Samsung
Samsung 9100 Pro
$339.99Cheaper
Released 2025-03
Best Internal Ssds · head-to-head
A sourced, side-by-side comparison. Samsung 9100 Pro is cheaper at $339.99. Every spec and price links to its source.
Samsung
$339.99Cheaper
Released 2025-03
Corsair
$474.99
Released 2023-11
The Samsung 9100 Pro wins 2 of the 2 specs we compare head to head; the other wins 0. The Samsung 9100 Pro is the cheaper at $339.99. The Samsung 9100 Pro both leads on specs and costs less — the straightforward pick.
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The numbers that decide it, drawn to scale — longer bar wins, the accent bar is the stronger figure.
✓ marks the stronger figure where "more" — or "less", for price and weight — is unambiguously better.
| Spec | | |
|---|---|---|
| US price | $339.99 | $474.99 |
| Brand | Samsung | Corsair |
| Released | 2025-03 | 2023-11 |
| Capacity options (TB) | 1,2,4,8 | 1, 2, 4 |
| Form factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe | PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe |
| Seq read (Mbps) | 14800 | 12400 |
| Seq write (Mbps) | 13400 | 11800 |
| Random read kiops | 2200 | 1500 |
| Random write kiops | 2600 | 1600 |
| Nand type | TLC | 3D TLC |
| Has dram cache | Yes | Yes |
| Endurance tbw | 600 | 700 |
| Warranty years | 5 | 5 |
Sources — Samsung 9100 Pro: samsung.com (verified 2026-07-11). Corsair MP700 PRO: corsair.com (verified 2026-07-11).
Where the two actually differ on the specs we track (7 of 11). Matching specs are omitted.
Sourced tester consensus for each — the "what people who used it think" layer, not just specs.
Three whitelisted labs (Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp, StorageReview) hands-on-tested the Samsung 9100 Pro, Samsung's first PCIe Gen5 consumer SSD, and agree it is among the fastest and most power-efficient consumer Gen5 drives, with record sequential reads of 14.2 GB/s (TechPowerUp) and 14,600 MB/s (StorageReview). Tom's Hardware and TechPowerUp temper the praise: both flag the premium price and frame the drive as a refined last-generation solution rather than revolutionary, and TechPowerUp additionally documents a sharp post-SLC-cache write drop (to 1.3 GB/s) and throttling without a heatsink. StorageReview is the most upbeat, calling its pricing competitive and the drive one of the most capable on the market. HotHardware was excluded as non-whitelisted. Tom's Hardware's page 2/3 benchmark figures (SLC-cache write, post-cache write, temperature) were not present on the fetched review page and were dropped as unverifiable. (3 sourced reviews, 3 lab-tested.)
Praised: Record-setting sequential read; fastest consumer SSD in their tests; Excellent real-world, all-around and gaming performance; Strong power efficiency for a Gen5 drive.
Flagged: Highest / premium price among Gen5 drives; Needs a heatsink; bare drive can throttle under sustained load; Not revolutionary — an evolution of last-gen / best Gen4 tech.
One whitelisted lab (StorageReview) hands-on tested the 2TB MP700 PRO air-cooler model and ranks it among the better consumer PCIe Gen5 SSDs, measuring ~12.4 GB/s CrystalDiskMark reads and ~11.8 GB/s writes. Praised for chart-topping sequential speed and its active-cooling heatsink design. Flagged for write and random-IO throughput trailing top competitors — 3rd place in sequential writes and near the bottom of the boot-IOPS leaderboard (51,521 IOPS). The TechPowerUp review was dropped because its paginated content was not retrievable and none of its cited quotes or figures could be verified. (1 sourced review, 1 lab-tested.)
Praised: Chart-topping sequential transfer speeds (~12.4 GB/s read, ~11.8 GB/s write); Standout active-cooling heatsink design.
Flagged: Write and random-IO throughput trails top competitors (3rd in sequential writes; near bottom of boot-IOPS leaderboard).