Samsung's Innovative PM9E1 Gen5 SSD Is Optimized For AI And NVIDIA DGX Spark

Remember the Samsung 9100 PRO? We reviewed it back in August. It's an amazing performer, and despite being a high-end PCI Express 5.0 SSD offering sequential speeds in excess of 13GB/second, it actually runs pretty cool thanks to the use of a custom 5nm "Presto" SSD controller. If you wanted an SSD 9100 PRO but you've only got an M.2-2242 slot—say, because you have a Lenovo Legion Go or DGX Spark—you were outta luck, at least until today.

That's because Samsung just announced a new iteration on its extant PM9E1 SSD (the B2B version of the 9100 PRO) that is both M.2-2242 and 4TB in capacity, a pairing it purports to be the first to achieve, at least in the space of PCIe 5.0 SSDs. From a cursory search, we indeed don't see any other SSDs that are all ...