Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great ssd to future proof for any new pc build with the 5 series nvidia or 9 series amd

The drive is fast and easy to install. there are utils available for advanced control from the manufacturer.

I wanted this and glad I got it just wish I bought another

Can't confirm advertised speeds since my MacBook Pro TB4 ports max out around 5000 MB/s.

It’s a excellent drive but too expensive for the price

Good product but I did not come with that screw that i needed to install

I have issues with a dead drive form corsair. I bought this it's at best buy dorp save $20

This Samsung 9100 Pro SSD (9100 Pro) is not just the fastest I’ve ever used, it’s leaps ahead. It has one major problem though – it’s so cutting edge it’s only useful right now to a small group of users, though that will change as soon as computers catch up. Those who can benefit right now need to use a PCIe 5.0 equipped computer, capable of taking advantage of the 9100 Pro’s speed, and be able to financially rationalize it’s cost premium over the next fastest Samsung SSD, which is no slouch, just not as advanced as the 9100 Pro. USE IN THUNDERBOLT 4 ENCLOSURE vs INTERNAL PCIe 5.0 M.2 NVMe SLOT The 9100 Pro is backwards compatible and will work on any computer or external enclosure with an M.2 NVMe slot, but using the 9100 Pro in these situations, in my mind, is wasted money and speed. Consider this – I did quick benchmark speed test in a PCIe 5.0 equipped desktop routinely got nearly 12K Mb/s sequential read and write, which is only about 15% off from its top theoretical speed. Amazing. But when I put the 9100 Pro in a Thunderbolt 4 enclosure, which until very recently was the speed “gold standard” for portable devices, it “only” registered about 2.8K Mb/s sequential read and write. That’s over 400% slower performance than when it’s in a PCIe 5.0 equipped computer. From these tests, it’s clear to me that the “Pro” in the 9100 Pro’s name is all business and not meaningless marketing jargon. It is a “real deal” pro-level product that demands specific hardware to reach it’s potential. If you can’t abide with its hardware demands, you and your wallet are better off buying the Gen 4 version. “REAL WORLD” TEST EDITING 4K VIDEO Now if you are still here, after I completed the benchmark tests above, I tried a “real world” test, using it as a scratch drive, editing a five-minute-long test video using Canon 4K/60 sRAW clips. Also, because I only make short videos comprised of even shorter clips I edit with the actual files, not proxies. This is how I normally shoot so my goal was to find out if the 9100 Pro would appreciably make my work go faster than when I use “slower” but still upper end internal SSDs running around 4.5K Mb/s. As I was working on my video it became clear the 9100 Pro is special. Scrubbing though clips was buttery and even complex effects rendered significantly faster than what I’m used to. I didn’t notice the momentary pause I sometime get as my computer tries to catch up with my actions. And even though the 9100 Pro gets toasty almost immediately upon use this didn’t seem to affect performance. It was a smooth experience the entire time. But, of course, my source video and edits were not pushing anything on my rig to its limits either. Using it for editing is a great experience, like “how it should be,” yet I had guilt pang and felt a little silly I was underutilizing its power, only editing short 4K clips. It’s like when you see an exotic super car in the mall valet lot on a sunny day. The 9100 Pro, I think, is really built for more beefier uses like 8K or even 4K/240, things that cause bottlenecks. And this is how I eventually concluded that the 9100 Pro, until computer manufacturers catch up to its PCIe 5.0 tech en masse, is best for serious professional endeavors given its premium over Samsung’s next best SSD. For casual or general business use it’s hard to justify since it’s power can’t be harnessed in older (and even many newer) computers or even Thunderbolt 5 enclosures. BOTTOM LINE This is an elite SSD. It will shine if your computer has the latest specs and you push it to its limit every day. For everyone else that still wants speed at an affordable price, the best PCIe Gen 4.0 models are still fast and the fastest most computers right now can handle anyway. I’m not a serious gamer, but I can see where it might benefit those users since they tend to have high end rigs and latency is everything to them.

