If you’re a creative professional working on a resource-heavy project, every second spent waiting for lag or load is mildly irritating on its own, but adds up to a real waste of your valuable time. These pauses break your creative momentum, which can have an effect on the quality of your work.
Though a video editor or motion designer using apps like DaVinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere Pro might misdiagnose a sluggish edit session and blame it on the CPU or GPU, often the actual problem lies elsewhere: in the capability of the storage.
The Samsung 9100 PRO has become a go-to dedicated scratch drive for professionals who don’t want to wait around, handling the heavy 4K and 8K media that timelines, caches, and renders throw at it with raw throughput. Pair it with the Samsung 990 PRO as a system drive to keep the operating system, applications, and everyday tasks moving quickly, and you've got a storage setup built the way professional workstations should be: one drive for massive file handling, one for snappiness.
It's a combination increasingly found in workstations like the Scan 3XS Evolve range, built specifically for video editors, motion designers, and content creators. Here's what that actually means for the way different creatives work day to day.
01. Video editors deal with less lag, and get started quicker
If the drive is lagging when handling heavy 4K/8K footage edits, you can’t maintain a smooth workflow. The Samsung 9100 PRO scratch disk’s next-level PCIe 5.0 performance keeps up with high-bitrate media effortlessly. Everything stays responsive, speeding things up and saving you frustration.
And when you’re opening Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, the Samsung 990 PRO system drive keeps the apps and projects loading almost instantly, shrinking the gap between sitting down and being inside a timeline to nothing. If you multiply that saving across every app launch and project switch in a week, it's a real chunk of time you can use elsewhere.
02. Motion designers keep dense projects feeling light
Compositing software leans heavily on storage every time it loads cached previews or project assets. On a slower drive, that manifests as stutters when scrubbing or pauses when switching between comps. The PCIe 5.0 power of the Samsung 9100 PRO helps those everyday interactions stay fluid even as a project grows more complex, feeding massive cache files to your software without bottlenecking. Meanwhile, the Samsung 990 PRO ensures the underlying software and OS layers remain completely lag-free.
03. Content creators multitask without being slowed down
Few creative jobs involve doing just one thing at once. A content creator might have a massive render exporting to their project drive, a browser full of reference tabs open, and a chat app pinging away, all while trying to keep editing software responsive in the foreground. That kind of multitasking is exactly where raw storage performance shows its value, since multiple background processes are competing for the drive's attention.
The Samsung 9100 PRO handles these heavy, sustained read/write demands efficiently, meaning background asset transfers or rendering tasks are far less likely to drag down the performance of your active timeline. Everything keeps running exactly as it should.
04. Every creative gets a workstation that delivers instant results
If you’re creating on a machine with no lag or friction, you’ll feel the benefit in your creative output. In a workstation like the Scan 3XS Evolve, that's the role the Samsung 9100 PRO plays, enabling PCIe 5.0 performance to handle the sustained demands of active project files, large media libraries, and smoother 4K and 8K timelines. It is perfectly paired alongside the Samsung 990 PRO, which handles the system-level responsiveness and everyday snappy multitasking.
Together, they split the workload the way a professional setup should, with one drive built for sustained power through the most demanding creative work, the other built for instant responsiveness.
The Conclusion
While the individual benefits of the workstation components may not sound flashy, they join up to result in a transformed workflow. You’ll know that when you sit down to work, the machine is ready for you, and you won’t have to wait to jump in, or when working throughout your project.
The Samsung 9100 PRO and Samsung 990 PRO are available as scratch and system drive options across the Scan 3XS Evolve workstation range, configurable at scan.co.uk.
