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-1BC1ZABYY) is purpose-built for write-intensive metadata, logging, caching, and journal-tier workloads where 3 DWPD endurance, 4,380 TBW, and low-latency PCIe Gen4 NVMe responsiveness matter more than raw capacity. Compared with mainstream read-centric TLC SSDs in the same class, it delivers a stronger endurance-to-capacity profile while still sustaining 5,500 MB/s read, 1,500 MB/s write, and up to 530K/170K random IOPS for consistently predictable mixed-workload performance.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 4,380 TBW, this SSD can sustain approximately 1.2 TB of host writes per day for 10 years, which is far beyond the write volume of a typical OS, boot, or application drive. In practical terms, under normal enterprise system-disk workloads, procurement teams can expect ample endurance headroom and long service life without wear-related concerns. Its enterprise reliability profile is strengthened by power-loss protection, which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during unexpected outages, reducing the risk of corruption and unclean shutdown events. The specified UBER of 1.0E-17 means an extremely low probability of unrecoverable read errors, supporting strong data integrity and dependable operation in business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe architecture unlocks multi-gigabyte data streaming, helping enterprise platforms accelerate VM boot, database scans, and analytics pipelines with far less I/O bottlenecking.
2. Its strong random-read capability enables high-concurrency workloads such as OLTP databases, metadata services, and virtual desktop environments to sustain fast response under heavy user demand.
3. A 3 DWPD endurance profile makes it well suited for write-intensive enterprise use cases, giving IT teams the confidence to run logging, caching, and mixed-workload applications continuously over the drive’s service life.
4. Built on 3D TLC NAND, the drive balances enterprise-grade capacity, performance consistency, and cost efficiency, making large-scale deployment more practical in modern data centers.
5. With typical latency in the tens of microseconds, the drive helps reduce tail response times in latency-sensitive applications like real-time trading, search indexing, and distributed storage.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity: 480GB Higher capacity: 960GB In this series, the 800GB model sits at a practical sweet spot. Compared with the 480GB version, it gives meaningfully more headroom for OS images, logs, metadata, and moderate workload growth, reducing the risk of early capacity pressure. Compared with the 960GB option, it usually delivers a more attractive cost-to-usable-capacity balance while keeping enterprise-class sequential and random performance broadly in line with the rest of the family. It is well suited for mid-scale virtualization, such as hosting boot and application volumes for around 60 to 80 general-purpose virtual machines.

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