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 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!

Simply put, If you want one of the fastest NVME PCIE 4 drives this is it. I installed it in a newer Z790 motherboard and have benchmarked it. It replaced a PCIE 3 Samsung 970 Pro NVME. This one is twice as fast. How that gets perceived in day to day computer use is up to the reviewer but I can say I do notice a slight difference. You can download migration software and drive management software free from SKHynix website. The migration software was straightforward and worked well. The management software is fine but lacks some of the features and polish of Samsungs Magician software. If you own a PC, no you dont really need a drive this fast unless you are a professional of some sort. Otherwise a regular SATA SSD will be cheaper and fast enough. I would recommend this if you want to take advantage of newer motherboards fast storage capabilities and just want to have the fastest drive available at this time.

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

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.

Well worth it when on sale.

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

Works as well as my Samsung 980. And no memory firmware problem.

Purchased the 1tb model. Ran both new,with equal settings in Crystaldiskmark x64 brand new 1tb wd sn850x and the 1tb Hynix Platinum P41 took a massive dump all over the WD 850X. Of course it went on to crush my 1tb wd sn850 regular too. I did it yesterday but the p41 was about 7400/6900 sequential. The 850x was something like 6800/5600. I did it twice and results were pretty much the same.

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.

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!