"Looking for an 8TB PCIe 5.0 SSD? Well you're in luck, because Samsung has announced an 8TB variant of its excellent 9100 Pro M.2 2280 SSD. But such an impressive SSD is going to come with an equally impressive price tag. The 8TB model is available from Samsung's store for $999.99 , and that's for the bare drive. If you want the version with the heatsink, that'll set you back ."
"Digging through the spec sheet, it's clear that the 8TB 9100 Pro packs some serious horsepower. It's capable of sequential reads of up to 14,800 MB/s, and writes up to 13,400 MB/s, which is the same as the 4TB version of the 9100 Pro, but twice as fast as the 990 PRO SSD line. Random read and writes are equally impressive, at 2,200K and 2,600K IOPS, respectively."
"Also: Stop buying cheap, no-name SSD drives - here's why Samsung's new 5-nanometer controller, the chip at the heart of this drive, claims a power efficiency of up to 49% compared to the 990 PRO SSD, which means the drive has less waste heat to deal with. But despite this, if you're going to be pushing this drive close to its limits, I highly recommend dropping the extra $20 on the heatsink."
Samsung's 9100 Pro M.2 2280 now includes an 8TB PCIe 5.0 SSD option priced at $999.99 for the bare drive, with a higher cost for the heatsink-equipped model. The drive achieves up to 14,800 MB/s sequential read and 13,400 MB/s sequential write, with random IOPS of 2,200K read and 2,600K write. The SSD targets demanding workloads such as AI, 4K/8K video rendering, and gaming, and fits laptops, desktops with PCIe 5.0, and PlayStation 5. A new 5-nm controller claims up to 49% better power efficiency versus the 990 PRO, and a heatsink is recommended under heavy loads.
Read at ZDNET
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