General

Brand	Micron
Model	7450 MAX
Capacity	800GB
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	4380 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	5500 MB/s
Sequential Write	1500 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	530000
Random Write IOPS	170000
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 800GB (MTFDKCC800TFS-1BC15ABYYR) is purpose-built for write-intensive edge logging, metadata, and OLTP journal workloads, combining 3 DWPD endurance and 4,380 TBW with predictable PCIe Gen4 NVMe performance of up to 5,500/1,500 MB/s and 530K/170K IOPS. Compared with mainstream read-centric TLC SSDs in the same class, it delivers materially higher sustained write durability and stronger random write behavior in a compact 800GB footprint, making it a better fit where steady-state write pressure matters more than peak capacity.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 4,380 TBW and 3 DWPD, the MTFDKCC800TFS-1BC15ABYYR is designed to sustain very heavy write activity over its service life, making it well suited for mixed-use and write-intensive enterprise environments. In practical terms, under typical server or system-disk workloads, this level of endurance provides ample headroom for many years of stable operation, including long-term OS, application, logging, and caching duties without endurance concerns. For enterprise reliability, the drive includes power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and protects metadata integrity if power is interrupted unexpectedly, reducing the risk of corruption and unplanned recovery events. Its ultra-low UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates a very high standard of data integrity and operational reliability expected for business-critical storage deployments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe interface provides the bandwidth and parallel command efficiency needed to keep virtualization clusters and data-intensive applications consistently fed without creating a storage bottleneck.
2. With sequential read performance of 5500 MB/s, the drive accelerates large-file movement, database snapshot recovery, and analytics dataset loading to shorten job start times in enterprise environments.
3. Delivering 530,000 K IOPS in random reads, it sustains fast response under highly concurrent small-block workloads such as OLTP databases, metadata services, and dense VM deployments.
4. Rated at 3 DWPD, this SSD is built for write-intensive enterprise use, enabling sustained daily overwrites across its service life with lower risk of premature wear in logging, caching, and mixed-workload servers.
5. Built on 3D TLC NAND with a typical latency of 80 µs, it balances enterprise-grade capacity efficiency with predictably quick access times for latency-sensitive applications.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 640GB Higher capacity reference: 960GB In this series, the 800GB model sits at a practical sweet spot. Compared with the 640GB version, it provides noticeably better headroom for OS images, logs, metadata, and short-term workload growth, reducing the risk of early capacity pressure. Compared with the 960GB option, it usually delivers a more attractive cost-per-deployment while keeping enterprise-class sequential throughput and random IOPS at a very similar level. This makes 800GB especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, such as hosting boot and application volumes for roughly 60 to 80 general-purpose virtual machines.

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