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Are SK Hynix SSDs Any Good?

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SK Hynix is pretty well known in the industry for OEM drives, mostly selling drives for prebuilts and laptops. They only recently moved into selling directly to consumers, but their drives are very solid and I'd feel comfortable recommending one. 

 

If it would make you feel better, I know the SSD in the Framework laptop Linus is using is an SK Hynix SSD (I forget the exact model, but it's one of their Gen3 NVMe drives). 

Greetings Community

Just a quick question,

I was looking at 500gb SSDs for a client.

I usually buy Samsung SSDs, but at the moment their 500gb SSDs are not the most well priced they ever have been.

SK Hynix isn't far off from the Crucial drive as performance and write integrity goes (Spec Wise). The main reason though is it's close to $10 cheaper.

 

Are SK Hynix drives anywhere close to as reliable as Crucial or Samsung drives? Do they actually seem to stand up to the speed and write endurance that Crucial and Samsung drives are known for?

 

SK Hynix Drive: https://www.amazon.com/SK-hynix-Gold-500GB-Internal/dp/B07SK5BNM1/

Crucial Drive:  https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-500GB-NAND-Internal/dp/B0786QNS9B/

Samsung Drive: https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-500GB-Internal-MZ-77E500B-AM/dp/B08QBMD6P4/

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SK Hynix is pretty well known in the industry for OEM drives, mostly selling drives for prebuilts and laptops. They only recently moved into selling directly to consumers, but their drives are very solid and I'd feel comfortable recommending one. 

 

If it would make you feel better, I know the SSD in the Framework laptop Linus is using is an SK Hynix SSD (I forget the exact model, but it's one of their Gen3 NVMe drives). 

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Just now, RONOTHAN## said:

SK Hynix is pretty well known in the industry for OEM drives, mostly selling drives for prebuilts and laptops. They only recently moved into selling directly to consumers, but their drives are very solid and I'd feel comfortable recommending one. 

 

If it would make you feel better, I know the SSD in the Framework laptop Linus is using is an SK Hynix SSD (I forget the exact model, but it's one of their Gen3 NVMe drives). 

Awesome, thanks.

I have used an SK Hynix drive out of a Dell laptop for several years now and not had an issue. I just wanted to make sure.

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42 minutes ago, birdflyer said:

Are SK Hynix drives anywhere close to as reliable as Crucial or Samsung drives? Do they actually seem to stand up to the speed and write endurance that Crucial and Samsung drives are known for?

This is actually a bit of a cool read: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16012/the-sk-hynix-gold-p31-ssd-review

TL;DR: the SKHynix P31 NVMe draws substantially less power than any other comparable drive, to the point of confusing the people at Anandtech until they reran their tests and confirmed it. That's what sold me on the P31 in my laptop (for battery lifetime purposes).

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