Samsung – 9100 PRO 2TB Internal SSD is an absolute beast of a drive. If you're buying this, I am going to assume that you know how to install this wonderful piece of hardware onto your motherboard. If you're unsure of where your m.2 slot is, there are a plethora of resources available to assist you with that portion. Once you have this on your PC and formatted, it is ready to rock and roll. This drive actually took the place of my C drive because I liked the performance so much that I went and purchased another one to hold the games. The speed is perfect for gaming. The temperature of the SSD is staying relatively cool. Overall, the performance is wonderful, I have yet to find a complaint. Actually, the only complaint is that once you have this one, you're never going to want to go back to anything else. As previously stated, this SSD is a powerhouse, and I have yet to find anything that it lags on. I am very pleased with this SSD, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a decent SSD.

I put this in my laptop that only had 512 gb. Install was easy, no issues with compatibility, and works great. I decided to just do a full reinstall so I didn’t try to do any backups to see if there would be any issues, but that really is more a software and main computer issue if it didn’t work anyway. Loaded up all my games and they went flawlessly. I like how fast it is, but honestly I didn’t notice much of a difference. It’s probably because my last hard drive was pretty fast as well, just smaller, so the hard drive wasn’t the bottleneck in my system. If I had gotten too much slower of one I may have had a different experience. I did try to test it by loading up various files (music, pictures, etc) and try to see if I felt like it went pretty fast. It did seem to go pretty fast, but nothing shocking. Again I don't know if the limiting factor was the speed of transfer for the hard drive or the connectors into my computer. But I was happy with all the speeds I saw. 2 TB should be good enough for me for a while, and I don't think I'll need bigger until I upgrade my laptop anyway. Its overall a great drive and I highly recommend.

After using many earlier versions of Samsung SSDs, and being impressed with their performance, this one stands well ahead of anything else on the market. I don't have the hardware to put it fully to the maximum capability of the rated speed. I installed it in PCIe Gen 4 slot, and everything just worked right out of the box. I used Samsung Magician in the install process to make certain there were no issues. Absolutley flawless start up. I can find nothing to complain about and remain impressed with Samsung's ability to keep raising the bar. Two TB is just the right size for my needs, but they make it up to 4 TB if you want that much space. The MTBF is rated a bit lower than I expected, but it will still far exceed anything I will use it for. I do not have space for the heatsink version, but get that one if you have the physical room. As expected, it runs on the hot side. Just a bit more insurance to protect your investment. If you have a PCIe Gen 5 slot, this is the drive you want.

I needed an updated portable external storage solution that I could use to transport data between a number of Windows devices. The size and sheer number of files that I found myself working with has increased exponentially since I started doing video editing with my drone footage. I also have been backing up my DVDs into a library that I can access via my media player and display in my home theater. Ideally I wanted an external drive that was fast enough to allow me to do my editing directly on the portable drive rather than transferring it to my internal SSD first and then transferring it back after I was done. I have several NAS units that I use daily and they provide me with ample bulk storage that is protected via RAID arrays and duplicated across different units for redundancy. However, I have found that the transfer speed from the NAS to my editing PCs is not sufficient to deal with the volume. I have used thumb drives, external spinning media USB drives, and SSD hard drives mounted in external enclosures as solutions. While these all work they are still too slow and/or lack sufficient capacity. So, when I discovered the new Gen5 Samsung 9100 PRO NVMe SSD I was intrigued! I am very familiar with the Samsung SSD products having upgraded several of my systems to their drives in the past. I find their hardware to be rock solid, reliable and fast. I also appreciate the capacity options that are offered. Furthermore, I have been pleased with the thermal envelope and have experienced no problems with overheating or throttling. My first mounted the 9100 PRO in a USB 3 external enclosure and compared the performance using CrystalDiskMark 8.0.6 Aoi Edition x64 to my laptop's internal SSD. I then ordered a USB 4 external enclosure and mounted the drive in that and repeated all of the tests. All testing was completed on a 2025 Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro laptop with an Intel Core Ultra 7, 16GB Memory and a 1TB internal SSD. The results were extremely impressive! Samsung Laptop Samsung 9100 PRO - 2TB Lexar Thumb drive Internal SSD USB 3 enclosure USB 4 enclosure ----------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------- --------------------- Read - MB/s 178.2 3080.8 1048.2 3844.1 Write - MB/s 4.4 848.8 1038.6 1312.6 Short and sweet - I can now work directly off my portable storage device and the performance is indistinguishable from working on the internal hard drive. Furthermore, transferring files is blazingly fast! I can transfer a 70GB file in under two minutes! Best of all, since the 9100 PRO is a Gen5 device, I will be ready when laptops supporting future generations of USB/Thunderbolt start appearing! I can simply buy an upgraded external case/controller and transfer my NVMe drive (a 10 minute operation!) I highly recommend the Samsung 9100 PRO for your high speed/high capacity portable needs!

