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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Zero regrets after months of heavy use on my Ryzen
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Posted . Owned for 5 months when reviewed.
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I’ve been running this Samsung 9100 PRO since October because I wanted to see how it held up before reporting back. My only real regret is that I didn’t buy two of them while I was at it.
I’m using this with a Ryzen 9950X and an X870E motherboard, and the speeds are absolutely top-tier. I had some "crucial" stability issues with a drive from another vendor, but this Samsung has been flawless. The Samsung Magician software made cloning my old drive a breeze with zero errors.
The heatsink does its job well, though my only minor complaint is that it's not meant to be removed, which makes the motherboard look a bit different—but my GPU blocks the view anyway, so it doesn't matter. Huge shout out to the Augusta, Maine Best Buy team for a much better experience than my recent online orders elsewhere!
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I recently installed the Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB with heatsink into my system, and after running a few CrystalDiskMark tests, I can confidently say: this drive is a beast.
Sequential Read/Write (Q8T1): 11088 / 8,145 MB/s
Sequential Read/Write (Q1T1): 5,761 / 4,351 MB/s
Random 4K Read/Write (Q32T1): 492 / 498 MB/s
Random 4K Read/Write (Q1T1): 77 / 151 MB/s
Would recommend 100%
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Purchased as a primary drive in a new high-end PC build on an Asus ROG Strix X870E-H MB with an AMD 9800x3d and Radeon RX 9070 XT. SSD is extremely fast on boot, launching/saving/loading games, etc. Is it a noticable difference coming from a PCIe 4.0 X4 drive? I'd say yes, but my previous PC was built 4 years ago so YMMV. Note that this is the model with attached heatsink which did not allow for the usage of the motherboard's included heatsink. That was fine with me, as the primary Asus ROG Strix X870E-H NVMe slot's heatsink is separate from the rest of the motherboard's heatsink plate. If I buy another (which his highly likely once prices come back down) I'll buy the model without the heatsink.
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Fast and big storage, heat sink is too big to use with motherboards built in heat sink on a x870e but hasn’t had any heat problems thus far with just its heat sink overall good drive
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If you’re looking at the Samsung 9100 Pro SSD for personal use, know it’s really built for enterprise workloads, not everyday gaming or storage. Performance is excellent—fast reads/writes, very reliable under heavy sustained use—but it runs warm and costs more per GB than standard consumer drives. For me, it feels like overkill in a home setup, but if you’re running constant large file transfers, virtualization, or workstation-level tasks, it makes sense. For typical gaming or daily use, a Samsung 980 Pro or 990 Pro would be a smarter fit.
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Easy plug and play HD. Price was right and good performance. Not really much to say other than it works as it's suppose to. Was up and running after it was formatted/initialzed in no time.
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You can't beat this m.2 2TB with heatsink. There is nothing quite like the speed of a PCIe 5.0. Speeds listed are about what I've gotten, so I'm extremely happy with it.