So my own little review of this bad boy... and I mean bad in a good way.
I purchased the Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB model without a heatsink.
Installed smoothly, firmware once and the Magician utility twice since I've installed.
I've seen a lot of comments that the drive runs hot. And one solid review comparing temps between motherboard heatsinks and purchasing the model with a pre installed heatsink.
Long story short the temps are not an issue with the motherboard heatsink properly utilized and decent cooling. Admittedly my cooling MIGHT be considered overkill.
Performance testing is amazing, load times for LLM's is noticeably faster than on my 980pro 2tb I was running before. (Of course keep in mind I also went from a 5900x running on DDR4 with a 980pro, to a 9950x3d with DDR5 on the 9100 Pro 4TB.
You will note I call out the 4TB. For full performance of this series of drives that starts at the 4TB level.
So to get full throughput where it counts (Random read for my purposes) I needed the 4TB solution.
With gaming it is fast, but I can't say load times are markedly faster FEELING than my 980pro drive.
Cost is the other issue. If you're running a slower processor or even an Intel ultra series processor today, going for the top of the line NVME PCIE 5 x 4 drives is a waste of money. I did a different post about that on another thread in this sub forum.
Regardless if you want the performance and have a use case beyond wanting fast, or if you just have the disposable income. Go for it, it feels worth it to me thus far.