Notes: - 2280 size so make sure your motherboard is compatible - Make sure you are using your Gen 5 M.2 slot if available - Do not remove sticker on SSD module The Samsung 9100 PRO is a Gen 5x4 NVMe SSD that I’ve been using in my PC for the past couple weeks. Installation wise your experience will vary. My only open Gen 5 slot was under my graphics card prompting me to remove it and the built in SSD heatsink on my motherboard. If you are in the same boat, be sure to leave the sticker on the SSD itself and remove any protective plastic film from the thermal paste on the heatsink portion of your motherboard. Compared to my older Samsung 990 PRO 2TB driver which I considered the previous gold standard for storage this drive blows that one out of the water. I achieved double the speeds in sequential reads and writes (9700 and 10200 MB/s respectfully) and slightly improved performance in random reads/writes testing in Crystal Disk Mark. Transferring large folders of files I was seeing transfers of around 3.3 GB/s moving things around on the same disk. At the time of this review writing (May 2025), there isn’t a faster consumer drive that you can get. This has been great for the movie and video editing that I do giving great speed when it comes to organizing my clips. From a reliability perspective I have no reason to believe this SSD won’t perform like previous Samsung SSDs which has been nothing short of stellar. Since I have used Samsung SSDs in the past I had their Magician software which is helpful for tracking drive performance and firmware upgrades to keep the drives health and up to date. Overall, I'm very impressed with this SSD performance!

I use an M.2 SSD on most of my home computers, but my daughter's media server was still running a dual core CPU and was pretty outdated. I a newer Ryzen 3 motherboard lying around that supports M.2 so I decided to update it for her. Her system had suffered a hard drive failure, so it needed a new C drive anyway. When this SSD arrived, I installed it and went into the BIOS. I was surprised that the card didn't appear. After checking all the BIOS settings I could find nothing amiss. I was concerned this PCI 5.0 card would not work on a PCI 3.0 motherboard, but everything pointed to it being supported. Finally I found a post in Reddit that said another person had the same issue, but clearing the BIOS and starting from scratch fixed it. So I cleared the BIOS, but the card still did not appear. I decided to run the Windows 10 install anyway, and discovered the card was now visible (I had tried the install previously but the card didn't appear). Once I installed Windows the BIOS now showed the installed M.2 card, and I successfully enabled the TPM settings for secure booting. So, if you install this (or another) M.2 card and it doesn't appear in the BIOS or the install, try a BIOS reset. Since this 5.0 M.2 SSD is far faster than the 3.0 motherboard, I wasn't expecting mind-blowing performance. But in reality using an M.2 SSD speeds up the OS operations so much it really was a powerful computer now. Windows 10 boots in a matter of seconds, and with 2 TB of space it has tons of space if the media server software needs to transcode anything the hard drive will not be a limiting factor. I installed both Plex Media Server and Serviio DLNA server, and both performed extremely well. So, if you run into setup issues, see my comments above. Yes, you can use a 5.0 M.2 SSD on an older motherboard without any problem. You won't get the full performance from the SSD, but compared to a normal SATA hard drive it's fantastic using a SSD hard drive in its place.

