The Platinum P51, the successor to the highly acclaimed Platinum P41, has finally been introduced to the United States market. Initially unveiled in March of the previous year and subsequently launched exclusively in South Korea in December, the Platinum P51 traveled a long distance to reach this hemisphere, but they're now here and SK hynix has priced the Platinum P51 very competitively: The 1TB version is available for $169.99, and the 2TB sports a $269.99 price tag to contend with the best SSDs on the market.
The Platinum P51 employs SK hynix's in-house PCIe 5.0 SSD controller. In this instance, the manufacturer has implemented the Alistar ACNT093 controller, characterized by an eight-channel architecture and capable of supporting transfer rates up to 2,400 MT/s. Information regarding the ACNT093 is sparse. The SSD controller utilizes Arm's 32-bit Cortex-R8 processor and is believed to be fabricated on a 10nm process node, which TSMC likely supplies.
