Samsung Joins The PCIe 5.0 Gang With The 9100 Pro
The Controller And 236-layer 3-bit MLC Built In-house
Samsung have taken a bit of time to release a consumer grade PCIe 5.0 x4 SSD, but the 9100 Pro has finally arrived. The 2TB drive is rated for 14,700MB/s sequential reads and up to 13,400MB/s sequential writes, which would make it one of the fastest consumer drives on the market. KitGuru’s testing proved that the claims are accurate, at least according to some CrystalDiskMark tests, and were also happy to see the drive only consumes around 8W of power.
While there were CDM tests that did match the stated specifications, other tests and tools looking at random reads and writes resulted in lower results. In some the 9100 Pro still finished at or near the top of the charts, in others it did not fare so well. Take a detailed look at the performance of the 2TB version of the Samsung 9100 Pro here.
The last Samsung drive we looked at, the 990 EVO Plus, was a kind of halfway house between Gen 4 and Gen 5 as it used a Gen 4 x4 / Gen 5 x2 interface. Now, however, we have Samsung's first full-blown Gen 5 x4 consumer drive to hand, the SSD 9100 Pro. Let's put it through its paces and find out just how fast this drive is.