I had to review this as an external USB-3 SSD rather than a fully mounted PCIe NVMe SSD. My new system is not up and running yet and this SSD is to be my C: drive with Windows 11 Pro on it. I currently own a Samsung 980 Pro Drive in a Win 10 system and it is very, very fast. I do not own a Samsung 990 Pro when I selected this Samsung 9100 Pro. It was meant to be the main component of my new system. I’m really looking forward to it because it is two steps up from anything else that I have that is even close to it. So, the only test that I can come up with for this SSD, was to mount it in my MOKIN NVMe enclosure and run it as an external USB-3 SSD data drive. Even as an external USB-3 drive, it did not disappoint. I copied 12.4 GB made up of 149 files and 12 folders to a new root directory on the Samsung 9100 Pro 2 TB drive. Then I made three other folders off the root of the new drive. When I copied the 12.4 GB worth of files to each directory these were the times; 22.41 seconds, 22.45 seconds, and 22.38 seconds. I know it’s not scientific, but it works for me. Keeping in mind that with this was from a directory on the Samsung 9100 SSD, through USB-3, to an Intel 7 processor, back out USB-3, to the Samsung 9100 SSD, and to the new directory. I was impressed with these times! Once the Samsung 9100 SSD is installed on the motherboard, and my new system is up and running, I will repeat the test, and all will be handled internally. I would imagine the times will be down around 2- to 3-seconds to copy 12.4 GB of files. That’s almost unimaginable to an old guy like me! I run nothing but Samsung drives and will repeatedly swear by their speed and durability. I’m looking forward to it. For right now, I can definitely recommend this Samsung 9100 Pro 2 TB drive to anyone who is looking to build a new system or seriously upgrade an older system. It will not disappoint!

Solid-state drives (SSDs) have in many cases replaced mechanical hard drives as basic computer storage, although mechanical drives are still very popular and likely will be for some time to come. My current computer has both types. As far as solid-state drives, the motherboard can hold up to four of these drives (also often called “M-2" drives, in my experience), and two of the slots were already filled, each with a 1 TB drive, so I have room for more. I put this new drive, which, at 2 TB, has the capacity of the other two combined, in the third slot. To my mind, computer disk space is like shelf space or closet space—you can never have too much. Even if you use the extra drive space just for backing up your main storage drive, which is what I primarily plan to do with this one. Setup in software once the drive is physically installed and the computer buttoned back up is very simple. In Windows 11, right-click on the Start button and select Disk Management. Windows should find the drive, but it will need to be partitioned, and I made it a single drive with one drive letter. Once complete, Windows told me the drive needed to be formatted, which took an additional 30 seconds. So after about a minute of working in Windows, my new drive is fully functional and ready to accept whatever I want to store on it. One of the best features of SSDs is that there are no moving parts, so read and write speeds are about as fast as they can be. I do notice this difference when reading or writing to one of the mechanical drives in my system versus reading or writing to one of the SSDs. With the mechanical drives, I can hear the drives spinning up when there is a read or write request to that drive, and that adds a few seconds to the read/write process. Not that this is a big deal, but you do notice the difference once you get used to working with SSDs. I see no reason why this Samsung drive shouldn’t give me years of excellent service.

Samsung – 9100 PRO 2TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 5x4 NVMe, Speeds Up to 14700 MB/s The Samsung 9100 Pro NVMe is a standard 2280 NVMe drive. It can be installed in Laptops or Desktops. This drive comes without a heatsink, but one can be added if you require one. All chips are on the top side making heatsink addition easy. Stated speeds are up to 14,700 MB/s in a perfect world. I’m running an MSI motherboard that supports PCIe 5.0x4 but with a 13th gen i7 CPU. The speeds I am getting are just above 10,000 MB/s but this is well above what I am seeing with the PCIe 4.0x4 Samsung drive currently in my system. Probably a BIOS update on my motherboard would fix the speed issue but it is lightning fast as is. It could also be my CPU that is well over a year old, before PCIe 5.0x4 was something people were using. Overall speed of my computer was enormously improved using the Samsung 9100 Pro. Temperature of the drive has never gotten even close to throttling. If you’re going to push the speeds to the maximum a heatsink may be a good idea. This drive is well suited for gaming and video editing.

