The Samsung 9100 Pro is a 2TB PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSD that’s about as fast as storage can get right now. Read and write speeds hover around 14,000 MB per second, which is double what PCIe 4.0 drives could do. The 2TB model is the sweet spot for most buyers. It’s big enough to store tons of media files or games, but it isn’t overwhelmingly expensive. One thing to note is that the version in this deal comes without a heatsink, so make sure your motherboard has one over the slot you’re installing it into, or pick one up separately if you’re planning to install the 9100 in a PS5.
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The biggest problem you’ll have with the Samsung 9100 Pro is actually using all that speed. It’s great if you’re working with raw photos or videos and need to move around multi-gigabyte files a ton. With games or regular desktop work, you’re going to see diminishing returns, but this is a fairly future-proof purchase since you won’t need faster read and write speeds for the foreseeable future. Samsung pairs the drive with a low-power LPDDR4X DRAM buffer, which keeps performance consistent during long sustained writes rather than dropping off once an internal cache fills.
