It has been 21 months to reach the first PCIE drives with us. Since 21 long months, since the main T700, Gigabytes and the same specific SSD landed on our beaches, which were offered to match excellent order performance, small fans, and eye -giving prices tags. Since then, we have seen repetition on repetition, price reduction on price reduction, and a permanent series of devices with better performance, which can be achieved with standards.
And still, 21 months, without the answer to Samsung. Why is it really difficult to say. This brand, without any doubt, was incredibly dominant during the last day of the PCI 3.0 ERA. With 960 Pro and Evulin, he performed some serious performance, all have solid endurance and support for a heavy warranty. Since then we have an amazing thing to solve the PCI 4.0, in the choice of 990 EVOs and EVO Plus, some strange hybridized twin channel 5.0 drives, and about it. At least so far there is nothing to write home.
Finally, the Samsung 9100 Pro line has arrived, and oh boy, is it a lot to talk about? Well, so perhaps this is not a kind introduction to a faulty blighter, definitely not the only brand that lacks the appropriate 5.0 solution (here is looking at you, Western digital, or should I say Sandesk?). But its domination so quickly, after the formation of some excellent SSD, I really expected to be provided at the time of launch. Not almost two years later. Right now, it seems that we are at the end of the 5.0 line, with PCI 6.0 on the horizon, and 5.0 bandout limits, for anyway, for anyway, the midway has already been removed in the middle of the previous year.
So what was the hold up? In one estimate, the development of the controller and the nand. The 9100 Pro is the same 236 layer TLC V-Nand used by Samsung in his 990 EVO Plus line. This is an effective Nand package, which is available in at least 2 TB capabilities, allowing the company to tap two of them at 4TB from one side. It is also sticky. Compare this to something, such as Kuxia’s 218 Layer Book 8, such as courser MP 700, and sow things into a physical space as a whole. As far as space is concerned, this is not an effective design.
9100 Pro 2 TB Sixty
The ability: 2 TB
Interface: PCIE 5.0 x4
Memory Controller: Samsung Maliki (Practice)
Flash memory: Samsung 236 layer TLC V-Nand
Rating Performance: Read 14,700 MB/s Permanent, 13,400 MB/s Permanent Writing
Personal: 1200 TBW
Guidance: guidance Five years
ELSE: $ 320 | 0 260
Samsung also paired 9100 with its dedicated LPDDr4x cash memory. It comes in about 1 GB per TB of total storage on the drive. What we can tell from our own testing, with a heavy 365 GB-Sedo-SLC cache on the drive (or even though), for at least 2 TB variations. Effectively, what it does, the SSD controller is allowed to write and write data faster data using this combined cash as a high -speed buffer. If it needs to be drowned in the flash, to help the transfer of writing, nevertheless need to sink into a large, slightly high effective seedo-SILC cache (TLC is notorious to handle such actions). Theoretically, it is also possible to meet the PSLC layer, but, you need to transmit a plenty of data to see the number of these sequable performance.
Nevertheless, this is a controller that has not finally been given the ability to launch Samsung 5.0 drive. It is effectively made by Sammy’s own 5 NM manufacturing process, in conjunction with eight channel design, which we have seen with 990 EVOs Plus and its predecessor, although with 5.0 contacts instead.
As far as the capacity is concerned, we have all this spread from 1 TB to one (yet unmanaged) 8 TB solution. The latter drive, will inevitably have to be a dual -sided design, just to adjust these nand packages. They are also not cheap, and for 4 TB variations in the United States, without a hat sink, you are paying 4 0.14 in GB storage. It is more than a major T700 choice in 2 TB, of which 1 0.11, or courser’s MP700 elite at $ 0.13 per GB. Although yes, it is worth saying that this drive eliminates these two SSDs on the configuration front. If you choose a hat -sink version (which are in our tests here), you are paying about $ 0.16 per GB, Och.
“Performance is ready for a new era”, The tagline that receives the upper part of the 9100 product page says. Well, may be, just one year or too late. Let me start with positives: Both 2 TB and 4 TB variations are absolutely covered in order performance. They are extraordinarily fast. In the Christaldsk Mark, on average 14,322 MB/s 2 TB of land data, and 13,318 MB/s on reading. This I have experienced the fastest drive to date. However, which is less impressive, and much more important for any gamer, has a more important metric, random 4K performance, which has an average of 88 MB/second on reading 2 TB unit and is amazingly low, 237 MB/second. This is not very good, for the drive which means it is “fast”. On the contrary, I have tested every other Fiest -based SSD that faces written pace in the range of 300 MB/Second and above. In fact, every SSD I have ever experienced here, sitting around the mark, even 4.0 drives. This is not ideal.
A very raw imitation SE, setting performance is useful if your files stand consistently, and you are accessing them as well as one of them at a time. Random 4K performance (on 1 thread) is like accessing files to load a scene. It is pulling all these random assets, tasks and processes from full place, and writing on the drive as it does. That is why for us, random 4K performance is much more valuable metric. It is also translated along with it, even with these rapid settings, about two -year T700 of the main important, at a time of the load of about 7 seconds, with 7.5 for the 9100 Pro.
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If buy …
✅ You work as a creative: This makes it an ideal choice for those working in Adobe for the speed of the wild layout and many drums.
❌ You are a game: Slowly random 4K performance hurts the long -term, and it is a bit of a specialist for us than the gamers here.
Then we go to the temperature, and from here things get interesting. I was fortunate to get two SSDs for the test. 2 TB and 4 TB without a heat sink. Theoretically, if you have a slightly traix set, you can remove the hat sink, but I have decided to test with it, and 4 TB uses the routine using my Mother Board built -in heat sink. Throughout the entire process of bench marking, the hat is at the top of 2 TB 82C with a sink, which is average for the PCI 5.0 drive. 4 TB, though, with the Mother Board heat sink, relaxed at 61C comfortably. Compare it to Fircuda 540, and he arranged 83 C under the same mobile heat sink.
It tells us two things: O Lyl, the added heat sink is a bit nutritious, and second, when it is properly cool, it is an effective drive. Although the heat -sinked variety of costs, I would recommend to choose to ignore this additional additional, and instead bury it under the solid, reliable, thick, mobile heat sink.
So, has Samsung been released by himself? Is this the new king of performance? Well, the kind. On the paper, that sequence is inspiring. This is a great marketing number, and if the rights that are bouncing are your thing, or you can benefit from this kind of pace, yes, I think it’s a solid option. But the problem is that it only lacks this spark.
We have waited so much to turn an impressive drive from Samsung, some legendary success and some excellent performance with the matriculation, blew the door of the barn, and nevertheless, what we have received is fine, okay. It’s just good, and it’s a problem, because if you just got a good PCI 5.0 SSD, you are ready. You don’t need it. Why buy it? Samsung needed to come out with this drive not today, but a year ago. Now, it just needs more.
