Micron 960GB SSD NVMe M.2

A data center endurance monster that's overpriced and underpowered for normal people. Buy it for the TBW rating, not the speed.

The read side is solid. 5000 MB/s sequential reads and 520K random read IOPS put this drive in the upper-middle of the pack, and the random performance overall lands in the 83rd percentile. That's genuinely strong for a read-intensive enterprise workload. But the write performance is where things get weird. 1400 MB/s sequential writes and 82K random write IOPS are numbers we'd expect from a budget PCIe 3.0 drive, not something with a 7450 PRO badge. Micron clearly tuned this for read-heavy server tasks, and it shows. If you're moving big files around all day, this drive will feel sluggish compared to consumer drives at half the price.

Stack this against the Western Digital Black SN850X and the Crucial T500, and the Micron looks lost. The SN850X delivers faster writes, similar reads, and a 2TB option for less than the Micron's cheapest US listing. The Crucial T500 is even more affordable and beats the 7450 PRO on write speed by a wide margin. The Samsung 9100 PRO is the only competitor that plays in a similar enterprise-adjacent space, but it offers better all-around performance. If you need the endurance, the Micron makes sense. If you don't, any of these consumer drives will feel faster in daily use.

This is where it gets painful. The affordability percentile is 7th, which means this drive is more expensive than 93% of comparable SSDs. In the US, prices swing from $749 to $2,122 depending on the vendor, and the best deal we found is at the lower end of that range. In Canada, the spread is even wilder: CAD 1,181 to CAD 3,434. For that kind of money, you could buy a top-tier consumer Gen4 drive with double the capacity and faster writes. Unless your workload specifically demands enterprise-grade endurance and hardware encryption, the value proposition here is rough.

The Micron 7450 PRO is an enterprise drive wearing consumer clothes. It's built for data centers and workstations that hammer storage all day, not for someone who just wants their games to load faster. The headline here is endurance: 1700 TBW on a 960GB drive is absurdly good, and that 2,000,000 hour MTBF tells you Micron expects this thing to outlive your motherboard, your CPU, and possibly your interest in computing. But the write speed of 1400 MB/s is a weird flex for a PCIe 4.0 drive in 2025, and the price is all over the map.

If you're looking for a fast, affordable drive for gaming, content creation, or everyday use, this isn't it. Go get a WD Black SN850X or Crucial T500 instead. You'll get faster writes, more capacity for the money, and you won't miss the enterprise endurance. This Micron is for people who know exactly why they need 1700 TBW, and if you're not sure, you don't need it.

The Micron 7450 PRO is a specialist tool. If you're running a workstation that reads constantly and writes rarely, and you need the drive to last a decade, this is a defensible buy. The endurance numbers are genuinely impressive, and the hardware encryption is a nice touch for enterprise deployments. But for everyone else, this drive is too expensive, too slow on writes, and too small. You're paying a premium for durability you probably don't need.