Customer Ratings & Reviews

Very fast on pCIE5. Runs great ans samsung magician compatible makes it easy to monitor health and performance.

If you can grab it for $200 nothing can beat it!! Great quality!

Great value for size, and notable upgrade from the 990 I had in previous build. Works as expected!

Very nice upgrade from the 980 pro. Glad I did the upgrade and very happy with it.

Fastest drive to go with 9950x3d chip. Near top of charts. Pricey and games won’t show much difference. So a luxury item for the most part.

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!