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Today, Samsung has sent over their brand new 9100 PRO 2TB Gen5 NVMe SSD for review. From the beginning of the SSD revolution with SATA SSDs, Samsung was a market leader in the consumer space. They held an edge during the SATA generation, and their 970 EVO product was a leader during the advent of NVMe SSDs. For Gen4, while Samsung did have a product in the 980 PRO and 990 PRO, they did not distinguish themselves in the same way as the brand to beat.

Ever since AMD released the first Ryzen 5800X3D chip, they have become some of the top-end mainstream CPUs on the market. Combining the already powerful Zen-based compute clusters with additional stacked L3 cache has proven a strong combination for gamers as well as for many applications ranging from virtualization to professional engineering. While the 5800X3D had only 8 Zen 3 cores, AMD upped the ante with the 7950X3D, a variant of their 16-core desktop SKU that offers the additional cache.

Today, we are looking at the Lexar PLAY 2280 4TB NVMe SSD. Just over a year ago I took a look at a 2230 sized drive in Lexar’s PLAY line, and today we have a more standard 2280 sized entry. Despite sharing the PLAY branding, this drive and that are very different, in more ways than just size, as you will see in my review. If you want to check the current pricing or want to pick up a drive, you can find the Amazon Affiliate link here.