Samsung 9100 Professional: Two-minute assessment

It’s totally onerous to say {that a} drive that sequentially reads practically 12,500MB a second would not stay as much as expectations, particularly not when its efficiency in all places else is best than the rest I’ve examined, however that sticker on the field of the Samsung 9100 Professional that guarantees as much as 14,800MB/s sticks within the craw of an in any other case excellent M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSD.

Beginning at $199.99 for a 1TB capability drive (about £155/AU$315), the 9100 Professional is Samsung’s first ‘true’ PCIe 5.0 SSD after the Samsung 990 EVO and Samsung 990 EVO Plus. Each these drives are PCIe 5.0, however they solely use two PCIe 5.0 lanes, which limits their sensible speeds to PCIe 4.0 requirements.

The 9100 Professional, in the meantime, is a full-fat PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 drive, which means its theoretical max velocity for sequential reads is upwards of roughly 15,000MB/s and 14,000MB/s for sequential writes (this quantity has been edging up over the previous 3-5 years, so take that theoretical most with a grain of salt at this level).

Samsung promises that its newest drive can hit as much as 14,800MB/s sequential learn and 13,400MB/s sequential write, and the Samsung 9100 Professional will get there considerably. It clocks in a max sequential write fee of 13,066MB/s in my testing, however the 9100 Professional’s most sequential learn velocity solely hit 12,427MB/s. That is nonetheless extremely quick—however, it isn’t what’s promised on the field.