Samsung’s new 9100 PRO Series solid-state drives (SSDs) embody the corporate’s first consumer-grade 8TB NVMe SSD. The most recent fashions use the speedy PCIe 5.0 customary, which — until you train AI models for a dwelling — is sort of definitely overkill to your PC wants.
The Samsung 9100 PRO collection provides as much as double the storage of its predecessor, the 990 PRO line. It launches in 1TB, 2TB and 4TB fashions, with the 8TB ones not arriving till later this 12 months. Every tier ships in fashions with and and not using a heatsink (whether or not you want that can depend upon whether or not your motherboard contains one for NVMe drives).
The corporate says the 9100 PRO SSDs have sequential learn speeds of as much as 14,800 MB/s and sequential write speeds of as much as 13,400 MB/s. Their random learn speeds are as quick as 2,200K IOPS (input-output per second), with random write speeds as much as 2,600K IOPS. The corporate says the 9100 PRO SSDs are as much as 49 p.c extra power-efficient than the 990 PRO line and have a profile as slim as 0.35 inches (round 8.9mm).
However as Engadget’s Igor Bonifacic wrote in our SSD buying guide, only a few real-world use instances demand these speeds. (Assume individuals coaching large-scale AI fashions and the like.) Because it stands, PCIe 4.0 drives already benchmark far past what most players and different client makes use of require. In addition they price about half as a lot.
The primary 9100 PRO SSDs arrive in March: 1TB ($200), 2TB ($300) and 4TB ($550). Variants with a heatsink tack an additional $20 onto these costs. As for the 8TB tier, which Samsung hasn’t introduced pricing for, it does not arrive till the second half of the 12 months.
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