Samsung's 9100 Pro SSD is the world's fastest consumer drive, hitting 14,800 MB/s sequential read speeds

What just happened? Samsung has expanded its consumer SSD lineup with the launch of the 9100 Pro series solid-state drives featuring PCIe 5.0 speeds. Built on an improved version of Samsung's TLC V8 V-NAND flash, this is the South Korean company's first "true" Gen 5 SSD, delivering blazingly fast speeds and more storage capacity than its predecessors. Samsung claims that the 9100 Pro series delivers up to 14,800 MB/s of sequential read speeds, potentially making it the fastest consumer SSD on the market. It also achieves 13,400 MB/s of sequential write speeds, making it twice as fast as the company's existing products. The new drives reach random read/write speeds of up to 2,200K/2,600K IOPS, enabling users to access large games, files, and apps faster than ever before. Samsung is launching the 9100 Pro in four configurations: a 1TB variant with 1GB of LPDDR4X cache, a 2TB model with 2GB of LPDDR4X cache, a 4TB model with 4GB of LPDDR4X cache, and an 8TB model with 8GB of LPDDR4X cac ... Read full article.