News Samsung's 9100 Pro SSD boasts 14,8 GB/s read speeds, making it the world's fastest consumer drive

[Admin]

Samsung introduced its 9100 Pro, the first "true" PCIe 5.0 SSD from the company, with speeds of up to 14.8GB/s, potentially making it the new worlds-fastest consumer SSD and outpacing the Crucial T705. Just as importantly, it can hit that speed while only using 9W (compared to 12W on the Phison E26 drives).

Samsung's 9100 Pro SSD boasts 14,8 GB/s read speeds, making it the world's fastest consumer drive : Read more

 

[Jame5]

I would love to see a head-to-head between this and the Micron 4600, or any other new SM2508 powered drive.

 

[kaalus]

What's the point if Windows won't delete more than about 100 files per second anyway?

 

[bit_user]

@JarredWaltonGPU & @PaulAlcorn ,

Can you please ask whoever reviews this to measure power consumption (active idle + under load) at PCIe 4.0 speeds, as well? I found that sadly lacking from two other PCIe 5.0 drives recently reviewed:

• https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/addlink-g55-ssd-review/2
• https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/corsair-mp700-elite-ssd-review/2

I don't care so much about performance at PCIe 4.0 speeds, just want to know how much less power it uses. Just running the 50 GB folder copy tests @ PCIe 4.0 (as well as 5.0, obviously) would be enough for me.

Thanks!

 

[bit_user]

What's the point if Windows won't delete more than about 100 files per second anyway?

That's probably due to your antivirus and it's doing per-file scanning.

For games, they should be able to avoid that overhead by holding open their data files and just seeking around in them. Game loading benchmarks clearly show that some games are certainly influenced by SSD speeds.

Also, large file reads or copies depend on SSD speed. These can include things like reading AI models, loading VM images, and performing VM snapshots.

Another thing you can do is to disable antivirus for certain directories. Software developers often do this, in the area where they checkout their source code and perform builds. Otherwise, performance is too heavily impacted.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

@JarredWaltonGPU & @PaulAlcorn ,

Can you please ask whoever reviews this to measure power consumption (active idle + under load) at PCIe 4.0 speeds, as well? I found that sadly lacking from two other PCIe 5.0 drives recently reviewed:

• https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/addlink-g55-ssd-review/2
• https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/corsair-mp700-elite-ssd-review/2

I don't care so much about performance at PCIe 4.0 speeds, just want to know how much less power it uses. Just running the 50 GB folder copy tests @ PCIe 4.0 (as well as 5.0, obviously) would be enough for me.

Thanks!

I'm actually the one doing the testing, with Shane writing the reviews. I mostly don't test at slower speeds because it just takes more time. The 2230 drives are already a pain in the neck, since I test them at PCIe 3.0 plus "maximum" (4.0 in all cases so far) performance mode. I'm trying to avoid committing to doing that on any more drives. LOL

But it would be good to at least run some power numbers for kicks and information on the PCIe 5.0 drives. Sigh. Probably just stick to the power and forget about everything else. Only the bursty workloads will really show much difference, regardless.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

I would love to see a head-to-head between this and the Micron 4600, or any other new SM2508 powered drive.

Coming soon! Well, as soon as we get a Samsung drive. The Micron 4600 review is in the works. I have been a bit (only a wee bit!) overloaded with all the GPU stuff... but the Micron testing is now nearly finished.

SPOILERS! LOL:








Performance was slightly worse on the file copy in PCIe 4.0 mode, FYI, but overall efficiency improved. This is without enabling all of the maximum power savings features in the BIOS (ASPM, specifically), so idle power is the drive not doing anything but also not in full sleep mode. (Most SSDs drop to ~50mW in full sleep mode, I believe.)

 

[nitrium]

QD1 4K reads still largely dictate the actual "real world feel" of an SSD. Unfortunately, that has barely changed in the last 5 years, despite massive QD32 benchmarks that only highlight very specific scenarios usually not relevant to the average consumer.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

What's the point if Windows won't delete more than about 100 files per second anyway?

Windows Exploder, now known as File Exploder, is terribly inefficient at, well, everything.

 

[Mr Majestyk]

$200 for 1TB. That's so pathetic in fact it would be pathetic for 2TB, but Tom's will give it the gold star and claim it's the best ssd in history, like all Samsung drives before it.

 

[USAFRet]

$200 for 1TB. That's so pathetic in fact it would be pathetic for 2TB, but Tom's will give it the gold star and claim it's the best ssd in history, like all Samsung drives before it.

Each generation starts out "expensive".

Used to be, a 250GB SATA III SSD was $200.

 

[Li Ken-un]

This is still not the fastest possible. It’s inching towards saturation, but saturation is a whole GBps higher at around 15.60 GBps-ish as told by the CrystalDiskMark meter after overhead is taken into account. PCIe 5.0 is a simple doubling of signal frequency from PCIe 4.0, so the bandwidth also scales linearly. And 7.80 GBps is the highest bench I’ve seen of PCIe 4.0 × 4.0 SSDs. (7.88 GBps is the hard limit of PCIe 4.0 × 4 goodput when excluding the NVMe overhead, which is very nearly nil.)

