SK hynix Platinum P41 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 2280 Internal Gaming SSD, Up to 7,000MB/S, Compact M.2 SSD Form Factor SSD - Internal Solid State Drive with 176-Layer NAND Flash

As the reviews state, the P41 is very fast, but it runs hot. I also own a Seagate Firecuda 530 1TB, which is in the top-tier just like the KC3000, SN850(X) and 980 PRO. My recommendation is unless you absolutely need the extra speed, IOPS, 4K writes, etc., that this drive offers, I would recommend looking at the Firecuda 530. The 530 runs about 12c-14c cooler than the P41. I ended up replacing my motherboards m.2 heatsink cover with the Acidalie heatsink, which ultimately dropped the temps by 7c-8c at load. Before the Acidalie, the temps were 68-69c during a gaming session for Sensor 1 and upper 70s to low 80s for Sensor 2. After the Acidalie, Im in the low 60s.

If its only 1.8TB of usable storage, it shouldnt be sold as a 2TB drive. Companies have been doing this for ages, it still is wrong in my opinion. Another frustrating thing about this drive (and several competitors, Sabrent did include it though) is a complete lack of mounting hardware. A tiny screw and a simple motherboard insert would cost them 10 cents to include, if that.. The hole is the same size on almost every motherboard. Ive swapped the insert between ASUS/MSI/EVGA boards without issue. If theyre worried about the size, include a few different sets. Its pretty reasonable to expect some mounting hardware for a product this expensive. Luckily I keep a jar of screws and found a set that fit, something I doubt most people have or do. Another thing is, dont expect anywhere close to 7GB/s in real performance. Moving/writing files from one gen 4 PCI-e nvme to this one, lucky to get around 150MB/s moving smaller files, closer to 250MB/s with large files (in excess of 1GB). & yes thats BYTES and not BITS (1 byte=8 bits, MB=Megabyte and Mb=Megabit) Speed tests are not an accurate representation of real world use drive performance (which is the reason it says Up to 7,000MB/s) Regardless, this is a decent drive and the performance is what Id expect out of a 4th Gen drive. As a network engineer, the advertising is just misleading. When Im working with data center scale environments exceeding the petabyte range, working with NetApp filers weighing 300LB filled with drives, the sales people arent trying to jip you over a few GB. Theyre sold and advertised with the usable storage and speeds....

Its hard to argue against Hynix, unless Samsung is having a crazy sale. Even then, you know enthusiast-grade Hynix products arent junk. But I wasnt expecting this to put my venerable 980 Pro to bed. On a lark, I bought two 2TB drives during Amazons Black Friday sale, and my only regret is not buying three. The read speed is neck and neck with the 980 Pro, but the write speed is nearly 2,000 MB/s faster. Thats jaw-dropping. You can see the results in the attached image. Thats on a secondary drive in an MSI Z690 Pro board with no heatsink at all. Not an enthusiast board. Not active cooling. Not even passive cooling (besides the Hynix sticker). Nothing crazy. And just over 7,100 read / 6,700 write is impressive at an enthusiast-grade price. Even a regular price. But at the bargain basement price these were going for? I almost feel like a thief!

Actually getting those advertised speeds on this drive is killer. The system is snappy and crisp! I dont know if its because the drive is paired with the 32gb sk hynix m die ram (wish I could have gotten a die 64gb kit) that its really responsive but, Im super pleased with this drive. Should have went with a 2tb instead of the 1tb is the only downside for me, definitely recommend.

I use this drive for my games, and it is a very quick drive with a great price per GB and a warranty that meets or exceeds the competition. Theres a reason its highly rated by all the reputable review sites. The only downside is that SK Hynix doesnt have a robust software suite like Samsung does with Samsung Magician, but the price is much lower and speeds higher, which is a great tradeoff.

Bought it because I had a hard drive and it was very slow and I couldn’t play with my friends on my pc, this sad was a big upgrade and did exactly what I wanted. I can play games with my friends and everything loads so much faster.

Im very happy with my SSD. SK Hynix definitely made the right decision making and marketing their own SSDs after all these years. It does what it says on the tin, and is priced competitively with the Samsung 980 Gen 4 taking into account the fact the Hynix does not include the heatsink. I bought the Sabrent Rocket heatsink to put on it and that fits and works great as well. Image of speed test included, I got over 6,300 MB/s read speed which is pretty darn close to the 7,000 claimed, my PC is a pretty modest system running a Ryzen 5 5600x, 16GB of DDR4 3600 RAM, and Radeon RX5700 GPU so I would have been surprised to get max speed out of it. As it stands I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for a good M.2 Gen 4 SSD. The 5 year warranty tells you they stand behind their products as well.

I ordered the 2TB model for $168 during black friday which was a pretty good deal (especially for how high end this NVMe drive is!) for my PlayStation 5 along with the Elecgear heatsink. For anyone thats wondering, theyre a great combination! Ive not used it at all in a PC but its my understanding that it hits higher speed results on a PC due to how the PS5 just works in general. As an example of how quickly games copy to it, it took 6 minutes and 27 seconds to copy over 457GB of data from the system storage onto the NVMe drive. Very fast!

Just built a watercooled MSI Carbon black MB EKWB not sure why the write speed and random read write is so much lower.

Glad this came in when it did I was doing a build and needed it bad.