General

Brand	Micron
Model	9400 PRO
Capacity	7.68TB
Usage Class	Read-Intensive

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe Gen4 NVMe
Total Interface Bandwidth	16 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	U.3 15mm

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	176-layer 3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	1
Total Bytes Written	14000 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	7000 MB/s
Sequential Write	7000 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	1600000
Random Write IOPS	300000
Average Latency	77 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 9400 PRO 7.68TB (MTFDKCC7T6TGH-1BC1ZA) is a strong upgrade from MTFDKCB7T6TDF-1BC1ZABYY, combining newer 176-layer 3D TLC with PCIe Gen4 NVMe to deliver up to 7000/7000 MB/s and 1.6M/300K IOPS for materially higher throughput density in the same enterprise U.2 footprint. With 1 DWPD and 14,000 TBW, it is especially well suited for mixed read/write database, virtualization, and analytics tiers that need sustained enterprise endurance without sacrificing top-end sequential and random performance.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 14,000 TBW and 1 DWPD, the MTFDKCC7T6TGH-1BC1ZA is designed to sustain substantial daily write activity across its service life, making it well suited for always-on enterprise and data-centric workloads. In typical deployment scenarios, this level of endurance means it can comfortably serve as a system or application drive for many years, including around a decade of stable operation under moderate write-intensive use. On the reliability side, built-in power loss protection (PLP) helps preserve in-flight data and safeguard metadata integrity during unexpected power interruptions, reducing the risk of corruption and unplanned recovery events. Its enterprise-class UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates an extremely low probability of unrecoverable bit errors and strong long-term operational reliability for business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe interface, paired with top-tier sequential throughput, accelerates large dataset movement and VM/image loading for latency-sensitive cloud and AI infrastructure.
2. With up to 7,000 MB/s sequential read performance, the drive shortens backup restores, analytics scans, and content delivery pipelines where moving massive files quickly is critical.
3. Its 1,600,000K random read IOPS capability sustains extremely high transaction concurrency, making it well suited for dense virtualization, real-time databases, and heavily queried metadata tiers.
4. Rated at 1 DWPD, it provides the write endurance enterprises need for mixed-use production workloads while maintaining a practical balance between lifespan, capacity efficiency, and total cost of ownership.
5. Built on 176-layer 3D TLC NAND and delivering a typical latency of 77 µs, the SSD combines mature flash efficiency with consistently fast response times for predictable application QoS under load.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 3.84TB Higher capacity reference: 15.36TB In this series, the 7.68TB model sits at the sweet spot for mainstream enterprise deployment. Compared with 3.84TB, it provides much better capacity headroom, allowing denser VM placement, longer data retention windows, and fewer drive slots consumed as datasets grow. Compared with 15.36TB, it achieves a more balanced cost-per-drive while maintaining essentially the same enterprise-class sequential throughput and random IOPS profile. This makes 7.68TB especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, mixed database nodes, or HCI hosts supporting roughly 150–250 general-purpose virtual desktops or application instances.

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