It ushers in the first 8TB NVMe SSD in Samsung’s lineup.

Samsung's new 9100 PRO Series solid-state drives (SSDs) include the company's first consumer-grade 8TB NVMe SSD. The latest models use the speedy PCIe 5.0 standard, which — unless you train AI models for a living — is almost certainly overkill for your PC needs.

Part of what makes it Samsung's fastest SSD series to date is that it's the company's first consumer storage solution to hitch its wagon to the PCI Express 5.0 bus, which in turn enables much higher throughput than what's possible with PCIe 4.

Samsung India shared details about the upcoming 9100 Pro PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD, and here’s what the gurus need to know. The drive is coming in several capacities—1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB, and a soon-to-be-released 8 TB model.

This is not really a new technology, as we've had PCIe 5.0 hardware and even SSDs for months, if not years. But the

How fast do you need your computer’s storage to be? It probably doesn’t have to be as fast as you think (especially if you’re building a gaming PC). But if you’re moving big files around, you can definitely see the benefit of a faster drive — and Samsung’s first full-fat PCIe 5.