📦 UNBOXING: Inside the box, you’ll find the SSD itself and the manual that includes installation steps and warranty information. It doesn’t include a screw, so you may want to check that you have one. They often come pre-installed in your computer’s m.2 slot. Other than that, it was packaged securely with some rigid cardboard material to prevent damage. 🛠️ SETUP: Setup is easy, and since this variant of the 9100 Pro doesn’t have heatsink, physical compatibility is not an issue. It uses the 2880 form factor of the m.2 specification, so it should work with most desktop PC motherboards and most laptops with an m.2 NVMe SSD slot, and even some handheld gaming PC’s like the ROG Ally X. Installation is as simple as sliding the SSD into the slot, then installing the mounting screw. Be careful not to bend the SSD, and make sure the pins on the SSD align with the connector on the motherboard. You can look at the diagram in the included manual if it’s your first time installing an m.2 SSD, but you can usually slide the SSD into the slot at a slight angle. Then once you have it in, you can lay the SSD down flush to the mounting screw hole and install the screw. 💿 SOFTWARE: Samsung recommends using their Samsung Magician software to keep the SSD firmware up to date, and also use other features like over-provisioning to increase the lifespan of your SSD, performance benchmarking to see if your SSD is performing as expected, and data migration if you intend to make the 9100 Pro your primary drive and want to clone the OS and data. One oddity I did find was that after installing and cloning my previous drive’s data to the 9100 Pro, my existing installation of Samsung Magician claimed that my new drive was not genuine. The app didn’t say there was a newer version of Samsung Magician available, but I decided to re-install the latest version directly from their website. After doing so, Samsung Magician recognized the SSD as genuine and unlocked all of its supported capabilities. So just make sure to install the latest version from their website for the optimal experience. 💾 PERFORMANCE: As for performance, it’ll certainly vary depending on your computer’s capabilities, but you’ll achieve the most out of it if you’re using hardware that supports PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs. The 9100 Pro can achieve a theoretical 14,800 MB/s read and 13,400 MB/s write in sequential workloads, but if you’re limited to PCIe 4.0, then you’ll achieve only half of those speeds. Testing on a PCIe 4.0 system, I was able to obtain around 6110 MB/s read and 6650 MB/s write on ATTO Disk Benchmark. If you’re planning to use it in a PS5—it’s really not worth shelling out the additional money for since the PS5 will never make use of the 9100 Pro’s bandwidth. If you plan to use this in a PCIe 4.0 computer and soon upgrade to PCIe 5.0, I think whether or not it will be worth choosing over a Gen 4 drive will depend a lot on your storage speed needs. If you need high throughput for AI workloads, video editing, or if you do a lot of large file transfers, then perhaps “future proofing” will be the right call. But if you’re just gaming, then the 9100 Pro won’t realistically yield you any real benefit. That being said, compared to a lot of other Gen 5 SSDs on the market, this one does have lower power consumption which could make it appealing for laptops that support Gen 5 drives. However, you should still expect there to be higher power consumption compared to Gen 4 drives. So if you’re using a laptop that supports only PCIe 4.0, this drive could theoretically have a negative impact on battery life compared to using a Gen 4 SSD, but it’s hard to say by how much. 🧐 CONCLUSION: Samsung is a bit late to the Gen 5 NVMe SSD market, but it is putting out a good product that has lower power consumption compared to a lot of other Gen 5 SSDs, and delivers great performance, but isn’t necessarily the best in class among Gen 5 drives. However, Samsung is a well-established manufacturer of NAND flash memory. I have been using Samsung SSDs since 2011, and my overall experience has been very positive. I don’t expect that to change with the 9100 Pro. Samsung backs their products with a 5 year warranty, and they have delivered firmware updates to resolve issues that have occurred on drives in the past. The same cannot always be said for lesser-established brands. If you’re just looking to put an SSD in your PS5, skip this and go for the more affordable 980 Pro—it just doesn’t make sense to pay nearly twice the price for it to be used in the PS5. But if you have a newer workstation PC that supports Gen5 drives that will be doing AI workloads, video editing, or frequent large file transfers, the Samsung 9100 Pro is a great drive from a well-established brand that makes it easy to recommend.

