SK Hynix Gold P31 NVMe SSD: More Hyjinx from Hynix?

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[@jas9450]

I can listen to Wendell talk all day, always dropping knowledge with side of his humor :D

[@alexstan9555]

This is the only channel that i stay through the ads. Mostly because it gives me time to process what Wendell is talking about :))

[@deadlock_]

Small correction; I was confused when you said it's a QLC SSD as I was certain it's TLC. After some quick research I found it is in fact TLC but it uses SK Hynix's new "4D NAND" which is basically a fancy name for their new flash which stacks the NAND cells over the periphery circuitry, thus making room for more storage.

[@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart]

Which is even more confusing because Micron/Intel have already been doing that and just call it 3D NAND lol

[@Level1Techs]

Technically correct! The best kind of correct! My bad.

[@TommyThousandFaces]

I immediatly scrolled to the comments as soon as I heard it's a QLC drive and saw 750TBW in the specsheet on screen.

[@zoomzabba452]

@@Level1Techs We'll hire you back at severely reduced pay.

[@francisphillipeck4272]

They say "don't compare it to Corsair or Adata" Compares it ONLY to Corsair and Adata lol love it

[@air-iq]

Got the 500GB version of this but it's really solid got it for $47. It's found a home in my external m.2 enclosure I use as one of my backups for more important personal files and projects.

[@vicviper319]

I'm so happy Level1 continues to be a pillar of review integrity along with Gamer's Nexus!

[@jetpil0t]

I love dis guy using an SLI finger cover as an SSD hold down :D Tooless installation tips from Level1, take note Asrock for your next 1500 dollar motherboard.

[@LurkerPatrol5]

8:25 "There are better drives at a better price in the market". Can you please say which ones are better than this at a better price rather than being vague?

[@Liquid_Mike]

Technically he did list them off... Because there are none

[@MarkRose1337]

Seems like a nice SSD, especially in the laptop and power efficiency niche. I don't know why they were afraid of an honest review of a good product like that.

[@misterimpossible6118]

Just popped a 1TB P31 in my 2020 LG Gram. The LG Gram is very thin and I wanted to minimise heat generation from an additional SSD so chose the P31 for the low power consumption. It runs 3 or 4 deg C than the one installed by LG. The only downside of the P31 is that it disables battery charging under Windows 10. This issue has been noted by other LG Gram owners. The only way to charge the Gram with a P31 installed is to exit Windows 10 by completely shutting it down. If you run it on battery you will get no warning that it has run out of power as the P31 also stops all communication of the battery status.

[@davidgunther8428]

Interesting, a bit different take on it from Anandtech where they absolutely loved it. Heard of any innovations for NVMe in how they handle drives or such related to the innovations with Sony or MS direct storage? One I heard of was zoned storage, but that's the only new thing.

[@BlackhatXII]

"Better drives at better price in the market" DO TELL, because I can't find a 1TB nvme drive that can do 3500 MB/s read and 3200 MB/s at a lesser price than the SK Hynix Gold P31...Thanks

[@Vroomanite]

I've spent far too much time trying to get real world performance data on SSDs and find it all really frustrating. People like me that don't have productivity use cases but still want real world data to make an intelligent buying decision are kind of just given the advice to "buy a 980 Pro bruh". Differences in benchmarking load times for games, boot time in windows, steam game verification times, 7z/WinRAR decompression are inconsistent from one review to the next even on the same website let alone from one reviewer to the next. Even transfer speeds for files of various sizes in a realistic copy paste scenario are difficult to figure out with other people's benchmarks. You listen to this review and it's really luke warm, and you look at other reviews and the p31 gold looks like a beast. I have no idea what to believe.

[@WeMakeVideosCA]

I got the 1 tb p31 for $107 this holiday and had a spare amazon gift card to use. Seeing that the samsung 860 evo 1tb nvme lowest was like $94-97. I decided the extra $10 is worth it

[@aboyaser5608]

what would you recommend for desktop use around the $110-$140 price range instead of this one?

