techpowerup SK hynix Announces PCI-Express 4.0 Platinum P41 Solid State Drives

[ENTERPRISE]

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SK hynix today unveiled the Platinum P41, the fastest M.2 NVMe SSD under the NAND flash and DRAM manufacturer's own marquee. Built in the M.2-2280 form-factor, the drive is targeted at the DIY PC enthusiast segment, and is the company's first client-segment drive to take advantage of the PCI-Express 4.0 x4 host interface. The drive combines an in-house controller design by the company, codenamed "Aries," with the company's latest 176-layer 3D NAND flash, and a DDR4 DRAM cache.

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[UltraMega]

I don't get why this is news. PCIe 4 SSDs are already common. Am I missing something? 

[ENTERPRISE]

Not ground-breaking news, no but hardware news nonetheless I guess.

[schuck6566]

It's specs are beating alot of the posted write times of similar popular drives.WD Black and Samsung 980 Pro for example.  Over a 1000MB/s faster write time supposedly.Have to wait and see what real life actually shows us.