The 9100 Pro takes advantage of the PCI Express 5.0 bus to offer blistering speeds, so long as you're willing to pay a premium for the luxury.

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.

Once consistently top of the leader board, but recently an also-ran, Samsung storms back to the top with its latest NVMe SSD — the 9100 Pro.

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.

Samsung’s T7 Shield is one of the most recognizable portable SSDs and one of our favorites. Well, it just so happens that the 2TB is on sale for $150 on Amazon, a solid 47% discount (was $285). It should come as no surprise that the T7 Shield is one of our favorites given our review’s glowing 4.