SK hynix: Availability of Platinum P41 PCIe Gen4 NVMe Up to 2TB M.2 SSD

SK hynix Inc. announced availability of the Platinum P41 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD.

It represents the company’s retail lineup geared towards gamers and content creators looking to turbo-boost PC performance.

Launched as the firm’s first PCIe 4.0 SSD built with 176-layer NAND flash memory, it is available for purchase on Amazon in USA in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities.

Designed to excel among PCIe 4.0 SSDs, the Platinum P41 offers sequential read speeds up to 7,000MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 6,500MB/s with a endurance rating of up to 1,200TBW. It also provides further assurance of reliability with a firm’s in-house ‘Aries’ controller, which in itself contributes to the superior R/W speeds.

“We are delighted to introduce the Platinum P41, the first of our Platinum series of SSDs to drive the strongest PCIe Gen4 bandwidth experience for computing needs. P41 also inherits the power efficiency and stability of our existing lineup, keeping with SK hynix’s rich history of delivering excellent solutions for consumer electronics,” said Dae Jung Cho, head, SSD marketing.

Additionally, the Platinum P41 is capable of up to 1,400,000 IO/s in random reads and up to 1,300,000 IO/s in random writes, the throughput on the PCIe 4.0 interface. It undergoes 1,000 hours of high-temperature operating life (HTOL) testing to ensure reliability, where it has achieved 1.5 million/hours MTBF.

The Platinum P41 comes with a 5-year warranty.