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

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.

Id used other SK Hynix drives in the past. With my new system, I needed more storage and wanted a newer generation of drive. When this came up, I snapped it up. Installation, well, its a standard M.2 drive. Its got good speed and pretty good capacity for the price (at time of purchase, prices vary.) Some reviews say this runs a bit hot, and it doesnt come with a heatsink - my mainboard has a cover for (multiple) m.2 drives which doubles as one, so not coming with a heatsink was a plus for me. Given my prior experience with SK Hynix drives, I expect this one to last a good while. Compare current pricing, but all else being equal, Id recommend this drive (or most any of theirs) easily.

I had a Samsung evo pro that lasted 3 hours before it failed, Samsung decided it was user error and refused to honor their warranty so I ended up trying these out. Works great, fantastic read/write speeds at a fair price.

I bought this drive after a Samsung 980 Pro went belly up, after barely a year of moderate use. Clue: look up that drive paired with a Google search of bad blocks. If only I knew... This drive rips and tears through anything I throw at it. It does get a little on the warm side, so I bought a heatsink for it. Still gets a little warm, but better than it going bare-backed. The screenshots were benching right after booting the PC up and the 45c temp was right after running the benchmark. The SK hynix Drive Manager software is decent. Allows for firmware updates and whatnot. Provides many details about the drive like Doorbell Buffer Config command support and temps. The temps have values, thresholds and worst but seems a little odd the way its laid out. Scales go from right to left, meh. First world problems I guess. Get the drive. You wont be disappointed. Hopefully it will last longer than a year.

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.

Install was easy on z790 e gaming stix motherboard. Dont need a heatsink with that motherboard as it comes with its own cooling solution. Make sure to read your motherboard guide on adding ssds as some reccomeded to add an extra thermal pad.

Purchased this to expand my PS5 storage, this brand specifically is entirely underrated while delivering top tier performance. Through my research I found this company likes to underrepresent their products a hair (their performance is BETTER than advertised), found that out directly when installing the drive, the read performance was higher than advertised and competes with Western Digital and Samsung, further research found this drive in most performance metrics is one of best performing drives period. Cost to performance is fantastic, couldnt be happier with this purchase and would purchase again or encourage anyone and everyone to purchase this drive over WD or Samsung (with an Elecgear heatsink for PS5 users)

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.

This seems to perform very well however it get H-O-T! I ended up buying substantial heatsink to remedy that. I wish that I couldve just bought a configuration that came with the heatsink.

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.