Isn’t competitors a terrific factor? I’ve at all times thought-about the event of flash expertise as considerably a sport. It’s merely one firm attempting to create a quicker, bigger and extra dependable SSD than that of which was simply launched by one other. I keep in mind sitting in a enterprise assembly at Samsung HQ in Seoul, South Korea, a few years again and arguing as to why they wouldn’t manufacture 1TB SSDs at that time. The SSD was the Samsung XP941 and their high capability was 512GB, whereas others had jumped to 1TB. I assumed they have been lacking out on such a terrific alternative. Was I incorrect!
An amusing side-note was that they ‘blacklisted’ TSSDR for a brief interval after that as I had gotten my arms on, and posted their confidential XP941 inside spec sheet (that didn’t say CONFIDENTIAL wherever on it). It has been a completely wonderful trip having a entrance row seat within the flash enterprise for greater than 18 years. Right now, we’re going to introduce you to the most important and baddest SSD on the block, the Samsung 9100 Professional Gen5 SSD. Baddest, after all being an excellent factor and we’ve had it in hand and have been testing the heck out of it for a number of weeks now. To the tune of 48TBW in actual fact, which is one heck of a similar to our regular take a look at state of affairs that could be decrease single digits. We aren’t going to make you wait…test this out! That is the perfect CDM benchmark we’ve ever acquired.
It’s a excellent signal that that is certain to be one wonderful SSD. Would you imagine that we have been one of many first traditionally to publish a Samsung SSD overview? I needed to dig means however our first posted overview of a Samsung SSD was on the Samsung 64GB SATA II FlashSSD on April 20, 2008 and its high velocity was 100MB learn and 90MB write. Efficiency has jumped 140x since. The Samsung FlashSSD price $1130 means again then…for 64GB. On reflection at that price method, our latest Samsung 9100 Professional 4TB SSD would price a mere $72,320 at the moment at $17.65/GB. How far we’ve come. Okay…again to the Samsung 9100 Professional Gen5 4TB SSD…
The Samsung 9100 Professional is a PCIe 5.0 x4 (4-lane) NVMe 2.0 kind issue 2280 (22mm broad x 80mm lengthy) SSD that’s obtainable proper now in capacities of 1,2, and 4TB. An 8TB model is predicted to be obtainable submit Q2 2025 and we might be more than pleased to overview that on launch Samsung!. Listed specs converse to as much as 14.8GB/s learn and 13.4GB/s write with as much as 2200K learn and 2600K write IOPS. These speeds drop barely for 1/2TB capacities with these numbers listed right here.
The Samsung 9100 Professional has a hefty TurboWrite 2.0 cache buffer of 114GB for the 1TB, 226GB for the 2TB and 442GB for the 4GB capability with the worth not but recognized for the 8TB capability. It has AES 256-Bit full disk encryption, and is TCG/Opal 2.0, and Encrypted drive (IEEE1667) appropriate.
The Samsung 9100 Professional accommodates Samsung’s in-house Presto PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD controller numbered 54LY027. That is an 8-channel controller working at 2400MT/s.
It is a single-sided SSD which accommodates two items of Samsung 236-layer V8 TLC NAND flash reminiscence alongside a LPDDR4 DRAM chip that has a buffer measurement matching the scale of the SSD (i.e. 4TB capability = 4GB DRAM). The 9100 Professional operates at 9 watts lively learn and eight.2 watts lively write which ought to make it a considerably cooler SSD than we had seen prior, particularly since it’s single-sided. As a comparable, the 9100 Professional has 49% extra energy effectivity than the earlier 990 Professional.
Endurance speaks to 600TBW for the 1TB which doubles for each capability bump and this SSD comes with a 5-year restricted guarantee. MSRP pricing is strictly what we don’t wish to see and is about at $219.99 (1TB), $319.99 (2TB), and $569.99 (4TB) with pricing for the 8TB model to be introduced on launch. You might also see costs bump $20 if you’re shopping for the 9100 Professional with the included heatsink.
We anticipate this pricing to stage off so it’s extra in tune to regular SSD costs however who is aware of. Worth and demand are unusual mattress fellows. Verify Amazon pricing and availability.
Samsung Magician can also be a free and really helpful software program bundle obtainable right here. You could have seen from the above CDM that we’ve set this SSDs overprovisioning at 10% via this software program.
Let’s get to some specs…
