The Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB SSD is the first PCIe Gen 5 consumer drive with a huge 8TB capacity and performance that rivals some of the fastest SSDs
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The Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB SSD is the first PCIe Gen 5 consumer drive with a huge 8TB capacity and performance that rivals some of the fastest SSDs currently on the market.Excellent All-Around PerformanceConfigurable Via Samsung MagicianHigh CapacityRelatively Cool RunningPriceyMust Enable High-Power Mode For Best Perf8TB Model Is Double-SidedWe took a look at a 4TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD recently and granted it an Editor’s Choice award. That 4TB Samsung drive we tested performed exceptionally well across a variety of workloads, and its relatively low power and single-sided configuration made it suitable for an array of form factors, including some notebooks and game consoles. Samsung’s Magician SSD utility also adds some additional features and controls to these SSDs, like the ability to tweak the drive for higher performance or lower power. Today we’re going to take a look at the big-daddy of Samsung’s 9100 Pro line-up, the top-end 8TB model. Although they’re part of the same family and leverage all of the same technologies, the Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB SSD is somewhat different, over and above its higher capacity. Take a look.Samsung 9100 Pro SSD Specifications And FeaturesFind The Samsung 9100 Pro @ Amazon
The Samsung 9100 Pro SSD series feature Samsung’s latest V-NAND LC flash memory. To be specific, the drives are equipped with 2,400MT/s, 1024Gbit V8 V-NAND. Samsung’s latest V-NAND offers lower latency for reads and writes, at similar or lower power than its predecessors. The 8TB drive you see pictured here has four, 2TB flash packages, two of which reside on the same side of the PCB as the controller and 8GB LPDD4X DRAM cache (1GB per 1TB of capacity), two of which are on the bottom of the PCB.
9100 Pro series drives are outfitted with Samsung’s own „Presto“ controller, which is manufactured on the company’s 5nm process node. It features an 8-channel design, with a native PCIe Gen5 interface, and a 5-core ARM 32-bit Cortex-R8 CPU complex. The drives themselves use the common 2280 form factor, and will be sold as both bare drives (like you see here) or with a heatsink. Due to the relatively low-power controller and NAND, the 9100 Pro is suitable for game consoles and laptops.
The Presto controller supports all of the features you’d expect from a modern SSD, like TRIM, garbage collection, S.M.A.R.T., etc., in addition to various encryption technologies. Depending on the capacity, the drives also feature 1GB – 8GB of discrete LPDDR4X DRAM cache, with the 8TB drive you see here packing the maximum config.
Like many previous-gen Samsung SSDs, the controller has a nickel coating that helps to dissipate heat, and the underside of the drives has a thin plate hidden underneath a decal to aid in cooling. The drives also support Samsung’s Dynamic Thermal Guard feature, which helps manage power and thermals based on the drives‘ workload at the time, to minimize any potential thermal throttling.
Samsung 9100 Pro drives also feature TurboWrite 2.0 technology, similar to some previous-gen drives. TurboWrite 2.0 uses a portion of the drive’s V-NAND as an SLC write buffer, which results in improved write performance, as long as the buffer isn’t exhausted.
