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SK Hynix launches its first PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSD at CES 2022

SK Hynix, the second largest memory maker in the world, has today announced its latest NVMe PCIe Gen 4.0 SSD – the Platinum P41. The new Platinum P41 offers increased performance over the previous Gold P31 series, offering top-end PCIe 4.0 speeds. 

The new SK Hynix Platinum P41 is the company's first Gen 4.0 SSD, with 176-NAND layers and capacity ranging from 500GB to 2TB.

The SSD uses SK Hynix's own Aries controller, and is capable of up to 7,000 MB/s sequential read speeds and 6,500 MB/s sequential write speeds, as well as random read/write speeds of 1400K and 1300K IOPS. Finally, the SSD will also offer industry-leading endurance, rated for 1200TBW.

The SK Hynix Platinum P41 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs will be available sometime in Q1 2022 and pricing is still to be confirmed.

KitGuru Says: Are you planning on getting a PCIe Gen 4 SSD soon? Will you be keeping an eye out for the new Platinum series from SK Hynix? 

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