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

This NVMe changed my life. I found a wife, my dog that ran away came back to me, and I got promoted twice in the same work day! Now Im living the good life, thanks to this NVMe! To be serious for a moment: Speeds run as advertised; no issues or problems. Motherboard recognized it easily (MSI MPG z690) on Win11. Would definitely recommend this, especially if you want a good NVMe, wife, returned dog and work promotions! :D

Ultra fast no problems with installation Great product.

This product will be worth the buy for a med-level gaming laptop. I understand some folks will say something different. I like it.

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.

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!

The P41 NVMe ssd is performing faster than MFG states. Running an Intel 12700k, Gigabyte Gaming X, 64GB ram. No issues so far. CrystalDiskMark image provided, first test, installed as a secondary drive. Also an FYI: other reviews removing a star for no M.2 screw provided. SSD mfgs dont provide the screw. Its the motherboard mfgs that provide it. Ive bought from Samsung, Kingston, Sabrent, Crucial and smaller name brands and none of them have provided me with the screw. Check your machine before ordering, its up to you to buy one if its not on the motherboard already.

This SSD works great for your ps5 expansion slot and it’s very easy to install. Just make sure to buy a heat sink to combine them before you do. Another thing, for anyone who uses an external hard drive, do yourself a favor and unplug your external hdd after moving all your games because you will run into an issue where it will show that you’re using GBs on your internal ps5 SSD even though your not, and that will clear everything up.

One thing to note is that a screw is NOT included for installation. If you purchase this as storage expansion for a laptop, you will likely need to purchase the M2x2 screw separately (if it wasnt included). In my case, I have a Dell Precision 5550 which did not come with a second storage card already installed. When I opened it up to put this new card in, I discovered that not only does Dell NOT provide a screw to mount the card, but the thermal bracket is also not included. So, I had to purchase the thermal bracket separately as well. Luckily, there are a couple of options for those here on Amazon that also include the required screw. All that was learned through trial because Dell does not provide that information. Hopefully this helps anyone else looking to to expand their storage in a Dell laptop. Both Dell and/or SK Hynix could have provided the cheap screw with their products, but chose not to. Neither was very helpful in figuring this out.

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.

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....