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 is purpose-built for write-intensive cache, logging, and metadata tiers in CDN edge nodes, virtualized storage, and database journal workloads, combining 3 DWPD endurance with 4,380 TBW in a compact PCIe Gen4 NVMe footprint. Compared with typical mainstream TLC enterprise SSDs in the same class, it delivers a stronger balance of sustained durability and low-latency responsiveness, with up to 5500/1500 MB/s sequential throughput and 530K/170K random IOPS for consistently heavy mixed-write operations.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 4,380 TBW and 3 DWPD, the MTFDKCC800TFS-1BC1ZABYYR is designed to handle very heavy write activity far beyond what a typical OS, boot, or application drive would generate in daily use. In practical terms, for common system-disk and mainstream server workloads, this level of endurance supports many years of operation with substantial write headroom, giving buyers confidence that normal usage will remain well within the drive’s design limits. Its enterprise reliability profile is further strengthened by power-loss protection, which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during an unexpected power interruption, reducing the risk of corruption and unplanned recovery events. An UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates an enterprise-class error rate and overall reliability level suitable for business-critical storage environments where data integrity and uptime matter.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe interface gives this drive the bandwidth needed to keep virtualization clusters, analytics nodes, and AI data pipelines fed without the storage bus becoming a bottleneck.
2. Its sequential read performance enables much faster movement of large datasets, helping shorten backup restore windows, accelerate media processing, and reduce application startup time for data-heavy workloads.
3. Its random read capability is tuned for transaction-intensive environments, sustaining responsive performance for dense databases, high-traffic web platforms, and heavily consolidated virtual machines.
4. With enterprise-class write endurance rated for multiple full-drive writes per day, it is well suited for write-heavy use cases such as logging, OLTP, caching tiers, and mixed-workload infrastructure that must run continuously.
5. Built on 3D TLC NAND and backed by very low typical latency, it balances capacity, endurance, and consistently fast response times to support predictable QoS in latency-sensitive enterprise applications.

Capacity Sweet

In the same product family, the next lower capacity is 400GB and the next higher capacity is 1.6TB. At 800GB, this SSD sits in the sweet spot of the lineup. Compared with the 400GB model, it gives meaningfully more headroom for OS images, logs, metadata, and workload growth, reducing early capacity pressure. Compared with the 1.6TB version, it keeps acquisition cost and $/deployed-node under better control while delivering essentially the same enterprise-class sequential and random performance profile. It is especially well suited for medium-scale clusters, such as boot and application storage for about 40 to 60 virtualization hosts or edge servers.

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