SK HYNIX Platinum P51 NVME SSD Review

I am very grateful for what Phison has been achieved in the last few years. The controller’s technology was amazing, providing huge results for people from the professional industry. But this does not mean that I want his controllers to be the only thing I review for the next five years.

This is the thing: the challenge causes evolution. Desperation causes innovation. And in this industry, when companies do not have competition, technological jumps tend to a bit narrowing. At least until someone appears and mastering Applacart again. Just ask Intel. This hunt, this competition, to be the best dog, is exactly what this disk represents. Sticking him to a man and saying: No, Lord, Phison, we will not operate your controller.

Ok, too emotional motivational quotes about the benefits of competition; This is Platinum P51 SK Hynix, its first completely internal SSD PCIe 5.0, and there is a lot to hide.

It does not look too unusual on the surface. You get this ordinary M.2 2280, a one -sided form of the form and more or less similar specifications of the highest class to what we have seen that other flagship products produce on this arena. SK has its sequences set at around 14,700 Mb/s on reading and 13,400 Mb/s on the record, and the capacity capacity assessment of 600 TBW capacity with a regular 5-year warranty supporting everything. The availability of capacity is quite scarce, with options only 1 and 2 TB, and the disk that I have here in the review (2 TB) starts from 270 USD in the USA and 310 GBP in Great Britain, which gives us a nice average price of approximately 0.14 USD for GB and 0.16 GBP, respectively.

The real intrigue surrounding this miniature SSD is the equipment in its heart. Both the controller and the flash are directly produced by SK Hynix, and we have very little information about them. I can tell you that the controller supports LPDDR4 as a standard and it must be an octa -channel project that is to maximally say that the theoretical bandwidth to introduce it on a par with such as T705 and other high -class 5.0 SSD.

As for NAND SK, only internally, using 238-layer 3D TLC to set up, and even more detailed information on power requirements is scarce, at least except what we can deduce from tests. Although it should be roughly on a par with 276-layer TLC Micron. Despite this, it gives us a broader NAND variety and adds another PCIe 5.0 controller to the market, undoubtedly miring the Phison Pen and his E26 controller.

So the good news is that in the entire combination of equipment it is really good for P51. The performance is generally very solid, consistent even compared to T705 and other such drives. However, this is not perfect and although it certainly has the potential to question our best SSD list, it is not yet.

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Let me explain, this is not the killer of WD SN8100. This drive takes first place and for a reason. No, it’s not, but if SK is wise in this and bites a ball, it can be a transition for people looking for an accessible alternative, which still provides estimated performance. And this is a kicker – everything is for money.

Before we get there, let’s talk about numbers. For the first time 5.0, with a completely recent controller and on request NAND, P51 provides some solid results. Sequential reading at the top of 14,488 Mb/SW Crystaldiskmark and 13 121 Mb/s on the record. Random 4K also has its own with a pure result of 95 Mb/SW reading and 310 Mb/SW record. This reading speed is in particular impressive and the clock is on the second fastest drive, which I have tested so far (the first is insurmountable SN8100).

Similarly, the 3DMark benchmark also provides a robust trip and although it does not fully beat like the T705, it makes it a mess of the latest 9100 Pro Samsung, as it happens, he was abandoned by a slightly average result of access time.

Perhaps, which is not a surprise, considering these numbers and this robust random 4K reading 4K reading, final fantasy’s shadowbringers benchmark in a respectable 6,876 second in all three scenes, putting it only slightly, you guessed, SN8100.

And then we reach the temperature and oh, boy, whether it is warm, seriously warm. He supplemented the charts at 85 degrees Celsius. The only drive that I have hotter than this is the original T700 Crucial, with my own integrated heat. Considering that this matter is under the motherboard, it is seriously roasted, and SK also has no heat variant of this drive, so if you intend to buy it, make sure you have the heat of the motherboard that can cope with it; Otherwise, you can take care of the nasty time under ponderous sequential loads.

So. Decent versatile performance, but not great; Quick charging times, but not the fastest; good access time, but not the fastest; It is warm and in terms of prices, it is in a sense in which you can expect. Why, then, high hopes? Because this is the price of the premiere and consistent premiere prices usually fall quite quickly. Considering that SK produces both the controller and NAND on his own, there is no engagement of the broker here. If someone is able to lower the driving price, it should be SK.

If he is wise, he takes a look at the market, see where this drive sits, and reactively reduced this RRP by 20 or 30 USD. This is all that you need and suddenly P51 ceases to be a fairly average SSD and instead becomes an extremely competitive, high -performance storage solution, which is much cheaper than any competition. For now, however, this is another SSD.

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