If you’ve been waiting for PCIe Gen5 SSDs to drop to sensible prices, now’s the time to pounce. Samsung 9100 Pro delivers outrageous speed with none of the typical wallet-emptying pain, and this new deal gives Gen5 storage its most compelling value proposition yet.
Over on Amazon, both the 2TB and 4TB variants of Samsung’s flagship Gen5 drive have hit their lowest prices to date. The 2TB model now costs $240 / £210, up to a 20% reduction that saves you $60 / £15, while the 4TB version falls to $449.99 / £400, up to 18% off, shaving a clean $100 / £30 from its usual cost. These are the standard editions without heatsinks, though Amazon also stocks heatsink-clad versions for just $20 / £20 more.
Samsung 9100 Pro (4TB)
“Delivering class-leading speed in a small package, Samsung 9100 Pro is an SSD that makes a big splash following its long-awaited debut.” Read our review.
This is one of the few consumer SSDs that genuinely pushes Gen5 to its limits. Samsung’s Presto controller and V8 NAND combo unleash up to 14,800MB/s sequential read speeds and writes of 13,400MB/s, which are blistering fast. Perhaps the best part, however, is just how efficient it is with Samsung’s new 5nm controller gaining around a 49% better power draw versus the previous generation. Drawing just 9W at its peak, temps stay as low as 61°C in our Samsung 9100 Pro review.
Thanks to LPDDR4X DRAM cache (2GB on 2TB, 4GB on 4TB), latency is tight and sustained transfers stay smooth, which third‑party controllers often struggle with. Endurance’s no joke either: 1,200TBW (terabytes written) for 2TB, 2,400TBW for 4TB, all backed by a five‑year warranty.
PCIe 4.0 drives have already settled into affordable territory, and Samsung 9100 Pro isn’t miles behind, undercutting most of its Gen 5 rivals while offering flagship speeds that push PCIe 5.0 to its limits. At just over 11 cents per gigabyte for the 4TB model, it finally feels like next-gen storage is earning its place in regular builds.
If your motherboard includes robust M.2 cooling, skip the heatsink. But for builds where thermals matter, the $20 heatsink version is a solid safeguard. In the meantime, for more SSD deals, follow Club386 on Google News so you don’t miss out.
