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

Excellent drive for a great price

Love the space and speed

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!

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.

Just built a watercooled MSI Carbon black MB EKWB not sure why the write speed and random read write is so much lower.

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.

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

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

Upgraded my 1TB SSD to 2TB. Process was simple, using SK Hynix cloning software. Device runs at the advertised speeds (checked with ATTO, Black Magic, et al). In two+ months so far, no issues. A no-brainer purchase.

I got two of these and raided them together Ive been pretty happy with the performance.