General

Brand	Micron
Model	7600 MAX
Capacity	25600GB
Usage Class	Data Center

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe Gen5 NVMe
Total Interface Bandwidth	32 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	E3.S

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	3
Total Bytes Written	140160 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	12000 MB/s
Sequential Write	7500 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	2100000
Random Write IOPS	650000
Average Latency	55 μs

Reliability

Mean Time Between Failures	2.5 Million Hours
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate	1.0×10⁻¹⁷
Power Loss Protection	Yes

Engineer's Note

The Micron 7600 MAX MTFDLBQ25T6THS-1BP1JABYY stands out in the Gen5 enterprise tier by combining 25.6TB of 3D TLC capacity with 3 DWPD endurance, 140,160 TBW, and up to 2.1M/650K random read/write IOPS—an uncommon balance of density, durability, and low-latency performance in a single U.2 drive. It is best suited for high-density AI data staging, large-scale virtualization, and mixed-workload OLTP environments where 12,000/7,500 MB/s sequential throughput and sustained write endurance enable server consolidation without moving to lower-endurance capacity SSDs.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 140,160 TBW and 3 DWPD, this SSD is designed for sustained enterprise write workloads and can handle writing its full capacity three times per day over its rated life. In typical real-world use such as a boot drive, virtualization host, analytics cache, or other mixed read/write deployment, this level of endurance means the drive is unlikely to be a wear-out concern for many years and is more than sufficient for long-term system-disk duty. On the reliability side, built-in power-loss protection (PLP) helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during an unexpected power interruption, reducing the risk of corruption and improving operational safety in server environments. Its enterprise-class UBER of 1.0E-17 indicates an extremely low probability of unrecoverable bit errors during reads, supporting high data integrity, while the 2.5-million-hour MTBF further reflects a design focused on dependable continuous operation.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen5 NVMe interface, paired with 12000 MB/s sequential read performance, enables ultra-fast data streaming that shortens checkpoint loading, analytics startup, and large-dataset scan times in modern enterprise platforms.
2. With 2,100,000 K random read IOPS, the drive can sustain massive parallel request bursts, making it ideal for high-concurrency databases, virtualized clusters, and latency-sensitive cloud services.
3. A 3 DWPD endurance rating gives enterprises the confidence to run write-intensive workloads such as logging, caching, and transactional processing every day without compromising service life.
4. Built on 3D TLC NAND, the SSD balances enterprise-grade performance, capacity efficiency, and reliability, making it a strong fit for scale-out infrastructure where both speed and cost control matter.
5. A typical latency of 55 µs helps reduce storage response time at the microsecond level, improving application consistency for real-time analytics, online transaction systems, and AI data pipelines.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 15.36TB Higher capacity reference: 30.72TB The 25.6TB model sits at a sweet spot in this SSD family. Compared with the 15.36TB option, it gives meaningfully more headroom for data growth, higher VM density, and longer refresh cycles without changing the expected enterprise-class read/write or random IOPS profile. Compared with the 30.72TB version, it usually delivers a more attractive cost-to-capacity balance while keeping performance essentially in the same tier. This makes 25.6TB especially well suited for mid-to-large virtualization clusters, scale-out database nodes, and high-density read-intensive storage pools.

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