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Prime Members: 1TB SK hynix Platinum P41 PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 2280 Internal SSD

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SK hynix via Amazon has for Prime Members: 1TB SK hynix Platinum P41 PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Drive for $104.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member GraySquirrel for finding this deal.

About this item:
  • Top-tier performance – Read speeds up to 7,000 MB/s and write speeds of up to 6,500 MB/s with proprietary SK hynix HYPERWRITE cache technology
  • Pioneering power efficiency – next-tier power efficiency that keeps your system running smoother than ever
  • 5-year warranty, superior reliability and stability – Tested and validated through 1,000 hours of HTOL (Stress Test) with MTBF reaching 1.5 million hours, up to 1,200 TBW (TeraBytes Written)
  • Easy installation across multiple devices, pairing with our custom SK hynix edition Macrium cloning software
  • Backwards compatible with PCIe 3.0 system but limited maximum speed of (up to) 3,500 MB/s read and (up to) 3,200 MB/s write.

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  • About this deal:
    • This price is $45 less (30% savings) than the listed retail price.
    • While supplies last.
  • About this product:
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars rating at Amazon based on over 740 customer reviews
  • About this store:
    • Seller SK hynix has a 97% positive rating in the last 12 months with over 3070 lifetime feedback.
    • Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
    • If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
    • You can view Amazon's Return Policy here.
  • Additional Note:
    • Please refer to the Forum Thread for additional discussion regarding this deal.

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SK hynix via Amazon has for Prime Members: 1TB SK hynix Platinum P41 PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Drive for $104.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member GraySquirrel for finding this deal.

About this item:
  • Top-tier performance – Read speeds up to 7,000 MB/s and write speeds of up to 6,500 MB/s with proprietary SK hynix HYPERWRITE cache technology
  • Pioneering power efficiency – next-tier power efficiency that keeps your system running smoother than ever
  • 5-year warranty, superior reliability and stability – Tested and validated through 1,000 hours of HTOL (Stress Test) with MTBF reaching 1.5 million hours, up to 1,200 TBW (TeraBytes Written)
  • Easy installation across multiple devices, pairing with our custom SK hynix edition Macrium cloning software
  • Backwards compatible with PCIe 3.0 system but limited maximum speed of (up to) 3,500 MB/s read and (up to) 3,200 MB/s write.

Editor's Notes

Written by qwikwit | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $45 less (30% savings) than the listed retail price.
    • While supplies last.
  • About this product:
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars rating at Amazon based on over 740 customer reviews
  • About this store:
    • Seller SK hynix has a 97% positive rating in the last 12 months with over 3070 lifetime feedback.
    • Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
    • If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
    • You can view Amazon's Return Policy here.
  • Additional Note:
    • Please refer to the Forum Thread for additional discussion regarding this deal.

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DarnCrazy
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Microsoft stopped trusting SSD hardware encryption a while ago after it discovered some manufactures didn't actually encrypt data as expected or used default keys to unlock all data. I have a SK Hynix P31 and P41 drives and both don't have any issues with Bitlocker.

See relevant article
https://www.howtogeek.com/442114/...-your-ssd/
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Rookies1000
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Not bad. The 2TB version was $160 in BF and $180 now. I think we will see the price go down more.
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zhenz
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I know it's confusing, but SK Hynix P41 and Solidigm P41 Plus are two completely different products...
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Dec 21, 2022 4:35 PM
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savagepaganDec 21, 2022 4:35 PM
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I bought this back in June for $150.
Dec 21, 2022 4:45 PM
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creediddyDec 21, 2022 4:45 PM
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This looks like a good deal
Dec 21, 2022 6:34 PM
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Rookies1000Dec 21, 2022 6:34 PM
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Not bad. The 2TB version was $160 in BF and $180 now. I think we will see the price go down more.
Dec 21, 2022 6:51 PM
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mrmochiDec 21, 2022 6:51 PM
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PSA: This drive DOES NOT support hardware encryption for Bitlocker if that matters to you even though the reviews advertise it as a spec and it advertises "hardware encryption" on the site.

IT DOES NOT.
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DarnCrazyDec 21, 2022 7:27 PM
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank

Quote from mrmochi View quoted comment :
PSA: This drive DOES NOT support hardware encryption for Bitlocker if that matters to you even though the reviews advertise it as a spec and it advertises "hardware encryption" on the site.

IT DOES NOT.
Microsoft stopped trusting SSD hardware encryption a while ago after it discovered some manufactures didn't actually encrypt data as expected or used default keys to unlock all data. I have a SK Hynix P31 and P41 drives and both don't have any issues with Bitlocker.

See relevant article
https://www.howtogeek.com/442114/...-your-ssd/
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Dec 21, 2022 8:02 PM
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WiseScene422Dec 21, 2022 8:02 PM
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Price is NOT $104.99 for everyone, it is listed as $149.99.

Lots of these "deals" listed lately are for prime members only, not for everyone.
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Dec 21, 2022 8:15 PM
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mrmochiDec 21, 2022 8:15 PM
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Quote from DarnCrazy View quoted comment :
Microsoft stopped trusting SSD hardware encryption a while ago after it discovered some manufactures didn't actually encrypt data as expected or used default keys to unlock all data. I have a SK Hynix P31 and P41 drives and both don't have any issues with Bitlocker.

See relevant article
https://www.howtogeek.com/442114/...-your-ssd/ [howtogeek.com]
Thanks for the article. I'm going to read it now.

