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SK Hynix Platinum P41 SSD: The pursuit of affordable speed

The SK Hynix Platinum P41 was a pleasant surprise. With many upper crust PCIe 4.0–based 2TB NVMe drives still going for $300 plus, the $260 price tag for the P41 had me thinking it would be an overpriced mid-tier SSD. Instead it turned out to be a nicely priced, top-shelf drive with exceptional performance. My bad. Good on ya, SK Hynix!

DESIGN, PRICE, SPECS

As stated, the 2TB Platinum P41 I, one of the ultra-fast PCIe 4.0 drives I tested it against. The other rival, , is another bargain of a top-tier drive and one of our favorites because of it.

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