Published: March 18, 2025 | Source: Samsung | Author: Tom Logan

Samsung 9100 Pro 2TB Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Introduction

Solid State Drives – SSDs – are a product which we feel closely affiliated to here at OC3D. When we began they didn’t exist, and in the lifespan of the site we’ve gone from 60GB 200MBs type 2.5″ SSDs, to products such as the NVMe drive we have for you today. That time spent with non-mechanical storage has largely been dominated by one brand, Samsung. They aren’t the only ones of course. But generally when performance or capacity takes a step forwards it’s been Samsung that led the way.

Speed is always something you should take a moment to pause and really let it sink in. We cut our teeth on processors with clock speeds that weren’t old enough to drink. When AMD broke the 1GHz barrier it seemed processors had got as fast as they’d need to be. Just as we believed the first NVMe drives with 2GB/s speeds were all anyone would require. Nowadays both AMD and Intel will give you a 5GHz processor without breaking a sweat. Similarly the 9100 Pro from Samsung offers up a PCIe 5.0 saturating 14800 MB/s. Nearly 15GB a second. Blimey.

Of course such speeds aren’t really necessary in the gaming world, nor in the creative ones. No game loads everything in one go, and only very specialised rigs can push enough video or 3D data to fill the buffer of a drive as fast as this Samsung claims to be. What this kind of speed is best used for is in the world of AI. Whether it’s the massive models of Stable Diffusion, or the huge linguistic capabilities of ChatGPT, speed is everything. This isn’t the place to debate the morals of algorithmic content creation, it’s here whether we like it or not. In fact it will only become more built in to our systems. Anyone aware of the privacy horror-show that is Microsoft’s Co-Pilot Recall knows it’s soon going to be unavoidable.

Does the Samsung 9100 Pro continue their incredible history in the Solid State Storage world? Is the 9100 Pro as fast as the table below would have us believe? Let’s find out.