When you say "both don't have any issues with Bitlocker", are you saying that they have the ability for instant hardware Bitlocker encryption or are you using software Bitlocker encryption?

I'm using Bitlocker on my P41 2TB but I had to resort to encrypting via software and not hardware.

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Dec 21, 2022 8:28 PM
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Rookies1000Dec 21, 2022 8:28 PM
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Quote from WiseScene422 View quoted comment :
Price is NOT $104.99 for everyone, it is listed as $149.99.

Lots of these "deals" listed lately are for prime members only, not for everyone.
Good catch. It's easy to miss that label "Exclusive Prime price" in gray text.
Dec 21, 2022 8:35 PM
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DarnCrazyDec 21, 2022 8:35 PM
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Quote from mrmochi View quoted comment :
Thanks for the article. I'm going to read it now.

When you say "both don't have any issues with Bitlocker", are you saying that they have the ability for instant hardware Bitlocker encryption or are you using software Bitlocker encryption?

I'm using Bitlocker on my P41 2TB but I had to resort to encrypting via software and not hardware.
Using software encryption, I haven't had any perceivable performance problems or limitations. To be fair, I only used software encryption for Bitlocker, even on drives that support hardware based encryption. So the Bitlocker performance factor wasn't something I was actively looking for when it came to hardware level encryption support.
Last edited by DarnCrazy December 21, 2022 at 12:39 PM.
Dec 21, 2022 9:04 PM
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mrmochiDec 21, 2022 9:04 PM
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Quote from DarnCrazy View quoted comment :
Using software encryption, I haven't had any perceivable performance problems or limitations. To be fair, I only used software encryption for Bitlocker, even on drives that support hardware based encryption. So the Bitlocker performance factor wasn't something I was actively looking for when it came to hardware level encryption support.
There's definitely performance differences, but not ones you can see with the naked eye.

Limitations are much slower decryption/encryption times.
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Dec 21, 2022 9:08 PM
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GidaeanDec 21, 2022 9:08 PM
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Quote from DarnCrazy View quoted comment :
Using software encryption, I haven't had any perceivable performance problems or limitations. To be fair, I only used software encryption for Bitlocker, even on drives that support hardware based encryption. So the Bitlocker performance factor wasn't something I was actively looking for when it came to hardware level encryption support.
This seems to be what most people are saying. It is annoying that MS has basically moved everyone to software encryption but modern CPUs shouldn't have any issues with it. A modern CPU has more than enough horsepower to decrypt and encrypt in realtime without a "noticeable" performance hit, whatever that means (I haven't found benchmarks to compare), probably because most of your cores sit idle most of the time (especially when waiting on IO), and it's difficult to find situations where you're pushing both the CPU to the limit AND relying upon your max data storage transfer rate at the same time, and if you are then you KNOW who you are and are probably running very high-end hardware to account for that.

I just bought the Crucial P5 Plus with the SD deal and it does advertise some newer "Opal 2" etc. compliance which MAY allow hardware encryption by Bitlocker standards, but the rest of your system has to support HW encryption too, which many don't properly. Sadly, my Asus Zephyrus G14 doesn't properly support it due to BIOS choices by Asus, no matter what SSD I use. This is fairly common.

TLDR, just use Buttlocker, or Veracrypt software encryption if you don't trust MS with your drive encryption keys.
Dec 21, 2022 9:13 PM
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mrmochiDec 21, 2022 9:13 PM
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Quote from Gidaean View quoted comment :
This seems to be what most people are saying. It is annoying that MS has basically moved everyone to software encryption but modern CPUs shouldn't have any issues with it. A modern CPU has more than enough horsepower to decrypt and encrypt in realtime without a "noticeable" performance hit, whatever that means (I haven't found benchmarks to compare), probably because most of your cores sit idle most of the time (especially when waiting on IO), and it's difficult to find situations where you're pushing both the CPU to the limit AND relying upon your max data storage transfer rate at the same time, and if you are then you KNOW who you are and are probably running very high-end hardware to account for that.

I just bought the Crucial P5 Plus with the SD deal and it does advertise some newer "Opal 2" etc. compliance which MAY allow hardware encryption by Bitlocker standards, but the rest of your system has to support HW encryption too, which many don't properly. Sadly, my Asus Zephyrus G14 doesn't properly support it due to BIOS choices by Asus, no matter what SSD I use. This is fairly common.

TLDR, just use Buttlocker, or Veracrypt software encryption if you don't trust MS with your drive encryption keys.
Veracrypt is fine for containers but I wouldn't trust it for my entire system, too risky!
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Dec 21, 2022 11:06 PM
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Quote from WiseScene422 View quoted comment :
Price is NOT $104.99 for everyone, it is listed as $149.99.

Lots of these "deals" listed lately are for prime members only, not for everyone.
Thanks. Added Prime to the title
Dec 22, 2022 5:29 AM
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anonymous-botDec 22, 2022 5:29 AM
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Quote from Gidaean View quoted comment :
I just bought the Crucial P5 Plus with the SD deal and it does advertise some newer "Opal 2" etc. compliance which MAY allow hardware encryption by Bitlocker standards, but the rest of your system has to support HW encryption too, which many don't properly.
How would you check this and could you build a new PC with all the right parts to support hardware encryption?

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"Cache Size: 1"

Can anyone definitively say if this has DRAM or not?

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