General

Brand	Micron
Model	7500 PRO
Capacity	960GB
Usage Class	Read-Intensive

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	1
Total Bytes Written	1752 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	6800 MB/s
Sequential Write	1400 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	800000
Random Write IOPS	85000
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 PRO 960GB (MTFDKCC960TGP-1BK1DABYY) is purpose-built for read-intensive cloud infrastructure such as boot/media tiers, content delivery edge nodes, and scale-out analytics caches, combining PCIe Gen4 performance of up to 6,800 MB/s read and 800K random read IOPS with the endurance headroom of 1 DWPD and 1,752 TBW. Built on 232-layer 3D TLC NAND, it delivers a stronger balance of latency, durability, and power-efficient capacity utilization than typical mixed-use Gen4 SSDs in this class, especially where sustained read throughput matters more than peak write bandwidth.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 1,752 TBW and 1 DWPD, the MTFDKCC960TGP-1BK1DABYY is designed to handle writing the full drive capacity once per day over its warranted service life, which is more than sufficient for typical OS, boot, application, and mixed enterprise read-heavy workloads. In practical terms, for common system-drive use cases, this level of endurance supports many years of stable operation and can comfortably cover long-term deployment without write-life concerns under normal usage patterns. For enterprise reliability, built-in power loss protection (PLP) helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during unexpected power interruptions, reducing the risk of corruption and improving system recovery integrity. Its ultra-low UBER of 1.0E-18, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates a very high standard of data integrity and device reliability, making it a dependable choice for professional and business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe architecture, paired with 6800 MB/s sequential read performance, accelerates large dataset ingestion and VM image loading for latency-sensitive enterprise platforms.
2. With 800,000 K IOPS in random reads, this drive sustains fast metadata access and high-concurrency transaction handling in virtualization, database, and analytics workloads.
3. A 1 DWPD endurance rating gives IT teams the confidence to run steady daily write activity throughout the service life without overprovisioning for reliability.
4. Built on 232-layer 3D TLC NAND, the SSD balances enterprise-grade capacity, power efficiency, and cost control for large-scale data center deployments.
5. Its typical latency of 80 µs helps reduce storage response time, improving application consistency for real-time services and mixed-workload environments.

Capacity Sweet

Lower-capacity reference: 480GB Higher-capacity reference: 1.92TB The 960GB model sits at the sweet spot in this SSD family. Compared with the 480GB version, it gives meaningfully more headroom for OS images, application stacks, logs, and data growth, reducing the risk of early capacity pressure in always-on enterprise environments. Compared with the 1.92TB option, it delivers a better balance of acquisition cost, usable capacity, and broadly similar enterprise performance characteristics. This makes it especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, such as hosting boot and application volumes for roughly 40-60 business workloads.

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