General

Brand	Micron
Model	7500 PRO
Capacity	7680GB
Usage Class	Enterprise

Interface

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

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	U.3

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	1
Total Bytes Written	14016 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	7000 MB/s
Sequential Write	5900 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	1100000
Random Write IOPS	215000
Average Latency	15 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 7500 PRO 7.68TB is purpose-built for read-intensive to mixed enterprise workloads such as virtualized infrastructure, scale-out databases, and CDN edge caching, combining 7,000/5,900 MB/s throughput with up to 1.1M/215K IOPS to keep latency low under sustained load. Compared with typical 1 DWPD PCIe Gen4 SSDs in the same class, it stands out by pairing high-capacity 3D TLC efficiency with 14,016 TBW endurance, making it a strong choice when you need to maximize usable flash per server without sacrificing enterprise durability.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 14,016 TBW and 1 DWPD, this SSD is designed to sustain writing its full usable capacity every day over its rated service life, which is well above the demands of most enterprise system-disk and application-boot workloads. In practical terms, for typical OS, logging, and read-heavy infrastructure use, this level of endurance provides a very comfortable margin for long-term deployment and helps minimize concerns about write wear in daily operation. Its enterprise reliability profile is further strengthened by power-loss protection, which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during an unexpected outage, reducing the risk of corruption and unplanned recovery events. An UBER of 1.0E-18 indicates an extremely low probability of unrecoverable bit errors during reads, supporting high data integrity expectations for business-critical storage environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe interface, paired with up to 7000 MB/s sequential read bandwidth, accelerates VM boot storms, database warm-up, and large dataset loading in latency-sensitive servers.
2. With random read performance reaching 1,100,000 K IOPS, this drive sustains dense transactional and metadata-heavy workloads without becoming a bottleneck in virtualized or scale-out environments.
3. A 1 DWPD endurance rating gives enterprises predictable write headroom for daily mixed-use workloads while keeping lifecycle planning and replacement cadence manageable.
4. Built on 3D TLC NAND, the drive balances performance, capacity, and cost efficiency, making it well suited for mainstream enterprise tiers that need dependable flash economics at scale.
5. Typical latency of 15 µs helps reduce tail-response time, improving application consistency for real-time analytics, high-concurrency databases, and performance-critical cloud services.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity: 3840GB Higher capacity: 15360GB The 7680GB model sits at the sweet spot in this SSD family. Compared with the 3840GB version, it gives much better headroom for data growth, mixed workloads, and longer refresh cycles without changing the storage footprint. Compared with the 15360GB option, it delivers a more balanced acquisition cost while keeping essentially the same enterprise-class sequential throughput and random IOPS profile. This makes 7680GB especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, such as hosting boot and application volumes for roughly 60 to 80 business-critical virtual machines.

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