Samsung unveils 8TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD - and the heatsink will cost you extra!

Samsung 8TB 9100 Pro SSD

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• An 8TB PCIe SSD that's offered with oregon without a heatsink.
• Read and constitute speeds of up to 14,800 and 13,400 MB/s, respectively.
• Perfect for laptops and desktop with PCIe 5.0, and PlayStation 5. 

Looking for an 8TB PCIe 5.0 SSD? Well you're successful luck, due to the fact that Samsung has announced an 8TB variant of its fantabulous 9100 Pro M.2 2280 SSD. But specified an awesome SSD is going to travel with an arsenic awesome terms tag.

The 8TB exemplary is disposable from Samsung's store for $999.99, and that's for the bare drive. If you privation the mentation with the heatsink, that'll acceptable you backmost a chill $1,019.99. 

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But if you request it, you request it. In my experience, Samsung SSD heatsinks are among the best. Even with the heatsink, the thrust is inactive lone 8.8 millimeters (0.35-inch) thick, which is precise svelte arsenic SSDs with a heatsink go.

Even with the heatsink, the Samsung 9100 PRO SSD is lone 8.8 mm thick. 

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Digging done the spec sheet, it's wide that the 8TB 9100 Pro packs immoderate superior horsepower. It's susceptible of sequential reads of up to 14,800 MB/s, and writes up to 13,400 MB/s, which is the aforesaid arsenic the 4TB mentation of the 9100 Pro, but doubly arsenic accelerated arsenic the 990 PRO SSD line. Random work and writes are arsenic impressive, astatine 2,200K and 2,600K IOPS, respectively.

This thrust is acceptable for the toughest workloads, from AI, 4K/8K video rendering, and, of course, gaming (yes, arsenic good arsenic being suited to a laptop oregon desktop, this volition besides enactment successful the PlayStation 5).

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Samsung's caller 5-nanometer controller, the spot astatine the bosom of this drive, claims a powerfulness ratio of up to 49% compared to the 990 PRO SSD, which means the thrust has little discarded vigor to woody with. But contempt this, if you're going to beryllium pushing this thrust adjacent to its limits, I highly urge dropping the other $20 connected the heatsink. 

Just remember, to get the champion imaginable performance, you volition request a strategy that makes usage of PCIe 5.0, truthful it's worthy checking earlier dropping this overmuch currency connected the drive. 

Endurance gets a large bump, up to 4,800 TBW (which stands for Terabytes Written, a measurement of however overmuch information tin beryllium written to the thrust earlier it's done for), treble the 2,400 TBW of the 4TB version. MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) is rated astatine 1.5 cardinal hours, which is beauteous emblematic for an M.2 SSD. 

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As I said, 8TB SSDs are bladed connected the ground, but astatine $1,000, this is 1 of the priciest connected the market, truthful if you're looking for thing a spot much affordable, past look for SSDs from WD, Lexar, or Sabrent. These are PCIe 4.0 drives, truthful you're getting astir fractional the speed, but the terms tags are a spot much -- but not a batch much -- palatable. If you're strategy doesn't enactment PCIe 5.0, this is the thrust to get. 

In fact, the lone different 8TB PCIe 5.0 SSD I cognize of that's been announced is successful the WD-BLACK SN8100 lineup, and I don't cognize erstwhile that's going to land.