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

I own a 2019 Elitedesk 800 g5 mini. I thought upgrading from a 1TB 980 Samsung Pro NVMe to the new SK Hynix P41 2TB Nvme would be a speed and storage space improvement. Sadly, it was not. You may feel excited owning one of the fastest newest PCIe 4th generation NVMe drives. However, it looks like a lot of motherboards before 2021 do not support this standard yet, so you will be running this 2TB drive on your older motherboards at 3rd generation speeds. Its slower than the 980 pro on my Elitedesk 800 g5. I am disappointed. I wanted 2TB of space, but not at a sacrifice of boot, web surfing and application loading speed. I compared see the hard disk led staying on much longer with my new 2TB drive. Perhaps the other thing you may not realize is that the NVMe drive is in the box between the plastic pieces. Its so light and sealed firmly that you may think you got an empty box. It is in there! Separate the two pieces of plastic protecting it!

I had two Intel m.2 drives in my computer before that could reach about 2000Mbs read and 1500Mbs write. I changed them out with this SK Hynix and a Samsung 990 Pro and the read/write has gone through the roof! Hovering around 20,000Mbs read and 18,000Mbs write is unbelievable!

Great boot drive for my Thinkpad P50 Laptop. Made a noticeable difference in my startup and loading time. Make sure you get a heat sink or a caddy with heat sink foam built in. It will keep your new drive cooler so that it does not start slowing itself down. I purchased this Platinum 1Tb because I was so pleased with the Gold Version 500Gb. Thanks and keep making a great product.

Its a PCIe 4.0 drive from a tech-dominant company... not shocking to see high speeds from this product. But, I do noticed a few things that are important to professional usage: > The ability to translate regular files into thumbnails (images) is incredible - almost instantaneous. Normally, I dont see an instant translation on the first use - very important for CAD and CAE files that take advantage of Windows thumbnail viewing. > Load time for CAD (i.e., Solidworks, Solid Edge) is much more fluent with larger assemblies - which most users dont care about (compared to Samsung 980 pro). If you use mechanical drives at this point - shame on you? > Opening video, music, and photos is a noticeable reward with this SSD (small file cache and multitasking is fabulous) > If you have an extensive movie or music library this drive is premium (small file handling) with crazy speed - helps with file conversions and compression/decompression. > Windows 10 load time has many factors - but this drive shaved 5 seconds from my previous SSD (total = 7 seconds). Yes, Im greedy, bias, and easily spoiled by advanced technology.

I love the storage capacity and the read speed of the NVMe SSD but for whatever reason I am unable to get anywhere close to the advertised write speed. It could very well be something wrong with my motherboard or OS config because my other SSDs seems to top out at around the same write speed as well. I tried enabling TRIM on windows 11 and that didnt seem to fix the problem

Bought the SK Hynix P41 Platinum Gen 4 1TB to replace Samsung EVO 970 Gen 3 512GB. Wanted faster Read and especially Write speed for video editing. Pros: Very easy to install & clone with free Macrium Reflect - my MB has 2 M2 Gen 4 slots & PCIe M2 riser board. P41 uses existing Windows drivers - nothing to install Placed P41 in 2nd Gen 4 M2 slot, cloned old EFIS boot partition & 160 GB C: System partition, then switched over to boot from P41 with no probs. Cons: No supplied heatsink - runs hotter under load than M2 Gen 3, but not as warm as other Gen 4 drives – did fine with basic ASUS MB heatsink. SK Hynix website awful - all Sales, no real Support - tried for 2 days to download Hynix Drive manager software - would download very slowly, then crash. Had to get file from 3rd party (Softpedia) Software is so limited as to be not worth downloading. Other: Strange Write results on ChrystalDiskMark. I have both a C: partition and D: partition on the P41. The D: partition yields SEQ read of 6595MB/s and Write of 6041 MB/s - not what Hynix claimed, but they do say UP TO for their specs. The C partition has similar Read specs, but only can manage 3285 MB/s Write speed. Same M2 NVME Gen 4 slot, same P41 drive, just different partitions. Tried the P41 in both the CPU linked M2 Gen 4 slot and the X570 chipset Gen 4 linked slot - same disparity System is ASUS TUF X570 MB, Ryzen 5900X, DDR4 4000 mem, latest AGESA V2 PI 1.2.0.7 BIOS and AMD chipset drivers. When loading ~175 GB files on D: drive, did run into the “SLC cache full” speed drop – didn’t expect it at that level of transfer, but did recover in a few mins. Overall, for the price, this is a good value for the average user. If you have money to burn on better drive or just have to have the one with the absolute highest specs, do so. For the rest of us, this is an affordable & more than capable Gen 4 drive.

It was a semi easy install. Did have to buy a heatsink for it. But it works amazing. The games that you change over go super fast.

The fastest SSD I’ve ever seen by a lot. It’s the crown jewel on my 13900k/4090 build.

I get a solid 7GB/sec read on an AM5 motherboard setup. Game load times are faster and the system feels snappier. Highly recommended.

Install was easy on z790 e gaming stix motherboard. Dont need a heatsink with that motherboard as it comes with its own cooling solution. Make sure to read your motherboard guide on adding ssds as some reccomeded to add an extra thermal pad.