Samsung launched an SSD final week that simply occurs to be a ‘Samsung first’. It’s the Samsung 9100 Professional Gen 5 SSD and we have now reviewed this beforehand in its 4TB capability. Samsung has a repute of being probably the greatest within the business and we’d guess that their gross sales mirror such by a wholesome margin. Deservedly, Samsung sometimes attains our Editor’s Selection Award as being an business chief. This Samsung SSD is a bit totally different although. It breaks the mildew as Samsung has needed to do one thing they haven’t prior to attain this 8TB capability.
Samsung, for the primary time ever, is advertising a two-sided retail SSD and this was completely essential as a way to make an 8TB SSD obtainable to the patron. After a bit of dialogue with my shut pal Jon at Tweaktown actually, we checked again to search out that the final two-sided M.2 SSD Samsung had manufactured was the shopper XP941 M.2 means again in 2013, and solely the 512GB capability was double-sided. Let’s take a fast have a look at the facet view of our latest Samsung 9100 Professional 8TB SSD:
The Samsung 9100 Professional 8TB Gen5 SSD comprises two packages of their 236-layer eighth Gen TLC 3D V-NAND flash reminiscence on either side of the SSD, every being 2TB to attain the 8TB capability. That is the one means they might market such. This can be a good factor, however undoubtedly limits this SSD with respect to sure laptops. This picture depicts 9100 Professional 8TB SSD placement in our 2025 LG gram Professional 2-in-1 Ultrabook:
On this state of affairs the V-NAND sits immediately on the board and screwing it in can’t be achieved with out injury to the SSD and/or board. Is that this a giant factor? No. This ultrabook was constructed for single-sided SSDs and there are loads different laptops that the 9100 Professional may match completely. Samsung was nicely conscious of this state of affairs and made the suitable option to market the 9100 Professional 8TB in any case.
The Samsung 9100 Professional is a PCIe 5.0 (Gen5) x4 (4-lane) M.2 SSD of the 2280 (22mm extensive x 80mm lengthy) kind issue and it makes use of the newest NVMe 2.0 working protocol. This SSD is accessible in 1, 2, 4, and 8TB capacities. Efficiency is listed at 14800MB/s learn and 13400MB/s write together with 2200K IOPS learn and 2600K IOPS write for the 8TB capability and efficiency specs are variable relying on SSD capability.
The Samsung 9100 Professional comprises the proprietary ‘Presto’ S4LY027 Gen5 NVMe SSD controller. It additionally contains 4 items of 2TB Samsung Gen 8 236-layer TLC 3D V-NAND flash reminiscence and one piece of Samsung LPDDR4 DRAM cache which mimics the drive capability in a TB/GB style. Fort instance, our 8TB SSD comprises a whopping 8GB of DRAM cache.
The Samsung 9100 Professional runs at 2400MT/s, comprises AES 256-bit full disk encryption, has a five-year guarantee and speaks to 600TBW (terabytes written) per TB of drive capability. Our 8TB pattern has a 4,800TBW score (600×8). Samsung additionally offers their Samsung Magician for downlaod freed from cost, and true energy customers may think about downloading this utility and setting the 9100 Professional at ‘Full Efficiency Mode’ as proven right here:
Checking Amazon, we are able to discover the 9100 Professional priced at $129.99 (1TB), $199.99 (2TB), and $399.99 for the 4TB model, with an added heatsink for all capacities pushing the value $20 larger. On the time of this report, there was no inventory as of but for the 8TB, however MSRP for this capability is $999.99. Test Amazon for availability and pricing.
Let’s get to some speeds….
