Samsung 9100 PRO 8TB PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280
Samsung
100 Overall Score
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Crucial BX500 240GB SATA III 2.5"
Crucial
39 Overall Score
What Buyers Say
Samsung 9100 PRO 8TB PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280
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Crucial BX500 240GB SATA III 2.5"
72 out of 100 medium confidence 17 reviews
The Crucial BX500 is praised as a budget-friendly SSD that delivers significant performance improvements over mechanical drives, especially for boot times and program launches. Users appreciate its value and ease of installation, but note it runs hot and has poor manufacturer support. One unit arrived dead on arrival, though the reviewer's past experience with Crucial remains positive.
Pros
- Great value for money
- Significant speed boost over HDD
- Easy installation
- Backwards compatible with SATA I/II
- Good for budget builds
Cons
- Runs hot
- Poor manufacturer support
- Dead on arrival unit
- No SATA cable included
- Lower write endurance
Value for money 4
Performance improvement 5
Heat generation 2
Manufacturer support 2
Reliability 3
Ease of installation 2
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Specifications
| Samsung 9100 PRO | Crucial BX500 | |
|---|---|---|
| Drive | ||
| Capacity | ||
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 | 2.5" |
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x4 | SATA III |
| Protocol | NVMe | SATA |
| PCIe Generation | 5★ | — |
| External | ✗ | ✗ |
| Performance | ||
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | ||
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | ||
| Random Read (IOPS) | No data | |
| Random Write (IOPS) | No data | |
| Hardware | ||
| NAND | TLC | TLC |
| DRAM Cache | ✓★ | ✗ |
| Controller | Samsung in-house Controller | — |
| Reliability | ||
| Endurance (TBW) | ||
| MTBF (hours) | ||
| Warranty (years) | 5★ | 3 |
| Features | ||
| Heatsink | ✓★ | — |
| Hardware Encryption | ✓★ | — |
Pros & Cons
Samsung 9100 PRO 8TB PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280
- Strong random (100th percentile)100th %ile
- Strong feature (100th percentile)100th %ile
- Strong speed (99th percentile)99th %ile
- Strong capacity (98th percentile)98th %ile
- Below average affordability (2nd percentile)2nd %ile
Crucial BX500 240GB SATA III 2.5"
- Strong affordability (88th percentile)88th %ile
- Strong social proof (87th percentile)87th %ile
- Strong endurance (69th percentile)
- Below average capacity (10th percentile)10th %ile
- Below average random (22nd percentile)
- Below average speed (25th percentile)
- Below average user sentiment (29th percentile)
Verdict
Winner: Samsung 9100 PRO
Scores 100 overall, wins 5 of 6 usage categories and 11 of 18 specs.