News SK hynix's in-house designed PCIe 5.0 SSD breaks cover — Platinum P51 targets top-notch speed and lower idle power

[Admin]

SK hynix showed off its upcoming PCIe 5.0 Platinum P51 SSD at GTC 2024, which should go on sale later this year. It's a fully in-house design for the NAND and controller, which makes it different from every other Gen5 SSD currently available.

SK hynix's in-house designed PCIe 5.0 SSD breaks cover — Platinum P51 targets top-notch speed and lower idle power : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

I have no real interest in pcie gen 5 drives atm because they have thermal issues & most solutions don't work well( or at all) if you have a big ole gpu in ur system.

 

[gggplaya]

I have no real interest in pcie gen 5 drives atm because they have thermal issues & most solutions don't work well( or at all) if you have a big ole gpu in ur system.

Biggest reason is what games or programs can make use of that speed? Not many if at all. Will those that do shave any significant time off the loading or copy times?

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Biggest reason is what games or programs can make use of that speed? Not many if at all. Will those that do shave any significant time off the loading or copy times?

Data centers, servers, and HPCs can, as well as game consoles as they're designed explicitly for it, but as for typical desktops you're not going to notice a difference between a P31 Gold (PCIe 3) and P51 Platinum (PCIe 5) outside of storage benchmarks.

 

[theyh8me]

I have no real interest in pcie gen 5 drives atm because they have thermal issues & most solutions don't work well( or at all) if you have a big ole gpu in ur system.

I have not found this to be the case. I have never seen mine exceed 54c with just the motherboard heatsink, and it lives right beside a 4080. Gaming, phot/video editing, image backups etc. don't even phase it. Synthetic benchmarks generate temps that are artificially scary, no one redlines everything all the time.

 

[thestryker]

PCIe 5.0 drives aren't an improvement in random IO over their PCIe 4.0 counterparts or I might be interested. High end PCIe 4.0 drives were a pretty big improvement over their PCIe 3.0 counterparts here (random write saw the biggest improvement) which gave them universal value whether utilizing the sequential or not.

I've been a fan of the SK Hynix drives since they hit the retail space (and their Solidigm brethren) so it'll be interesting to see how the performance shakes out here. I doubt there will be any big bump outside of sequential, but I'd be happy to be wrong.

 

[das_stig]

Fast PCIe 5 is nice but the vast majority of normal users aren't that bothered, we want cheap (as in HDD prices or better), large capacity and decent speeds. Now a manufacturer that understand this, take my money !!