Samsung 9100 Pro 2TB Gen 5 SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Samsung 9100 Pro 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.

The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.

Traces used:

Booting Windows 10.
Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
Overwatch – starting the game until main menu.
Using Adobe After Effects.
Using Microsoft Excel.
Using Adobe Illustrator.
Using Adobe InDesign.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
cp2 Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
cp3 Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
cps1Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
cps2 Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
cps3 Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).

Tested using the Adobe startup traces in PCMark10's Full System Drive benchmark, the drive averaged 366MB/s for the six tests, with the fastest being 480MB/s for the Premiere Pro trace and 268MB/s for the slowest, the Lightroom startup trace. When tested with the Adobe usage traces, the SSD 9100 Pro averaged 697MB/s for the five tests, which includes the 1,500MB/s result for the Adobe Photoshop heavy usage trace. The slowest of the five traces was the InDesign trace at 340MB/s

The three gaming traces produced an average result of 1,170MB/s, the fastest being Battlefield V at 1,584MB/s, next came Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 at 1,283MB/s and last and quite some way back, Overwatch at 645MB/s.

When it came to the file transfers, the fastest was the cp3 Read test at 7,588MB/s with the drive averaging 4,092MB/s for the six file transfer tests.

Samsung's 9100 Pro slips into third place in the overall bandwidth chart with a score of 797.7MB/s.

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