One of my favorite Gen4 solid state drive was the SK hynix Platinum P41, it had great performance and no thermal throttling issues. Enter the new Platinum P51, SK hynix’s first consumer-based Gen5 (PCI-Express 5.0) solid state drive. Just like the P41, everything on this drive is made by SK hynix. So you are going to have the SK hynix Alistar Gen5 8-channel NVMe controller teamed with SK hynix 238-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory, as well as a SK hynix DRAM cache chip. With this combination the drive offers sequential read and write speeds of 14700 MB/s and 13400 MB/s respectively. Is this the Gen5 drive you need for your new build? Read on as we take a look!
Special thanks to SK hynix for providing us with the Platinum P51 Gen5 Solid State Drive to review.
Features of the SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 Solid State Drive
– Limitless performance – Read speeds of up to 14,700 MB/s and write speeds of up to 13,400 MB/s with 238-layer 3D TLC NAND technology from SK hynix
– Intelligent Energy Efficiency – Extremely high power with only 10W power consumption, for minimal heat and maximum stability
– Designed for the discerning – Perfect for creatives, developers and power users who demand uncompromising speed and precision
– A masterpiece of in-house innovation – Powered by SK hynix’s Alistar Gen5 controller, specially designed for AI workloads and future-oriented computing
– Reliability that convinces – 5 year warranty and 2 million hours MTBF for lasting safety and confidence
Packaging of the SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 Solid State Drive
The Platinum P51 comes in your pretty standard retail box. On the front it does let us know the capacity, which is 2TB. SK hynix will also offer this drive in a 1TB version. Flipping over to the back we have some information on the drive itself.
Getting everything out of the box we find the drive itself as well as a user’s guide.
