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

Ive been watching a few videos about the Samsung 990 Pro, and Ive wanted to upgrade to it: from my previous 960 Pro NVMe SSD. The 990 Pro was going to be too expensive, so I started looking at reasonable/comparable alternatives. I had seen the Solidigm P44 Pro, and my initial impressions made me feel that: that would be the route I would likely take. Fortunately, I also noticed that the P44 Pro was the same hardware as this Platinum P41, with just different firmware (allegedly). When Black Friday deals were posted, I noticed that this P41 was listed as on discount, and I decided that: any minor differences between the P44 and P41 were likely not going to impact me; thus, I chose to purchase this drive and have cloned my previous 960 Pro data to this new drive. Unfortunately, I cant comment much on the actual performance because my current system is Gen 3 based. I had explicitly purchased this drive intending to upgrade to a 7950x3D AM5-based platform when my Tax-Return comes back at the start of 23. Im pretty happy with the sale price I could get this drive. It will perform significantly better than my old drive and on par with most of the top-tier Gen 4 drives. Time will tell if there are any longer-term problems, but Im doubtful that this drive will present any issues.

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.

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)

One of the fastest pcie 4.0 m.2s on the market. Very happy with it.

Have had no issues the read/write speed is as advertised which is great to see as companies these days are shady at best

This thing is so fast and has so much space. I bought it to make sure I could have a bunch of games installed at the same time and still get great speeds. Never going back to just an SSD for my main HDD again.

Excellent drive for a great price

Correction to previous review 12/18 The correction is the speed issues seems to be with my laptop, I tried multiple PCEI 4 SSD and they were all getting a big below the Hynix, therefore since it is reaching speeds better than the rest of SSD I have upgraded the stars to 4 since it runs super cool and price wise it is better than the competition. Hynix just needs to update it stuff of the software side to make this the best product on the market. The pricing of the product is great however it didnt reach the speeds as advertised, now I understand that the speeds are all synthetic benchmarks but still it wasnt even close (my read was 3600 and 3500 for the writes). Another issue I had was with the software, first its a pain to download (speeds were horrible) and the software it self once downloaded seems very half baked. For instance the software update button lets you update the ssd but you have to download the update and than use the software to open/update it. Its not very intuitive. Returning to try a different ssd.

Used this to upgrade my PS5 storage. This was a super easy install that only took about 10 to 15 minutes. Im very happy with it!

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…