In context: While general memory price increases are widely documented and affect many tech products, SSDs are no exception: NAND prices have risen dramatically over the past year, driving retail prices up nearly 200% in some cases. Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale offers temporary relief on select products, including big discounts on Samsung’s flagship SSD 9100 Pro, bringing the lower-capacity models back to roughly launch prices.
The 9100 Pro is available in four capacities: 1TB, 2TB, 4TB and 8TB. The 1TB model is currently priced at $206, about 39% off the regular list price of $339. The 2TB model offers an even bigger 49% discount and is listed for $349, while the 4TB and 8TB variants are down to $750 and $2,280, respectively, about 45% and 16% off their list prices.
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At launch, the 1TB model cost $200, while the 2TB and 4TB versions cost $300 and $550, respectively. The 8TB model was later released for $1,000. That puts the 1TB and 2TB drives so close to launch prices that this is a good time to upgrade your system if you’ve planned to, while the 4TB and 8TB versions are well above theirs.
Consistently rated as one of the best consumer SSDs for gamers and power users, the 9100 Pro features 236-layer V8 NAND and Samsung’s in-house 5nm Presto controller. The drives offer PCIe 5.0 connectivity in the M.2 2280 form factor, endurance performance of up to 4,800 TBW, and random read/write speeds of up to 2,200,000/2,600,000 IOPS.
The flagship 8TB model delivers sequential read speeds of up to 14,800MB/s and write speeds of up to 13,400MB/s, while the base 1TB model achieves up to 14,700MB/s and 13,300MB/s respectively. The 2TB and 4TB models each reach 13,400MB/s sequential write, while sequential read is 14,700 and 14,800MB/s respectively.
The large flagship 8TB model offers maximum sequential read speeds of up to 14,800MB/s and write speeds of up to 13,400MB/s, while the base 1TB model achieves up to 14,700MB/s and 13,300MB/s respectively. The 2TB and 4TB models both achieve 13,400MB/s sequential writes, while sequential reads are rated at 14,700 and 14,800MB/s respectively.
Samsung announced the 9100 Pro series in early 2025 and began selling the 1TB, 2TB and 4TB models the following month, with the 8TB version launching later that year. The range offers high-end performance for use on laptops and desktop PCs or in gaming consoles such as the PS5. Samsung claims the new controller makes the SSDs up to 49% more power efficient than their predecessor, the 990 Pro.
While PCIe 5.0 remains the industry standard for consumer SSDs, Samsung is already mass-producing next-generation enterprise SSDs based on the PCIe 6.0 interface. Designed specifically to address the storage needs of AI data centers and high-performance computing environments, the PM1763 series will be offered in 4TB, 8TB and 16TB configurations at launch.
The new enterprise-class SSDs promise more than twice the performance of Samsung’s PCIe 5.0 PM1753, with claimed sequential read and write speeds of up to 28.4GB/s and 21.9GB/s on the 16TB model, respectively.
Samsung also touts random read and write speeds of up to 6,800,000 and 950,000 IOPS, respectively. At these speeds, the drives can transfer a 40GB LLM in just 1.4 seconds.
