Although I'd love to see larger and faster 4TB SSDs fall further in price and be as cheap as they were a few years ago, it's still good to see the latest and greatest models start to receive price discounts. A little late to the party, the Samsung 9100 Pro showed that it has some design pedigree behind it after performing superbly during our benchmark testing.
Falling to an all-time low price at Amazon, the ultrafast PCIe Gen 5 M.2 4TB 9100 Pro SSD from Samsung is now just $372,42. Checking the price comparison tool, the Camelizer, and also PCPartpicker, we can confirm the new price from Amazon is indeed an all-time low for this model. I have, however, seen the 9100 Pro with heatsink selling at a lower price previously in a limited-time flash sale.
The latest Gen 5.0 NVMe SSDs have incredibly fast transfer speeds, making the most out of the capabilities of the available PCIe Gen 5.0 pipeline bandwidth. You can see double the speeds of the previous Gen 4.0 drives in the transfer speed ratings of these drives. In gaming, the speed increases will be hardly perceptible, but in workloads such as video editing and rendering, the extra speed will be more noticeable.
Samsung's 9100 Pro uses its own (Presto) proprietary controller and offers stiff competition against the previously dominating Phison E26 controller. The 4TB Samsung 9100 Pro uses 236-layer Samsung TLC for the flash memory, with exceptional sequential read and write speeds of 14,800 MB/s read and 13,400 MB/s write. Random read/write is 2,200K/2,600K, respectively, and endurance is listed as 2,400 TBW.
In our benchmark testing, the 3DMark Storage Benchmark, which is a great test of SSDs intended for gaming use, measures real-world gaming performance. Each round in this benchmark stresses storage based on gaming activities, including loading games, saving progress, installing game files, and recording gameplay video streams. The results below show the Samsung 9100 Pro second in the charts, only being beaten by the same model with the included heatsink.
If you're looking for more information and benchmark testing results, check out our in-depth review of the Samsung 9100 Pro SSD. We gave the 9100 Pro 3.5 out of 5 stars, praising the power efficiency and good all-around performance of the drive. However, the 9100 Pro came across as slightly underwhelming, but only due to the fact that the drive was late to the Gen 5.0 party, and other SSDs were already available on the market with very impressive performance speeds.
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