Samsung 9100 PRO

Samsung 9100 PRO

Samsung
100 Overall Score
vs
SanDisk SSD

SanDisk SSD

SanDisk
65 Overall Score

Scores

Workstation
Samsung
100
SanDisk
63
Console
Samsung
98
SanDisk
46
Gaming
Samsung
98
SanDisk
49
Budget
Samsung
87
SanDisk
52
Laptop
Samsung
77
SanDisk
64
Portable
Samsung
28
SanDisk
15

Specifications

Samsung 9100 PROSanDisk SSD
Drive
Capacity
8,000
500
Form FactorM.2 2280M.2 2280
InterfacePCIe 5.0 x4PCIe 4.0
ProtocolNVMeNVMe
PCIe Generation5★4
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
14,800
6,800
Sequential Write (MB/s)
13,400
6,900
Random Read (IOPS)
2,200,000
760,000
Random Write (IOPS)
2,600,000
1,200,000
Hardware
NANDTLCTLC
DRAM Cache✓★✗
ControllerSamsung in-house Controller—
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)
4,800
3,000
MTBF (hours)
1,500,000
1,750,000
Warranty (years)5★3
Features
Heatsink✓★✗
Hardware Encryption✓★—

Pros & Cons

Samsung 9100 PRO

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

SanDisk SSD

  • Strong endurance (100th percentile)100th %ile
  • Strong random (93rd percentile)93rd %ile
  • Strong speed (84th percentile)84th %ile
  • Below average social proof (5th percentile)5th %ile
  • Below average capacity (26th percentile)

Verdict

★ Winner: Samsung 9100 PRO

Scores 100 overall, wins 6 of 6 usage categories and 11 of 18 specs.

Samsung 9100 PRO Better at:

BudgetGamingLaptopConsolePortableWorkstation