SK hynix Platinum P41 500GB PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 2280 for Gaming, Up to 7,000MB/S, Compact M.2 SSD Form Factor SSD - Internal Solid State Drive with 176-Layer NAND Flash

I have a very old machine, but this was the best replacement I could find from reviews and price. I would have opted for a Samsung drive, but even the Gen4 stuff would not come down in price. I was worried about getting the drive mirrored and being bootable, but Disk Genius took care of that. So far, very happy.

Exactly what is advertised, if you need a nice SSD this will do for cheaper than competitors. I have my 2TB version in an enclosure so that I can swap it between machines. It never overheats and I use it for transferring data between computers and for playing Steam games. Make sure you get a nice enclosure with a heat sink if you are using it externally since drives and data are important to protect. I have the ROG Arion and it works flawlessly with this drive I don’t notice any difference in speed compared to my internal SSD, which is a good thing.

Installed the SK Hynix platinum P41 on an Asrock AM5 motherboard. Getting 6000 MBytes/Sec read and write, and its running cool too. Great speed for the price!

Everything checks out, I have not had a single issue with this drive since purchase, it boots quickly (could be faster if not for windows 11 crud). Now I do have a gripe, when I bought this it was $207 in 2022 now its currently at $143. I suggest getting for this price before tariffs or something else causes the price to sky rocket.Now the read and write speeds are good and snappy when gaming, which I purchased it for and the transfer speeds are as advertised or within reasonable parameters.

Works well as discribed

Super fast really good and cheap buy. Used this to build my niece's PC and it's her main drive. she loves it

gen4 nvme, this thing is very fast, honestly faster than I need but its fast. I tested it and my results confirmed advertised speeds so I'm very pleased with that. I put this in my main gaming rig, it doesn't generate a ton of heat that I can tell. My system remains very cool so I doubt this guy gets particularly hot. I'm not doing anything that would stress it out other than when I benchmarked it. When I built my system, I popped it in, the system found it, we installed an OS on it so perfectly compatible with my systems bios. Gaming performance like I said I can't complain. I'm not doing anything that would really stress this guy out as its crazy fast. It fit perfectly in the m.2 slot, and it's been perfectly reliable for the last 3months since I built it. I got this at the recommendation of a buddy of mine who builds pc's all the time.

I have the 2TB Platinum. Nice RAM with lightning fast read/write speeds. Easy to install and holds a TON of data at 2TB. However, it regularly runs from 6 to10 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1TB Crucial it is paired with. A heatsink I bought for it didnt make any difference...at all. I left the label on it as many manufacturers use this as its own form of cheap heat sink. Otherwise, a great SSD.