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

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.

Drive performs beyond expectations! Amazingly fast and reliable! Windows 10 Pro boots from off to login in 6-7 seconds. I rated 4 stars and not 5 because the make and model of the drive cant be detected by some performance testing software, which gives it a 0 score. Weird. But 100%recommend!

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.

Great boot drive for my Thinkpad P50 Laptop. Made a noticeable difference in my startup and loading time. Make sure you get a heat sink or a caddy with heat sink foam built in. It will keep your new drive cooler so that it does not start slowing itself down. I purchased this Platinum 1Tb because I was so pleased with the Gold Version 500Gb. Thanks and keep making a great product.

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!

Its a PCIe 4.0 drive from a tech-dominant company... not shocking to see high speeds from this product. But, I do noticed a few things that are important to professional usage: > The ability to translate regular files into thumbnails (images) is incredible - almost instantaneous. Normally, I dont see an instant translation on the first use - very important for CAD and CAE files that take advantage of Windows thumbnail viewing. > Load time for CAD (i.e., Solidworks, Solid Edge) is much more fluent with larger assemblies - which most users dont care about (compared to Samsung 980 pro). If you use mechanical drives at this point - shame on you? > Opening video, music, and photos is a noticeable reward with this SSD (small file cache and multitasking is fabulous) > If you have an extensive movie or music library this drive is premium (small file handling) with crazy speed - helps with file conversions and compression/decompression. > Windows 10 load time has many factors - but this drive shaved 5 seconds from my previous SSD (total = 7 seconds). Yes, Im greedy, bias, and easily spoiled by advanced technology.

Ultra fast no problems with installation Great product.

Im just say it straight its fast and flawless, for the price you get what you pay for also handle heat pretty well so if you got small PC with a lot of heat it can handle it no problems Adding it does not come with screws, dont get mad and knock a star off cause of this, if you are a PC person you know the screws was included in hardware with motherboard so if you have pre built sorry you need to order screws most of the time prebuilt dont come with the hardware

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…

After cloning this drive, works flawlessly as my startup drive.