Wednesday, March 20th 2024
SK hynix Platinum P51 14 GB/s PCIe Gen 5 SSD Revealed
SK hynix press release about its upcoming PCB01 PCIe 5.0 SSD was a bit light on details and Anandtech got a closer look at the upcoming drive at GTC 2024. Not entirely unsurprising, the drive will be called the Platinum P51 rather than the PCB01, which is a continuation of the branding SK hynix is using for its current range of SSDs. As we already know, it'll feature a custom SK hynix controller and no further data was revealed to Anandtech, but the publication did manage to get some more details with regards to the NAND flash used.
The Platinum P51 is SK hynix first consumer SSD with its new-ish 238-layer 4D NAND flash based on the company's PUC (peri. under cell) technology, which places the peripheral circuits under the cell array. The official performance figures of the Platinum P51 appears to be somewhat lower than the press release from earlier today stated, with sequential read speeds of up to 13.5 GB/s and sequential write speeds of 11.5 GB/s. SK hynix will apparently release the drive in the typical SSD sizes of 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB. It'll be interesting how SK hynix in-house controller will compare to the second generation of Phison E26 based drives paired with Micron B58R NAND flash once it becomes available later this year.
Source:
Anandtech
The Platinum P51 is SK hynix first consumer SSD with its new-ish 238-layer 4D NAND flash based on the company's PUC (peri. under cell) technology, which places the peripheral circuits under the cell array. The official performance figures of the Platinum P51 appears to be somewhat lower than the press release from earlier today stated, with sequential read speeds of up to 13.5 GB/s and sequential write speeds of 11.5 GB/s. SK hynix will apparently release the drive in the typical SSD sizes of 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB. It'll be interesting how SK hynix in-house controller will compare to the second generation of Phison E26 based drives paired with Micron B58R NAND flash once it becomes available later this year.
11 Comments on SK hynix Platinum P51 14 GB/s PCIe Gen 5 SSD Revealed
Like notaburner said, you don't need Gen5 for games. I'm running Guild Wars 2 world vs. world raids (80 vs. 80 vs. 80 matchups) from a Gen3 NVME drive sitting on a USB connection with no issues.
Seems like cpu/board vendors have brought gen 5 to consumer platforms just to tick a marketing box. If they were truly necessary/in demand, it wouldn't have taken years after the launch of compatible platforms for the drive manufacturers to finally start producing the drives.
Boom it's full.
Have a 4tb sn850x as my main game drive and that's about 1/2 full despite my habit of uninstalling games once I'm through with them. Though that approach probably isn't great for people with data caps/limited internet speeds. Also haven't noticed any increase in performance coming from a fairly typical gen 3 drive (just ran out of spare m.2 slots and drive space so needed to upgrade).