[@JohnWilliams-gy5yc]

10900K : I'm ma babie girl 🎶 3600X : Update your playlist, bruh.

[@KitsuneFloof]

I got this because for the last 2 years, my OS and boot were on a SATA 2.5" which has been running at less than the 50th percentile leading to me believing it was corrupted or damaged. I'm happy to finally have an M.2 SSD (1TB as opposed to 250GB)

[@QuickQuips]

Guess I'll get an adata again. The xpg 8200 I now use for work VMs has been rock solid

[@Macabre215]

You have to be careful with those Adata drives. They switched to a worse controller and nand flash with the newest revisions and didn't change the product name. You have no idea which drive you're getting.

[@billlodhia5640]

Oh man that oldskool Batman effect killed me xD

[@b2bb]

"Quickly Robin, to the Aqua!" *LMAO*

[@samgray49]

I have a SK Hynix P31 NVME 500gb drive I originally used it in my desktop until I outgrew it and dropped it in my new laptop, it's a solid drive and for the price it is really amazing. Also I do like that it's biodegradable.

[@alexanderdaum8053]

So I'm a bit confused right now. You say the drive uses QLC NAND, but according to Anandtech, it's TLC. Also you got the layers wrong, it's 128, not 144

[@More_Row]

That is confusing.

[@nocturnal0072]

It's sk's special sauce. Not the run of the mill.

[@ResistanceLion]

The most important is consistent performance, so well enough for me

[@CapComa]

Oh man... That dirt design on your shirt is... genious. Gotta find some of those types of shirt. Perfect for pigs like me

[@thelongslowgoodbye]

I wonder if Wendell will do a review of the Kingston A2000 SSD? I've read reviews of it on other sites and it seems to be an inexpensive high performance SSD.

[@paulthebeardedonedowning6820]

decent glad we've got you here to review this shit not many folks do drives cheers WEnds

[@billcarson1966]

Excellent and fair review. Thank you.

[@itsdeonlol]

That Aqua board is a BEAST!

[@AttfDiggs]

Thanks man! Just got a 2TB Adata, looks as if I chose well!

[@joejane9977]

thank you for spending real cash on this as a review were the reviewer is compromised helps no one. but knowing sk hynix is willing to corrupt the reviewer is nice too know. glad they did not succeed

[@colingordon0986]

Just order Minispouro hub and this SSD 1 tb for my iMac 24! Excited to set it up. As 256 ssd just dosent cut it lol

[@ElfegoTrujillo]

Coming from a sata ssd this thing is amazing. The way you talk about it makes it sound like it's only good for laptops and not desktops. Which from my view is not true.

[@REAL-UNKNOWN-SHINOBI]

I tried this 2 years ago with their regular SSD, two weeks later it crapped out in spectacular fashion. But that was unfortunately due to a USB expansion card that pulled just a little bit too much power through a power splitter that caused the SSD to fry itself. This time I am using an m.2 NVME SSD instead, when I do a full computer rebuild.

[@akachrisc1519]

whats better a sk hynix or a 960 evo in pure speed and performance

[@Alexandra-Rex]

I had to leftarrow to make sure I heard the date I thought I heard.

[@rcvideos4k803]

I didn't know Ghost Aydan's dad made tech reviews.... Nice 👍

[@Liquid_Mike]

Maybe this dude is salty over their company practices, but this M.2 is one of the best gen 3's you can buy, for one of the lowest prices. If you're considering it, just buy it.

[@stevemiller9356]

I got the 1TB version of this SSD on sale for $80 via Amazon. I would not recommend paying the normal price for this SSD. Get the Samsung 980 Pro instead

[@johnconnor2572]

Nailed the title this time lol

[@johnconnor2572]

Thanks for the love Wendel, Ryan & Christa. Didn't mean to bust your marbles too hard the first time. Keep being awesome!

[@smoogles]

@8:06 Wendell casts a spell

[@dciking]

What I got from this video: it might be good for a PS5 storage, if the price comes down a little. But [The Company] should not try to direct or script your videos.

