Samsung 9100 PRO

Samsung 9100 PRO

Samsung
100 Overall Score
vs
Kingston SSD

Kingston SSD

Kingston
95 Overall Score

Scores

Workstation
Samsung
100
Kingston
94
Console
Samsung
98
Kingston
92
Gaming
Samsung
97
Kingston
92
Budget
Samsung
87
Kingston
94
Laptop
Samsung
76
Kingston
83
Portable
Samsung
27
Kingston
25

Specifications

Samsung 9100 PROKingston SSD
Drive
Capacity
8,000
2,000
Form FactorM.2 2280M.2
InterfacePCIe 5.0 x4PCIe 4.0
ProtocolNVMeNVMe
PCIe Generation5★4
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
14,800
7,300
Sequential Write (MB/s)
13,400
7,000
Random Read (IOPS)
2,200,000
1,000,000
Random Write (IOPS)
2,600,000
1,000,000
Hardware
NANDTLCTLC
DRAM Cache✓✓
ControllerSamsung in-house Controller—
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)
4,800
2,000
MTBF (hours)
1,500,000
1,800,000
Warranty (years)55
Features
Heatsink✓✓
Hardware Encryption✓★—

Pros & Cons

Samsung 9100 PRO

  • Strong random (100th percentile)100th %ile
  • Strong feature (100th percentile)100th %ile
  • Strong speed (99th percentile)99th %ile
  • Strong capacity (98th percentile)98th %ile

Kingston SSD

  • Strong social proof (96th percentile)96th %ile
  • Strong feature (94th percentile)94th %ile
  • Strong random (94th percentile)94th %ile
  • Strong endurance (94th percentile)94th %ile

Verdict

★ Winner: Samsung 9100 PRO

Scores 100 overall, wins 4 of 6 usage categories and 8 of 18 specs.

Samsung 9100 PRO Better at:

GamingConsolePortableWorkstation

Kingston SSD Better at:

BudgetLaptop