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The Platinum P41 comes in a simple, yet attractive, black box with what appears to be a large, purple crystal on the front. Unfortunately, besides the capacity, there isn't a lot of information regarding the drive's specifications or features. If you want detailed product information, you will need to visit SK hynix's website.
Like most manufacturers, SK hynix doesn't include a lot of extras with the Platinum P41. Aside from the SSD, the only other things in the box were a couple of small, fold out guides containing warranty information as well as some brief installation instructions.
Physical Features:
The Platinum P41 uses the 2280 form factor for M.2 (NGFF) SSDs. It measures 22 x 80 x 2.23 mm and tips the scales at 7g. The drive also has an "M key" edge connector which provides PCIe SSDs with up to 4x lanes of bandwidth.
The Platinum P41 is the first drive to utilize SK hynix's "Aries" ACNS075 controller. Not much is known about this controller aside from that it has eight channels and has support for NVMe version 1.4.
One of the few complaints people had about the 500GB and 1TB versions of the Gold P31 was that the PCB was green in color. As with the 2TB version of the Gold P31, the Platinum P41 has a stealthy black PCB.
For the 2TB version of the Platinum P41, SK hynix has opted to use its own 176-layer 3D TLC NAND flash. If you'd remove the sticker, you'd see that there are two 1TB NAND flash packages on the top of the PCB. The drive also has a single 2GB LPDDR4 DRAM chip that is used for caching.
