SK Hynix launches its fastest SSD yet…for now only in Korea

In reality, this SSD had already been unveiled in March, but it is only now that the manufacturer has launched it on the market, even if only in South Korea. This seems to be a fairly common practice in Asian countries, who usually launch their products first in their home country and then, when they see how they are doing, they decide whether or not to launch them internationally.

The fastest SSD from SK Hynix

Let’s get to the heart of the matter. As you can imagine, the SK Hynix Platinum P51 is an SSD with a PCIe 5.0 interface, and according to the manufacturer, it is capable of offering speeds of up to 14.7 GB/s read and 13 .4 GB/s writing, placing it among the fastest. in the world. As for its random read and write speeds, it offers up to 2,300,000 IOPS and 2,400,000 IOPS respectively.

These values ​​are really good, especially if we compare them with PCIe 5.0 SSDs currently on the market, most of them with Phison E26 controller.

However, it's not all good news as it has other values ​​that aren't really as striking, like its durability: 1,200 TBW in the 2 TB model, just as disappointing as any other SSD on the market , meaning SK Hynix hasn't made any progress in terms of durability, even though it theoretically uses the manufacturer's next-generation 238-layer 3D TLC NAND chips.

By the way, it is also worth noting that the 2TB model is the one currently offering the highest capacity (there are also 1TB and 500GB models). As for the price, nothing is known at the moment, but the news appeared precisely because they already saw it on sale in South Korea and, in fact, the screenshot above of the Crystal Disk Mark was taken by a buyer in Asian country.

As for its availability in the rest of the world, as we have already mentioned, unfortunately we cannot tell you anything at the moment. Asian manufacturers usually launch their products first in their home country and, depending on their success, then decide to expand their sales to the rest of the countries in the world. Something similar happens with the price, and although as we mentioned they already buy it in South Korea, no one has published the price nor have we found it in stores, so unfortunately we can't tell you anything about it. .

As it almost always happens, we can only wait for SK Hynix to see if the SSD sells well or not so that they can decide to introduce it to the rest of the countries.