[@adrianwheeler1936]

TLC nand flash, not QLC.

[@ResistanceLion]

What about Team Group? They have more TBW on spreadsheet

[@qwewer6]

Which m.2 ssd(s?) would you recommend in the same price range as this SK Hynix?

[@alberte6109]

I could get the 1TB or the 2TB model for the same price of a Solidigm P41 plus, haven't found a direct comparison, so I can't quite decide. Does anyone have both drives?

[@pheelix-]

Amazon has Samsung 860 Evo, 970 Evo and Evo Plus on sale atm for 40%-80% off. M.2 Nvme 970 500Gb $60 970 1Tb $130 970 plus 500Gb $80 970 plus 1TB $150 < Best Deal normally $250 2.5 SSD 860 Evo 1Tb $100

[@Jrambo51]

I know your busy Wendell but I just wanted to ask, as im looking to upgrade to my m.2 and was looking at the ADATA and also the ADDLINK S70. I run linux and wanted your advice on a new m.2 . Thanks for any advice you could give. Takecare.

[@remotepinecone]

I have searched the internet and I cannot find any other current source who is writing 250+ TB to SSDs to test their true endurance. You're the only person I've seen do this test, and then you compare it to only 2 drives and give no details using words like "not great" "okay" does not instill confidence. performance degradation is goddamn important and you're just teasing us with vague details. Storagereview doesn't even do it. Please compare with more drives or don't do it at all. compare them after trying to kill them with hundreds of terabytes The last evaluation on this subject was done 5 years ago. things have changed a lot since then haven't they? I don't know because no one's doing it.

[@acoye42]

Quickly to the Aqua 🤣

[@Ming-Chan]

Right now for Black Friday 2020, this drive is going for $114.74 on Amazon, cheaper than the Adata SX8200 Pro which is discounted to $119.99. It's definitely a new challenger against the SX8200 Pro for cheapest high end pcie 3.0 ssd. I'd really want to pick one of these up if I didn't have 2 SX8200 Pros already. If you're weighing between the two, I had one of my SX 8200s die after 8 months and RMA wasn't pleasant, Adata sent me a SX8100 in return and I had to pay shipping to send it back.

[@digitaltactics9234]

SX8200 Pro change there controller to slower one as a secret at lest what i saw people on amazon saying.

[@Ming-Chan]

@@digitaltactics9234 I wouldn't be surprised if Adata came up with 2 new versions since my original comment at this point now. I could tell that the drive I bought in July 2019 and then December 2019 were different but still had decent performance close to the L1T review video. Then, I ordered another one late 2020 that felt like it was the 3rd gen of the drive with significant performance decrease out of the box. Would advise to avoid Adata right now.

[@digitaltactics9234]

@@Ming-Chan WD_Black SN850 not detected by BIOS on bootup from power-off problems so many are having. On that drive & on the 980 pro losing speed after tow months. Seems like we are all beta testers on the new 4.0 drives & still many of the 3.0 drives. Was looking at this Hynix drive that wendel is reviewing but seems like it might ware out like many of the TLC drives but on tweaktown it looks great in specs but they do not test drives like he dose as in how long before they degrade. Have older system that has a old MLC pro 840 drive health has not moved. Makes me think that my choice of a 970 pro MLC drive might be worth the money indeed. To avoid all the headaches on the 4.0 TLC QLC drives seems to have & some of the 3.0 drives have too ha. Feels weird to want the 3.0 drive more than the new tech is so unstable. The 970 pro dose not run hot & dose not slow down like all theses new drives coping or installing files. Maybe that is why so many say all you really need is a regular ssd. But when you have a 3950x on the shelf from not working since the pandemic hits & you finally get to build your new system you want it to just be stable. Long rant but i am sure you get it. Sucks you can't even get all the fact's on these drives.

[@thomas1699]

I did not hear you say: Does this drive have DRAM?

