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

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!

The price is amazing, compared with others this thing has more spec’s it does on incredible job, my computer went from a snail to speedy gonzales

Was looking for a good SSD storage to upgrade my PS5. I had my doubts, especially with how cheap this was (at least at the time of purchase). However, it was worked surprisingly great! The transfer speed is the real sinker though, only took about a minute to move all my existing games to this storage. Id honestly come back to this company if I ever need to upgrade another storage.

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!

Its a fast drive. I used Macrium to clone my boot drive. You can download Macrium or get the Hynix version. I was able to resize the partition easy as pie. The new drive is literally 10x faster than the SSD it replaced, but but that doesnt mean your computer will run 10x faster. Disk transfers are snappy. The drive runs pretty hot, you will need to buy a heat shield if your MB doe not have one. In a small case, consider something a bit cooler. Overall, works great.

Crazy fast! The test results shows it all. I did have to go to my bios and change the PCIe from auto to PCIe 4. I recommend to download Samsung magician to check if the drive is running at PCIe 4 x 4.

Quick with plenty of storage space.

I have PCIe3.0 only and purchased the 2TB m.2 NVMe after having horrible perf issues with a different vendor SP40G 4TB. I decided on this SSD vs Samsung after reading another review that this SSD has good random IO perf. Overall reliable R/W performance of over 1GBytes/s compared to the last 4TB from Amazon that throttled down to zero Mbytes when it got hot, ie over 70C or when the drive is over 1TB full, the speeds drops. The 2TB SKHynix was running steady even when it got hot over 70C and close to being full. I stopped the file/copy after it reached 73C to avoid possible damage. Pros: Great consistent read/write performance, even with random files. Cons: Gets hot fast when read/writing gigabytes of data, definitely needs a heatsink so the SSD will last. Wish they have a 4TB with this level or performance with good price point. Make sure to test out the performance of the SSD when coping/writing from the same SSD with gigabytes of data. Some of the SSD out there crap out on this test and perf goes way down, ie even to zero for a while.

For those of you who dont know, SK Hynix has sponsor a lot of E-SPORTS games, they are a well known company in the industry, plus they make memory for your GPUs! they are not some small time shop trying to get big. Using this NVME has been awesome, I can honestly say on a PCIE 3.0 system you CAN feel the snappiness of the system, I dont get this from WD SN750 or Seagate Firecuda 530 and yes I understand PCIE 3.0 does not get the full speed of 4.0. Additionally, I can seee my download has gone up significantly in speed, I tested this along side with my Firecuda and WD SN750. is it the IOPS? I dont know, could it be the speed of my network change in possibly within an hour of the testing period? yes but Im willing to bet its this drive. I really wish this company make a bigger drive 4tb version, because that is the reason why I return it, because it only comes in 2tb :( PLEASE MAKE 4TB...I would totally sell my Firecuda 4tb version for a SK Hynix 4tb gold or platinum!

I bought this drive based on a comparison review I read with the big players (ie Samsung, Western Digital et al) where it seemed to outperform in a number of categories related to r/w speeds and overall energy use. I bought it not sure if it would even function in the the Dell laptop I put it in which came with a 250gb drive. The laptop recognized the drive without issue. I also put Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 on it. Flawless install, works perfectly, boots faster and now with 8x the space. Now I wonder if this mobo can accept 32 gb of memory. Hmmmm…