General

Brand	Micron
Model	7500 MAX
Capacity	800GB
Usage Class	Mixed Use

Interface

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

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	U.3 15mm

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	232-layer 3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	3
Total Bytes Written	4380 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	7000 MB/s
Sequential Write	5900 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	1100000
Random Write IOPS	400000
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 7500 MAX 800GB (MTFDKCC800TGQ-1BK1DABYY) is purpose-built for latency-sensitive write-intensive workloads such as database logging, metadata journaling, and cache tiers, combining 3 DWPD endurance, 4,380 TBW, and Micron’s 232-layer 3D TLC NAND in a compact PCIe Gen4 NVMe platform. Compared with typical mixed-use Gen4 SSDs in the same class, it delivers a stronger write-endurance profile while sustaining up to 7,000/5,900 MB/s and 1.1M/400K IOPS, making it a better fit for consistently high-IOPS enterprise deployment where write durability and QoS matter most.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 4,380 TBW and 3 DWPD, the MTFDKCC800TGQ-1BK1DABYY is designed for sustained write-intensive enterprise workloads and provides a very strong margin for typical server use. In practical terms, for common OS, boot, logging, caching, and application-drive scenarios, this level of endurance supports long-term operation with confidence and is more than sufficient to serve as a reliable system drive for many years under normal data center conditions. This model also includes power-loss protection, which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during an unexpected power interruption, reducing the risk of corruption and improving system recovery integrity. Its enterprise-class UBER of 1.0E-18 means an exceptionally low uncorrectable bit error rate, supporting high data integrity expectations for business-critical environments where reliability and consistency are essential.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe architecture, paired with top-tier sequential bandwidth, accelerates large dataset movement and shortens VM boot, analytics scan, and checkpoint restore times in performance-sensitive enterprise servers.
2. Its high random read capability enables databases, virtualization clusters, and real-time analytics platforms to sustain massive parallel query traffic with faster response under heavy concurrency.
3. With enterprise-grade write endurance rated for multiple full-drive rewrites per day, it is well suited for write-intensive workloads such as OLTP, logging, caching, and mixed-use cloud infrastructure.
4. The 232-layer 3D TLC NAND balances density, power efficiency, and reliability, giving data centers a strong combination of scalable capacity and predictable cost per workload.
5. The ultra-low typical latency helps reduce tail-response time, improving consistency for latency-sensitive applications such as high-frequency transactions, metadata services, and distributed storage systems.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 400GB Higher capacity reference: 1.6TB The 800GB model sits at the sweet spot of this enterprise SSD family. Compared with the 400GB version, it gives noticeably more headroom for OS images, application binaries, logs, and short-term data growth, reducing capacity pressure in steady-state enterprise workloads. Compared with the 1.6TB option, it preserves essentially the same class of sequential and random performance while offering a better balance of acquisition cost, usable endurance efficiency, and deployment flexibility. It is especially well suited for a mid-sized virtualization cluster, such as boot and infrastructure storage for about 40 to 60 virtual machines.

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