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  • thestryker - Thursday, May 19, 2022 - link

    I'm looking forward to seeing where this falls in reviews. I picked up a P31 after seeing the price and power consumption compared to anything near it performance wise. It has been a really good drive and while I have mine in a U.2 adapter I've never seen the heat get over 40C in normal use and only landing in the 40s on sustained heavy.

    If they can deliver with the P41 like they did with the P31 it should still be worth it even with a higher price.
  • artifex - Thursday, May 26, 2022 - link

    There's a good review over at ServeTheHome, now. Chart-topping, but boy can it get hot. I have a P31 in my current laptop, but I think I'd save this P41 for my next SFF build, though I'll have to pay attention to airflow.

    BTW, 40s for the P31 look like great numbers to me. Mine is showing 51C just while sitting here typing in the browser, while the Samsung PM981 in the next slot is 43C. But this is a chonky old laptop, without great airflow and I think no room for an aftermarket heatsink.
  • Wereweeb - Thursday, May 19, 2022 - link

    I want to see a Hynix PCIe 3.0 drive with 176L NAND. For me the extra power consumption that comes with PCIe 4.0 isn't worth it, but I would appreciate the benefits of modern components. Hynix P32?
  • nandnandnand - Sunday, May 22, 2022 - link

    You could probably limit the drive to PCIe 3.0 or put the SSD in a power saving mode.
  • drajitshnew - Friday, May 20, 2022 - link

    The current generation of drive seem to have a lower endurance around 750TBW vs 1200 to 1600 in the last generation. Any idea why
  • Ryan Smith - Friday, May 20, 2022 - link

    The P41 has the same write endurance as the P31. So nothing has changed there.

    Past that, it's hard to make meaningful inferences compared to other drives, since they use different NAND and endurance ratings are, while not quite arbitrary, set differently based on the drive manufacturer's expectations.
  • FunBunny2 - Friday, May 20, 2022 - link

    since they use different NAND and endurance ratings

    IIRC, the justification (from the user's perspective) for 3D NAND was that cell/node size would be substantially larger than current 2D, and would have endurance at least in the same ballpark as NAND made on those nodes in times past. seems to be another fable.
  • Wereweeb - Saturday, May 21, 2022 - link

    Rated write endurance is mostly for warranty segmentation purposes, to discourage the use of consumer devices where reliability matters.

    And the benefits of 3D NAND to endurance and performance were both real and noticeable. Guess what? They're going to keep shrinking cell sizes and increasing bits/cell if they can, and endurance will go down accordingly.

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