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Samsung’s SSD 9100 Pro comes in a box with a clear image of the front. On the bottom right-hand side of the box, we find a sticker displaying the drive’s capacity and Sequential read speed (up to 14,700MB/s). The rear of the box has a multilingual information panel giving the web address for more detailed warranty information. Under this is a reminder that the drive comes with a 5-year limited warranty.
Samsung's 2TB SSD 9100 Pro is built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format. Under the long Product label on the front of the drive sits Samsung's latest Presto controller, two packages of Samsung's 8th generation 236-Layer TLC NAND (V-NAND) and a 2GB LPDDR4X cache IC.
Details about the Presto PCIe 5.0 controller are rather scarce but what we do know is that it is an 8-channel design built on a 5nm process.
Gen 5 drives are notorious for the heat they generate. Samsung has tried to alleviate the problem with the SSD 9100 Pro in several different ways. First and most important is the 6nm architecture of the controller, the controller itself has a nickel coating while the product sticker on the rear of the drive has a built-in copper layer and finally there is Samsung’s DTG (Dynamic Thermal Guard) algorithm.
Samsung’s SSD management utility, Magician, can be downloaded from Samsung’s website. Samsung continually updates Magician, and the latest version (at the time of writing) is v8.2. Magician is a pretty comprehensive utility that allows you to do most of the maintenance jobs you may need to do with an SSD and lists them under two headings: Drive Management and Data Management.
Drive Management
Data Management