[@robertnees9781]

$63.74 USD on Amazon via Black Friday + instant coupon deal going on right now for the 500GB version..... not a bad deal, not a great deal...

[@bg11211]

Damn his aqua sounds pretty badass wonder what video he has

[@llortaton2834]

Is it a 144 layers with 4 bits per cell or 128 layers 4 bits per cell? Intel is developing a 144 layer solution Samsung a 160 layer solution

[@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart]

It's TLC, not QLC

[@jlford30]

Micron has 176 layer

[@jessiejames1681]

Holy shit I see the SSD god, NewMaxx! Also this SSD is $115 on Amazon right now.

[@barmymagician2970]

so how is this compared to your enmotus fuzedrive ssd(now its released)?

[@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart]

Do you have any idea when an NVME 2.0 drive with Zoned Namespaces is coming out?

[@thega.bo.n3423]

Hey :-) so what would be your pick for a 1tb nvme for a mid/high spec gaming PC?

[@TosicTech]

i recommend the Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD Extreme Performance Solid State Drive (SB-ROCKET-NVMe4-1TB)

[@gresss]

Consider the Samsung 980 Pro

[@thega.bo.n3423]

@@gresss Yeah i was thinking about that one, but it seems to provide zero real life advantage compared to for example Corsair P5 which costs like half

[@scruffy3121]

Would love to get a low power consumption m.2 for my new laptop. Any alternatives to sk hynix (they are extremely expensive and hard to get in my region)

[@grifdenton5224]

The ones Im seeing on Amazon say "128 Layer".

[@jeffreyweinberg878]

What were the CrystalDiskMark results?

[@paul6034]

¿por que es bueno para portatiles y no para escritorio?

[@SuixdeCity]

is it better than the Samsung 970 evo plus because I’m getting a gaming laptop and i need Storage

[@mattfm101]

If your gaming laptop is going to be plugged in most of the time get the Samsung

[@blu6]

Tf he say in the beginning ? March 1 90 second?

[@fabronator2342]

Hey man, this ssd have DRAM cache?

[@thomas1699]

That is faint praise if you are trying to impress me.

[@Quarky_]

I thought I watched this quite a few months ago, but then today it showed up on my feed and the upload date says Nov 23, 2020! I'm confused O_o

[@zebilaweed]

He says 'March 192 of 2020' in the video, right in the first moments. Which makes...? September 12th?

[@Jayeeyee]

Did I just hear him say March 192nd? What?

[@antagorithm]

I think your calendar is broken; my calendar says it's March 269th.

[@danshannon1001]

whaooooo!!!

[@2001BornAgain]

What do you mean by "controller?"

[@Liquid_Mike]

There is a chip at the bottom of the board (near the contacts) that controls the incoming and outgoing information of the drive

[@racistpixel1017]

Paper is not good, for paper u cut trees,better use hemp, 4 months of hemp produce as mutch paper as 100 years of trees

[@jlford30]

Micron has 176 layer....

[@c.m.7692]

Would this be the good ssd for the ps5? Less heat less watts? Mhhh

[@digitaltactics9234]

ps5 will be pcie 4.0 drives & only a select few. They say maybe Samsung 980 pro & the WD sn850 & those are pricey but have the speed ps5 requires.

[@iamanan5634]

Kinda early hey

[@斯巴达是也]

Where do I sell the case on the table

[@josephdtarango]

It looks like SK Hynix needs to integrate the latest acquired technology from Intel enterprise SSD division.

[@miguelmelenciano765]

Ps5??,,?

[@kodocha42]

I have a SK hynix Gold P31 500GB, and after 1 month, it's performance dropped to

[@REAL-UNKNOWN-SHINOBI]

Lucky, I had one it failed after 2 weeks

[@atomsapple]

SK Hynix shady dealings. I wonder how many reviewers you can spot by no performance comparisons?

[@Brahma-Astra]

can u open yur mouth a bit while speaking please.......50% of the words don't come out of yur mouth

[@GORATPHUQ]

oh wow it looks like he lost some weight. Lucky