Samsung 9100 PRO 2 TB vs Samsung 9100 PRO 1 TB

Short answer: which is best?

Samsung 9100 PRO 2 TB is 0.5 % stronger than Samsung 9100 PRO 1 TB. Samsung 9100 PRO 2 TB ranks #1 of 134 measured system drives at WhatFPS (19,442 Drive score in its best run — best of 2 rigs, 2 verified runs). Samsung 9100 PRO 1 TB ranks #2 of 134 measured system drives at WhatFPS (19,336 Drive score in its best run — best of 2 rigs, 10 verified runs). Each part is shown at its best run, picked from 12 verified WhatFPS runs — measured, not estimated, not self-reported.

Measured comparison

MetricSamsung 9100 PRO 2 TBSamsung 9100 PRO 1 TB
Drive score, best run (the drive's own performance: sequential read + 4K IOPS)19,44219,336
Best rig (GAMING — whole PC)15,29016,064
Sequential read6,882 MB/s6,547 MB/s
4K IOPS19,27920,045
4K latency, median (lower is better)44 µs46 µs
TypeNVMe SSDNVMe SSD
Size2 TB1 TB

What the numbers mean

The headline score is the part's best measured run, and the measurements under it come from that same run. It shows what the part has been proven to do — not what an average rig gets out of it. The drive score is the system drive's measured performance in the rigs it sat in — sequential read and 4K IOPS, unbuffered. PCIe generation, fill level and driver affect it. GAMING is the whole rig's score. We show both and never mix them.

All numbers come from our benchmark suite, the same test on every PC, written in Rust with no middleware. The methodology is open at https://whatfps.com/metodik

All measurements for Samsung 9100 PRO 2 TB · All measurements for Samsung 9100 PRO 1 TB