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

Super expensive, but for my needs, the value of the storage device is fairly met to the price. I payed 102 USD. The instructions for installation get two thumbs up from me even though I didnt need them. Well see how reliable it ends up being, it has only been half a year.

As you can see from the CrystalDiskMark image above, this is one of the fastest m.2 drives on the market. At the current prices, its is extremely hard to justify purchasing a traditional hard drive as a system drive when a SSD or m.2 drive will do. I prefer m.2 over SSDs because thats two less cables to interfere with the air flow.

Photo speaks for itself! My PC specs CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4080 Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX X670E-A GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 (F5-6000J3038F16GX2-TZ5NR)

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

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.

It works as expected in both Linux and Windows. In Windows 11, the OS does not acknowledge the hardware encryption (you can tell by disabling fallback to software encryption in the group policy entry). That being said, the benchmarks before and after software encryption were very close. On the encryption aspect, there is a reddit discussion about it, saying the encryption is, TCG Pyrite. According to several articles, it doesnt really qualify as encryption, so software encryption is better than nothing.

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!

I own 2 one in my pc and one in ps5. The both work well.

Well worth it when on sale.

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.