Solidigm P41 Plus M.2 SSD Review:

Consumer Tech Solidigm P41 Plus M. 2 SSD Review: Antony Leather Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I’m a full-time PC hardware reviewer and YouTuber Following New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories.

Got it! Oct 25, 2022, 08:11am EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin If you’re wondering where Intel-branded SSDs have gone, you’re not going mad. The company has sold it’s SSD arm to chip giant SK hynix and the rebranded SSDs can now be seen on retailers’ shelves with a purple-themed Solidigm name on the box and here we’ll be looking at the 1TB and 2TB models to see how they perform. Solidigm P41 Plus M.

2 NVMe SSD Antony Leather Pricing is often the key deciding factor with SSDs given real-world noticeable performance varies little between the latest models, so it’s good to see the 2TB model retailing for $170 and 1TB at $90 This is reasonably competitive given we’re dealing with a speedy PCIe 4. 0 SSD here that boasts claimed 4,125MB/sec read speeds with the 1TB and 2TB models offering read speeds of 2,950MB/sec and 3,325MB/sec respectively. The slightly faster Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.

0 costs $70 more for 2TB, while the WD black SN770 costs $10 more and is one of the SSDs we’ll be pitching it against here. A SiliconMotion SM2269XT controller is used on this DRAM-less SSD and out of the box the 1TB model hit 4,161MB/sec read and 2,955MB/sec write, with the 2TB model hitting almost exactly the same except for a slightly higher write speed of 3,346MB/sec. Solidigm P41 Plus M.

2 NVMe SSD Antony Leather The 2TB model reached a peak of 67°C during an extended load test with no additional cooling. This is fairly toasty, but to be expected on a PCIe 4. 0 SSD as they often generate a fair amount of heat.

Using a heatsink on my test motherboard saw this fall below 60°C even during extended testing, but in a laptop you’d need to ensure it has additional cooling else it will likely throttle as temperatures would almost certainly top 75°C. MORE FOR YOU Juan Soto Contract Rejection Could Make Orioles A Better Buy Than Nationals Rishi Sunak Appointed Britain’s Next Prime Minister By King Charles III—Here’s What To Know Cyprus Could Transfer Its Russian Armaments To Ukraine If Guaranteed Speedy Replacements Even so, if you plan on installing it in a laptop, it will need some kind of additional cooling such as a heatsink or integrated solution using a thermal pad to avoid throttling in some situations. Performance I’ve used a test system using an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and MSI MEG X570 Unify motherboard with PCI-E 4.

0 support along with 16GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 memory. The sequential and random speed tests were performed using Crystal DiskMark. All the SSDs tested below were 2TB models.

Performance discussion and conclusion The Solidigm P41 Plus offered some compelling results against more expensive SSDs such as the WD Black SN770, outperforming it in the 3DMark game load speed and latency tests, which are arguably where its targeted audience will be most concerned about performance. Solidigm P41 Plus M. 2 NVMe SSD Antony Leather Elsewhere, it wasn’t as fast as the WD Black SN770, which offered much faster sequential speeds as well as random 4K Q32T16 speeds, but matched the single queue depth single thread random speeds.

Both SSDs have a 5 year warranty, but while Solidigm covers up to 800TB to be written to the SSD in this time – much more than most would ever use – the SN770 offers a 1200TBW rating for its 2TB model. It’s a toss up between the two with the WD Black SN770 offering greater throughput in sequential and random speeds that will benefit those that regularly read and write lots of data as well as having a warranty that covers extended writing to the SSD. The Solidigm P41 Plus offers better performance in the game tests as well as a lower price making it slightly better value, especially for gamers and those that won’t see much benefit from faster sequential speeds.

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