I am a big fan of Samsung memory products, including their ssds and NVME drives. I probably own at least half a dozen of their nvme products, and I think this is the best one yet. I also have several ssds that were amazing back in the day but have since been passed by the faster pcie drives. One big benefit has got to be its PCIE 5.0 speeds. I forget what the drive is labeled at speed wise but I remember darn near hitting it (which really surprised me due to all the marketing fluff around computer components these days). Read and writes are both blazing fast. I used the drive in my personal do-it-all desktop, and I was able to notice small improvements in the speed it took to launch large programs, like Office. I didn’t notice much benefit opening smaller, app-sized programs though. My guess is this drive would be amazing for video/photo editing due to its speed. For those wondering about games, I can confirm that it sped up my game loading times by at least a few seconds, even if it didn’t necessarily help the FPS or overall playability of my games. I also appreciate the work Samsung put in to keep the drive cool(er). My prior drive was a 1TB Samsung PCIE, and I could totally tell when it got thermal throttled. Not the case here—at least not in my usage. Power usage is a few watts higher than the pcie 3.0 or 4.0 drives, but that’s to be expected with more throughput of PCIE 5.0. The highest wattage I’ve seen it using is 12w, or so. My last drive was using 7-9w, so this is a good “price vs wattage” deal for the increase in speed (and size, in my case). Do you need this drive? I fully recommend it. However, it’s pretty pricey right now (at release), and if you already have a PCIE 4.0 drive, I’m not sure the increased throughput is wroth the price, unless you work with heavy duty engineering programs or multimedia programs. However, if you’re already in the market for a new NVME drive, or looking for an upgrade from a SSD or PCIE 3.0 drive, then you’ll definitely feel the speed with the 9100 Pro

I've been using an HP Pavilion All-in-One desktop for many years now. It came with Windows 10 and as you may know, Windows 10 will end support by the end of this year. Since this computer had a 7th generation Intel Core i7-7700T CPU running at 2.90 GHz and no TPM, I couldn't upgrade to Windows 11 without running a hack and compromising my system. By today's standard, this computer is a dinosaur. I decided it was time to get a new PC. Rather than buying a ready made PC, I decided to build a computer from scratch. The last time I built one was back in 2009. It lasted me for 8 years but then I got the All-In-One. After researching all the various motherboards online I settled on the ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Dark Hero motherboard. It seemed to me to have all the upgradability I would need for years to come. I installed 64GB of RAM, an MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 and this Samsung 9100 Pro 2TB NVME M2 SSD. Since I mostly do video and photo editing, I wanted to make the computer as fast as I could so it would last me many years. I have to say, the speed of the SSD is incredible. The PC boots in record time and I am able to see the difference when loading applications between what I was used to and what I am seeing now. Loading the video and audio clips from the SSD into the editor as well as rendering out and saving a video using DaVinci Resolve in the past could take so much time when the video had multiple tracks, transitions, effects, and sometimes 16 audio tracks using a spinning hard drive. Now with this Samsung 9100 SSD, it finished transferring the files before I could even make coffee. I'm not used to transfers so fast, what am I going to do with all the extra time I saved? Now that I'm getting into AI, I need all the speed and power I can get. I'm sure this system will save me a lot of time.