 

[helper800]

Each generation starts out "expensive".

Used to be, a 250GB SATA III SSD was $200.

I bought my first 120gb SSD for 140 dollars...

 

[gg83]

$200 for 1TB. That's so pathetic in fact it would be pathetic for 2TB, but Tom's will give it the gold star and claim it's the best ssd in history, like all Samsung drives before it.

its Samsungs best new drive. they are always up there until the market forces their price.

 

[aberkae]

I would love to see a 5090 and one of these pcie 5.0 nvme drives that saturate the bandwidth in action to make sure everything is working as it should on x870e and competing Intel motherboards.
So far Blackwell has minimum performance loss via generational pcie scaling even as low as 3.0 and shouldn't surprise us by affecting secondary chips pcie performance right? 😅

 

[DougMcC]

$200 for 1TB. That's so pathetic in fact it would be pathetic for 2TB, but Tom's will give it the gold star and claim it's the best ssd in history, like all Samsung drives before it.

Either it's the fastest or its not. If it is the fastest, the price premium can be pretty large. If it's not then some people will still buy it for brand reputation the same way they buy intel even though AMD is faster. But if it really isn't meaningfully faster they won't sell nearly as many as they'd like.

 

[Alex/AT]

What's the point if Windows won't delete more than about 100 files per second anyway?

You can disable cache flushes for the device completely to do more as it's mostly a sync sync slowing down the process, but yes this naturally comes with certain reliability implications

 

[wmaciv]

I would like to see how well this drive would saturate a prior generation PCI4.0 interface. I have to believe with the larger cache, newest protocols, faster controler, etc., that I could finally see the absolute "best" transfer rates on my system. I would pay the premium to squeeze that last little bit out of my current setup, even if I couldnt get the full benefit of the newer tech... Any thoughts?

 

[hannibal]

Heat and power usage are important features in pci5.0 drives!
Speed is nice, but how long they can sustain the speed while being relative safe temperature.

 

[Amdlova]

😀 This race about Gb/s i'am done...

Have here a toshiba enterprise drive 22110 gives 800mb/s (1.92tb for 75usd)
the other drive is a Seagate 5350m enterprise NVME U.3 gives 3700 mb/s Write and 7300 mb/s Read (1.92tb for 78us)

These drives have tb/w about 1 Drive per day... what gives about 3500TB

just seach ebay and find these ssd's =)

 

[bit_user]

So far Blackwell has minimum performance loss via generational pcie scaling even as low as 3.0 and shouldn't surprise us by affecting secondary chips pcie performance right? 😅

PCIe is a switched fabric, rather than a bus. Each connected device should be able to negotiate its speed with the PCIe switch or root complex, independently of all the others. So, while I don't know exactly what you mean by "affecting secondary chips PCIe performance", I think it probably should not be a concern.

Example PCI Express Topology

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
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[bit_user]

Either it's the fastest or its not.

That's rarely true. It's more common to see one SSD win certain benchmarks, while other SSDs win others. Yes, there can be an overall winner, but you rarely have a situation where a single drive wins at everything.

 

[bit_user]

I would like to see how well this drive would saturate a prior generation PCI4.0 interface. I have to believe with the larger cache, newest protocols, faster controler, etc., that I could finally see the absolute "best" transfer rates on my system. I would pay the premium to squeeze that last little bit out of my current setup, even if I couldnt get the full benefit of the newer tech... Any thoughts?

Whatever floats your boat.

Unless you have a use case where most existing drives are bottlenecked by the controller or NAND (e.g. sustained writes), you'd probably get poor value for money.

One thing I expect to see is lower power consumption & temperatures of the 9100 Pro at PCIe 4.0 speeds than the 990 Pro uses. I did ask Jarred to actually test this, so that we can have real data on it.

 

[bit_user]

the other drive is a Seagate 5350m enterprise NVME U.3 gives 3700 mb/s Write and 7300 mb/s Read (1.92tb for 78us)

These drives have tb/w about 1 Drive per day... what gives about 3500TB

I got a 4TB Solidigm D7-P5520. It cost me $333 nearly 2 years ago. Now, a good price on it seems to be $486. That's not due to inflation, but just a sign of how bad the SSD market was back then.

It's also a 1 DWPD model and has a 5 year warranty.

A tradeoff of datacenter drives is they idle hot. I think mine uses about 5W, which is similar to the average hard disk. However, it has incredibly good tail latencies.

just seach ebay and find these ssd's =)

One downside of buying from ebay is that manufacturers, in certain countries, can limit the manufacturer warranty coverage to only products purchased through authorized resellers. Buyer beware.

 

[HardwiredWireless]

What's the point if Windows won't delete more than about 100 files per second anyway?

So you go out and buy the fastest drives possible so you can delete files faster? That's really weird. Personally I use them to store files and large files at that.