Samsung just dropped a new PCIe 5.0 gaming SSD, and the speeds look incredible

It’s taken a few years, but Samsung has finally signed up to the PCIe 5.0 SSD club, announcing a brand new line of super-fast drives. The company says the new Samsung 9100 Pro is up to 99% quicker than its predecessor, the already-fast 990 Pro, and that it’s even faster than the mighty Crucial T705 and MSI Spatium M580 Frozr.

Samsung also turned up late to the PCIe 4.0 party, but it absolutely ruled the roost in terms of sequential read and write performance, as we found in our Samsung 990 Pro review. It looks as though the company is going for a similar approach with the new 9100 Pro, which comes in capacities ranging from 1TB to 8TB, and boasts a maximum claimed sequential read speed of 14,800MB/s for the 4TB and 8TB drives.