In context: While memory price hikes across the board are widely documented and are affecting numerous tech products, SSDs have not been the exception: NAND prices have climbed dramatically over the past year, pushing retail prices up by almost 200% in some cases. Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale is offering temporary relief on select products, including big discounts on Samsung's flagship 9100 Pro SSD that bring the lower-capacity models back to roughly their launch prices.
The 9100 Pro comes in four capacities: 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB. The 1TB model is currently $206, about 39% below its regular list price of $339. The 2TB model carries an even steeper 49% discount and is listed at $349, while the 4TB and 8TB variants are down to $750 and $2,280, respectively, roughly 45% and 16% off their list prices.
The 9100 Pro also sits at the top of our Prime Big Deal Days deals roundup, where we've filtered out recycled prices and weak discounts to highlight the offers actually worth your attention.
At launch, the 1TB model was priced at $200, while the 2TB and 4TB versions went for $300 and $550. The 8TB model arrived later at $1,000. That puts the 1TB and 2TB drives close enough to launch pricing that this is as good a time as any to upgrade your rig if you've been planning to, while the 4TB and 8TB versions remain well above theirs.
Consistently rated among the best consumer SSDs for gamers and power users, the 9100 Pro features 236-layer V8 NAND and Samsung's in-house 5nm Presto controller. The drives offer PCIe 5.0 connectivity in an M.2 2280 form factor, an endurance rating of up to 4,800 TBW, and random read/write speeds of up to 2,200K/2,600K IOPS.
The flagship 8TB model delivers sequential read speeds of up to 14,800 MB/s and write speeds of up to 13,400 MB/s, while the base 1TB model reaches up to 14,700 MB/s and 13,300 MB/s, respectively. The 2TB and 4TB models both hit 13,400 MB/s in sequential writes, with sequential reads rated at 14,700 and 14,800 MB/s, respectively.
The big flagship 8TB model delivers maximum sequential read speeds up to 14,800 MB/s and write speeds up to 13,400 MB/s, while the base 1TB model reaches up to 14,700 MB/s and 13,300 MB/s, respectively. The 2TB and 4TB models both hit 13,400 MB/s of sequential write, while the sequential read is listed at 14,700 and 14,800 MB/s, respectively.
Samsung announced the 9100 Pro series in early 2025 and began selling the 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models the following month, with the 8TB version arriving later that year. The lineup delivers high-end performance across laptop and desktop PC use, or in game consoles like the PS5. Samsung claims the new controller makes the SSDs up to 49% more power efficient than their predecessor, the 990 Pro.
While PCIe 5.0 remains the industry standard for consumer SSDs, Samsung is already mass producing next-generation enterprise-class SSDs built on the PCIe 6.0 interface. Designed to meet the storage demands of AI data centers and high-performance computing environments, the PM1763 range will be offered in 4TB, 8TB, and 16TB configurations at launch.
The new enterprise-class SSDs promise more than double the performance of Samsung's PCIe 5.0 PM1753, with claimed sequential read and write speeds of up to 28.4 GB/s and 21.9 GB/s, respectively, on the 16TB model.
Samsung is also advertising random read and write speeds of up to 6,800K and 950K IOPS, respectively. At those speeds, the drives can transfer a 40GB LLM in just 1.4 seconds.