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

Blazing fast drive. I added a thin copper heatsink since it is in a laptop. Easy to install [after I got the laptop opened]. I had ordered 2. Both registered and worked great!... except one would skip every few minutes while playing a few different games installed on it. The other had no issues with those same games. I returned the one with the game skipping.

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!

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.

Installed in a ps5 and it’s working good so far. Just make sure to get heat sink and thermal pads for it. Will update review if anything happens.

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

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.

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.

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

If its only 1.8TB of usable storage, it shouldnt be sold as a 2TB drive. Companies have been doing this for ages, it still is wrong in my opinion. Another frustrating thing about this drive (and several competitors, Sabrent did include it though) is a complete lack of mounting hardware. A tiny screw and a simple motherboard insert would cost them 10 cents to include, if that.. The hole is the same size on almost every motherboard. Ive swapped the insert between ASUS/MSI/EVGA boards without issue. If theyre worried about the size, include a few different sets. Its pretty reasonable to expect some mounting hardware for a product this expensive. Luckily I keep a jar of screws and found a set that fit, something I doubt most people have or do. Another thing is, dont expect anywhere close to 7GB/s in real performance. Moving/writing files from one gen 4 PCI-e nvme to this one, lucky to get around 150MB/s moving smaller files, closer to 250MB/s with large files (in excess of 1GB). & yes thats BYTES and not BITS (1 byte=8 bits, MB=Megabyte and Mb=Megabit) Speed tests are not an accurate representation of real world use drive performance (which is the reason it says Up to 7,000MB/s) Regardless, this is a decent drive and the performance is what Id expect out of a 4th Gen drive. As a network engineer, the advertising is just misleading. When Im working with data center scale environments exceeding the petabyte range, working with NetApp filers weighing 300LB filled with drives, the sales people arent trying to jip you over a few GB. Theyre sold and advertised with the usable storage and speeds....

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!