Samsung has turned up fashionably late to the PCIe 5.0 SSD party, but it’s largely been worth the wait. Rather than rushing out a new drive as soon as the first motherboards came on the scene, the company has been able to see where other drives have failed, and refine its PCIe 5.0 SSD formula. Meet the Samsung 9100 Pro, the fastest SSD on the block.
This new Samsung drive isn’t just the quickest M.2 SSD I’ve ever tested, but it also doesn’t run ridiculously hot. You still need a heatsink for it, but not a comically oversized one with a fan in it. In fact, the slimline cooler attached to the heatsink versions of the drive has no trouble keeping it in check without throttling. It might not be cheap (more on that later), but in terms of nailing the brief, the Samsung 9100 Pro is the best SSD for gaming in terms of raw performance.
I’ve tested two of the new drives to see how they get on in a number of different scenarios, from gaming to raw sequential performance, and using one of them as the main drive in my gaming PC for a couple of weeks. The first is a 2TB model with a heatsink, and the second is a 4TB drive without a heatsink.
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