Samsung's 9100 Pro PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Leaks Ahead of Official Launch

[Bwaze]

"

Pricing & Availability​

The 9100 PRO SSD will be available starting this March in the 1TB (MSRP: $199.99), 2TB (MSRP: $299.99) and 4TB (MSRP: $549.99) capacities. Similarly, the 9100 PRO with Heatsink will be available in capacities including 1TB (MSRP: $219.99), 2TB (MSRP: $319.99) and 4TB (MSRP: $569.99). The 8TB models will be available in the second half of 2025."

That's brutally expensive.

 

[TheLostSwede]

What prices can we expect here in Europe?
I'm interested in the 2TB version

No prices as yet.

Samsung SSD 9100 PRO, M.2 ab € 162,01 (2025) | Preisvergleich Geizhals EU

✔ Preisvergleich für Samsung SSD 9100 PRO, M.2 ✔ Bewertungen ✔ Produktinfo ⇒ Kapazität: 2TB (entspricht ca. 1862.65GiB bzw. 1.82TiB, weiterführende Informationen ) • Bauform: Solid S… ✔ Solid State Drives (SSD) ✔ Testberichte ✔ Günstig kaufen

geizhals.eu

"

Pricing & Availability​

The 9100 PRO SSD will be available starting this March in the 1TB (MSRP: $199.99), 2TB (MSRP: $299.99) and 4TB (MSRP: $549.99) capacities. Similarly, the 9100 PRO with Heatsink will be available in capacities including 1TB (MSRP: $219.99), 2TB (MSRP: $319.99) and 4TB (MSRP: $569.99). The 8TB models will be available in the second half of 2025."

That's brutally expensive.

Still cheaper than in India for the 4 TB SKU.

 

[Bwaze]

Still cheaper than in India for the 4 TB SKU.

I'm confused, cheaper how? "49,999 INR or US$573 for the 4 TB SKU" - that is with included 18% VAT, meanwhile Samsung recommends 4TB (MSRP: $569.99) - that's only $3 cheaper without any VAT? That's gonna be like 640 EUR in Europe, including VAT. Meanwhile you can buy a 4 TB 990 Pro for 280 EUR, less than half that price?

 

[TheLostSwede]

I'm confused, cheaper how? "49,999 INR or US$573 for the 4 TB SKU" - that is with included 18% VAT, meanwhile Samsung recommends 4TB (MSRP: $569.99) - that's only $3 cheaper without any VAT? That's gonna be like 640 EUR in Europe, including VAT. Meanwhile you can buy a 4 TB 990 Pro for 280 EUR, less than half that price?

$549.99, the $569.99 is with a heatsink. The 1 TB SKU is a lot more expensive though.

 

[efikkan]

Samsung SSDs - known for being either very good or very bad. They've been known for numerous firmware issues over the years, mainly causing data loss and premature wear, and both 980 Pro and 990 Pro have been plagued with this. (970 Pro was solid though, glad I secured three of those…)

But there's basically no discernable real world difference between this and PCIe 4 drives like Samsung 990 Pro, which can be had for half that price? Well, maybe not in India.

Even other solid PCIe 4 SSDs like Kingston KC3000, WD SN770/SN850/SN850X, etc., the performance in most real world uses are practically the same. But what's more interesting is they are still performing roughly the same as old Samsung 970 Pro, which is a gen 3 drive (you wouldn't find that in recent reviews, but you can see a comparison between some of these here).

So what's the big difference with newer drives? Faster burst speed which makes them look great in some benchmarks, but sustained speeds and IOPS are basically in the same ballpark (if not worse in some cases). Combine this with heat and heavy throttling and it probably and it probably isn't worth the upgrade until you need to.

Those that do need faster SSDs do have options though, there are several high-end enterprise drives which can sustain much higher speeds, and some with better IOPS too, but they usually cost a fair bit more and many of them are U.2/U.3 drives.