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 7mm

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-1BC1ZA) is best suited for write-intensive cache tiers, database log/journal volumes, and virtualization boot or metadata drives, combining PCIe Gen4 NVMe responsiveness with 3 DWPD endurance and 4,380 TBW in a compact 3D TLC design. Compared with mainstream read-optimized Gen4 SSDs in the same class, it delivers materially higher sustained write headroom while still providing up to 5,500/1,500 MB/s and 530K/170K IOPS for latency-sensitive enterprise workloads.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 4,380 TBW and 3 DWPD, this 800GB SSD is designed to sustain very heavy write activity, including up to three full drive writes per day across its rated life. In typical system-boot, application, and general server workloads, actual daily writes are usually far lower, so this level of endurance provides a very large margin and supports long-term, worry-free operation. Its enterprise-grade reliability is reinforced by power-loss protection, which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during an unexpected power interruption, reducing the risk of corruption or incomplete writes. An UBER of 1.0E-17 indicates an extremely low probability of unrecoverable bit errors, supporting high data integrity requirements in business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe architecture, paired with multi-gigabyte sequential bandwidth, accelerates VM boot storms, database restores, and large-scale analytics ingestion by removing storage as a server-side bottleneck.
2. Its high random-read capability enables dense virtualization, metadata-heavy databases, and read-intensive cloud workloads to sustain fast response under heavy concurrent access.
3. The enterprise endurance rating supports sustained daily full-drive writes over years of operation, making it well suited for mixed-use transactional platforms, logging, and cache-heavy infrastructure.
4. Built on 3D TLC NAND, it balances enterprise-class capacity, performance consistency, and cost efficiency, giving data centers a practical fit for mainstream tier-1 workloads.
5. With ultra-low typical latency, the drive helps reduce application wait states and tail-response delays, which is especially valuable for real-time services, OLTP systems, and latency-sensitive clusters.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 400GB Higher capacity reference: 1.6TB In this series, the 800GB model sits at the sweet spot. Compared with the 400GB version, it gives materially better headroom for OS images, logs, metadata, and moderate workload growth, reducing the risk of early capacity pressure. Compared with the 1.6TB option, it preserves nearly the same enterprise-class throughput and IOPS characteristics while delivering a more efficient cost-to-performance balance. This makes 800GB especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, such as hosting boot and application volumes for roughly 40–60 mixed-workload virtual machines.

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