Tuesday, February 25th 2025
Samsung's 9100 Pro PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Leaks Ahead of Official Launch
Although we've been aware of Samsung's 9100 Pro SSD since June last year, it appears that Samsung India got ahead of things and released a press release early about what we can only expect is a soon to launch product. The 9100 Pro is, as you'd expect, a PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD and it will be available in capacities of 1, 2 and 4 TB initially, but it appears that Samsung is also planning to release an 8 TB SKU, which would be a first for its Pro series of SSDs. Samsung will offer all SKUs with or without a heatsink and the 1 to 4 TB versions will come with an 8.8 mm thick heatsink, whereas the 8 TB model will come with an 11.25 mm thick heatsink.
Sadly, Samsung India only shared the sequential performance figures, and we're looking at read speeds of up to 14,800 MB/s and write speeds of up 13,400 MB/s, neither is sticking out from the competition already available in the market. The pulled press release also mentioned random read performance of 2,200K IOPS and random write performance of 2,600K IOPS. As the press release was intended for the Indian market, we only have pricing in Indian rupees and the 1 TB SKU will sell for 14,999 INR or around US$172, including 18 percent VAT, followed by the 2 TB SKU at 25,499 INR or US$293 and finally 49,999 INR or US$573 for the 4 TB SKU. No pricing was revealed for the upcoming 8 TB SKU.
Source:
Neowin via Samsung India
Sadly, Samsung India only shared the sequential performance figures, and we're looking at read speeds of up to 14,800 MB/s and write speeds of up 13,400 MB/s, neither is sticking out from the competition already available in the market. The pulled press release also mentioned random read performance of 2,200K IOPS and random write performance of 2,600K IOPS. As the press release was intended for the Indian market, we only have pricing in Indian rupees and the 1 TB SKU will sell for 14,999 INR or around US$172, including 18 percent VAT, followed by the 2 TB SKU at 25,499 INR or US$293 and finally 49,999 INR or US$573 for the 4 TB SKU. No pricing was revealed for the upcoming 8 TB SKU.
14 Comments on Samsung's 9100 Pro PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Leaks Ahead of Official Launch
I imagine tax and country specific markup is very high here, but this price seems absurdly high. I don't think we need to see 8 TB model's price.
Edit: Generally street prices tend to be a little lower than ones officially listed on manufacturer website.
However, what also matters to many people is heat, so much more in notebooks. Judging by the 990 Evo, chances are good that we'll see a nice cool new gen SSD from Samsung.
990 pro in that same reviews graphs show it being leader of the pack for qd1 reads in a meaningful way. 20-25% better than the next best drive.
anyways, i just think it will be interesting if this new samsung gen5 drive improves it further, i suspect it will.
Also would love to see the Wattage of this drive!