Samsung Launches 9100 PRO Series 8 TB SSD for $999.99 Without Heatsink, $1,019.99 With

OOF... while I like mine... I don't know that I would consider spending 1k for 8TB in a single drive. At least not right now. ESPECIALLY for consumer grade TBW.
 
If you're on say AMD and ITX, and you're limited to a single PCIe 5.0 NVMe slot, and you need the storage space at speed... then I guess?

I feel that this is more just Samsung demonstrating that they've cleared the technical hurdle. Typically consumer 8TB NVMe drives are QLC etc.

Grimlakin said:
ESPECIALLY for consumer grade TBW.
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Yeah, while having 8TB of flash will likely mitigate a substantial amount of abuse - it's not hard to see that a scenario that reaches the point of being 'abusive' would probably benefit from enterprise durability.
 
I think for most of us this is more of a nice to dream about kind of thing. I've found 4 TB plenty for my gaming rigs and even though I can fill it, I don't really need to. After a bit there's plenty of games I'll never go back to at this point. However I totally agree that if you only have one 5.0 slot then this starts to look like an option if you've got the cash and it can support the speeds and cooling.
 
LazyGamer said:
Yeah, while having 8TB of flash will likely mitigate a substantial amount of abuse - it's not hard to see that a scenario that reaches the point of being 'abusive' would probably benefit from enterprise durability.
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I thought the larger the drive the better it handles abuse due to wear leveling. Meaning you basically have to abuse a 8TB drive 2x as much as a 4TB to have the same amount of wear.
 
MadMummy76 said:
I thought the larger the drive the better it handles abuse due to wear leveling. Meaning you basically have to abuse a 8TB drive 2x as much as a 4TB to have the same amount of wear.
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I'll file that under 'yes' and also 'it depends'. If Samsung just put 2x the amount of flash on the drive, then yes; if they accounted for the additional wear resistance and lowered the amount of flash to keep TBW the same, then no.
 
the TBW is 2x the 4 TB drive so it's greater... just for that kind of size.. I'd want more durability. But that's just me.
 
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