Samsung

Samsung 9100 Pro 2TB

Samsung 9100 ProReleased March 18, 2025Launch price $299.99 (2TB without heatsink, price at launch (Tom's Hardware))

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3DMark Storage 6,371points#5 of 11 PCMark 10 Storage 6,597points#3 of 11 Sustained write 1,867MB/s#5 of 10 CrystalDiskMark sequential Read14,287MB/s#4 of 9

Samsung's first PCIe 5.0 drive for PCs, on its own controller and flash. It reads as fast as any Gen5 drive in sequential tests and topped Tom's PCMark 10 chart at launch, but its sustained write after the cache runs out is closer to a fast Gen4 drive than to the Phison and Silicon Motion Gen5 rivals.

Against the line-up

3DMark Storage points

#5 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB8,100
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB7,337
  3. 3T705 2TB6,739
  4. 4T710 2TB6,647
  5. 59100 Pro 2TB6,371
  6. 6T500 2TB5,068

PCMark 10 Storage points

#3 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB7,694
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB6,893
  3. 39100 Pro 2TB6,597
  4. 4T710 2TB6,583

Sustained write MB/s

#5 of 10 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1T500 2TB4,066
  2. 2T710 2TB4,050
  3. 3T705 2TB4,029
  4. 4SN8100 2TB3,892
  5. 59100 Pro 2TB1,867
  6. 6990 EVO Plus 2TB1,777

CrystalDiskMark sequential Read · MB/s

#4 of 9 · StorageReview; † another publication
  1. 1SN8100 2TB14,307
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB14,302
  3. 3T710 2TB14,293
  4. 49100 Pro 2TB14,287
  5. 5T705 2TB14,163

3DMark DirectStorage Storage to VRAM, GDeflate · GB/s

#4 of 8 · StorageReview
  1. 1SN8100 2TB26.1
  2. 2T710 2TB26
  3. 3T705 2TB25.8
  4. 49100 Pro 2TB23.8
  5. 5Renegade G5 2TB23.3

LLM load time DeepSeek R1 32B · s, lower is better

#2 of 6 · StorageReview
  1. 1SN8100 2TB4.29
  2. 29100 Pro 2TB4.37
  3. 3T710 2TB4.46
  4. 4Renegade G5 2TB4.65
  5. 5990 Pro 2TB5.11
  6. 6P310 2TB5.48

The whole SSDs line-up side by side, with prices

Every benchmark

Quoted from the publications that ran them; we don't test hardware ourselves. Figures from different publications were run on different systems and scenes, so compare within a row's source.

CrystalDiskMark sequential

SettingResultSource
Read 14,719MB/s KitGuru, Mar 18, 2025
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, Gigabyte AORUS X670E Xtreme
CrystalDiskMark 8 default test (SEQ1M Q8T1)
14,287MB/s Tom's Hardware, Mar 18, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Peak sequential read, 1MB QD8
Write 13,494MB/s KitGuru, Mar 18, 2025
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, Gigabyte AORUS X670E Xtreme
CrystalDiskMark 8 default test (SEQ1M Q8T1)
13,175MB/s Tom's Hardware, Mar 18, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Peak sequential write, 1MB QD8

3DMark Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run 4,779points StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero
StorageReview tested the 4TB model
6,371points Tom's Hardware, Mar 18, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K

PCMark 10 Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 6,597points Tom's Hardware, Mar 18, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K

Sustained write

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 1,867MB/s Tom's Hardware, Mar 18, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Steady state: average MB/s after 15 minutes of 1MiB sequential writes at QD32

LLM load time

SettingResultSource
DeepSeek R1 32B
one source		 4.37s StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero
Average of 10 loads. StorageReview tested the 4TB model

3DMark DirectStorage

SettingResultSource
Storage to VRAM, GDeflate
one source		 23.8GB/s StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero
StorageReview tested the 4TB model

Sources

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