Once again, the drive features Intelligent TurboWrite 2.0 technology, with the new 9100 PRO series offering a dynamic SLC buffer region to accelerate read/write speeds. Essentially, this speed boost makes it an obvious choice for 8K and higher-resolution video footage.

We benchmark the new PCIe 5.0 gaming SSD in a number of tests to see if this storage upgrade can challenge Crucial, Corsair, and WD.

I say this as someone who has the new Samsung 9100 Pro in-hand (out today), but can’t actually take full advantage of its ludicrous speeds. My newly-rebuilt PC supports PCIe 5.0 SSDs, but there are other bottlenecks in my system (such as the PCIe 3.

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