps essentially the same enterprise-class sequential and random performance while avoiding the higher acquisition cost and overprovisioning risk of a larger drive. This makes it especially suitable for mid-scale virtualization or database nodes, such as supporting boot, logs, cache, and active datasets for roughly 40 to 60 business applications per server.

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