Samsung 9100 PRO 1TB – M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD (MZ-VAP1T0BW)

Samsung 9100 PRO 1TB – M.2 NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD

The Samsung 9100 PRO is Samsung's fastest consumer drive – PCIe 5.0 x4 with an in-house controller and V-NAND TLC memory. Speeds approaching 15 GB/s shorten the loading of games and projects, and a large cache maintains high performance during long copy operations. The 1 TB capacity holds the system, programs and a dozen or so games. The manufacturer's part number is MZ-VAP1T0BW.

Speed

According to the manufacturer, the 1 TB version reaches up to 14,700 MB/s sequential read and up to 13,300 MB/s sequential write. The drive will also work in a PCIe 4.0 or 3.0 slot, in which case the speed is limited by the slot.

For gaming, video and AI

This is a drive for gamers with a platform with an M.2 Gen5 slot, creators working with 4K/8K footage and people running local AI models. The Samsung Magician software lets you update firmware, check the drive's health and migrate the system from an old drive.

Installation and cooling

Version without a heatsink – for installation under the motherboard's M.2 heatsink. Samsung also offers a separate 9100 PRO variant with a heatsink.

Specifications