Even new high-end gaming laptops, such as the currently discounted HP Omen Max 16 with RTX 5080, are often equipped with rather small SSDs with 1TB of capacity. That's not nearly enough to store a reasonable number of games, especially since most modern titles require well over 100GB of storage these days.
Therefore, gamers and other storage-hungry laptop or PC users who already have a PCIe 5.0-compatible device at hand should take a look at Amazon's latest offer for the Samsung 9100 Pro, which is the company's latest and fastest M.2 NVMe SSD and was officially launched just a few months ago. Specifically, Amazon is now selling the 4TB model variant of this new Samsung SSD for $463 instead of $549. This results in a price drop of 16 percent or $86 that occurred over the last few weeks according to Camelcamelcamel's price history.
In terms of speed, the Samsung 9100 Pro easily surpasses flagship PCIe 4.0 SSDs like the 990 Pro with relative ease. Sequential reading takes place at up to 14,800MB/s, while sequential writing maxes out at 13,400MB/s. Furthermore, the 4TB Samsung SSD is equipped with durable TLC NAND with an official endurance of 2,400 TBW.
As always, the solid-state drive is covered by a five-year manufacturer warranty, and users who are regularly working with large files and put a lot of stress on their SSD might want to check out the Samsung 9100 Pro with a pre-installed heatsink, which currently sells for a reasonable $20 premium on Amazon. Either way, this SSD deal is mostly suitable for storage enthusiasts and other demanding users who think that PCIe 5.0 speeds are worth the extra money, which is arguably not the case for the vast majority of regular consumers.
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