What’s the difference between the Inland Premium, Platinum and Professional?

Inland has three similar internal solid state drives with the Premium, Platinum and Professional. So, what are the differences between these?

You can find out in this comparison guide between the three SSDs.

Quick Summary

When compared to the Inland Premium and Inland Professional, the Inland Platinum has the best maximum sequential read speed and maximum random write speed.

The Inland Premium has the best maximum random reading speed.

The best maximum sequential write speed between the three solid state drives depends on the capacity.

In terms of reliability, the Professional is the more reliable while the Platinum is the least. The Premium is in the middle of the road.

M.2 2280 Premium vs. M.2 2280 Platinum vs. M.2 2280 Professional Comparison Chart

You can find Seeking Tech’s comparison table for the three Inland SSDs below.

Form Factor

The Inland Premium, Platinum and Professional Solid State Drives all use the M.2 2280 form factor.

Interface

The three SSDs also use PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 as the interface.

NAND

You can take a look at the NAND type being used be each of the products below:

• Inland Premium: 3D TLC
• Inland Platinum: 3D QLC
• Inland Professional: 3D TLC

NVMe 1.3

The Premium, Platinum and Professionals are all compatible with the NVMe 1.3.

PCIe 3.1

The three storage drives in this versus guide are also compatible with PCIe 3.1.

Operating Systems

You can also take a look at the supported operating systems below:

Inland Premium:

• Windows 8
• Windows 10

Inland Platinum:

• Windows 8
• Windows 10

Inland Professional:

• Mac
• Windows 8
• Windows 10

Maximum Sequential Read Speed

When comparing the same capacities, the Inland Platinum has the fastest maximum sequential reading speeds out of this group.

The top speed of the 1 TB Platinum is 300 MB faster than the 1 TB Premium and 1400 MB faster than the 1 TB Professional. The 2 TB Platinum is also 200 MB faster than the 2 TB Premium.

The Premium is the second fastest at sequential reads. The top speed of the 256 GB Premium is 1000 MB faster than the 256 GB Professional. The 512 GB Premium is also 1100 MB per second faster than the 512 GB Professional.

You can take a look at the max sequential read specifications below:

• 256GB Inland Premium: Up to 2900 MB per second
• 512GB Inland Premium: Up to 3100 MB per second
• 1TB Inland Premium: Up to 3100 MB per second
• 2TB Inland Premium: Up to 3200 MB per second

• 1TB Inland Platinum: Up to 3400 MB per second
• 2TB Inland Platinum: Up to 3400 MB per second

• 256GB Inland Professional: Up to 1900 MB per second
• 512GB Inland Professional: Up to 2000 MB per second
• 1TB Inland Professional: Up to 2000 MB per second

Maximum Sequential Write Speed

When it comes to maximum sequential writing, the 1 TB Premium is 900 MB faster than the 1 TB Platinum and 1200 MB per second faster than the 1 TB Professional.

On the other hand, the 2 TB Platinum is 100 MB faster than the 2 TB Premium.

For the smaller capacities, the 256 GB Professional is 150 MB faster than the 256 GB Premium. The 512 GB Premium is 300 MB faster than the 512 GB Professional, however.

You can find the write speeds below:

• 256GB Inland Premium: Up to 950 MB per second
• 512GB Inland Premium: Up to 1900 MB per second
• 1TB Inland Premium: Up to 2800 MB per second
• 2TB Inland Premium: Up to 2900 MB per second

• 1TB Inland Platinum: Up to 1900 MB per second
• 2TB Inland Platinum: Up to 3000 MB per second

• 256GB Inland Professional: Up to 1100 MB per second
• 512GB Inland Professional: Up to 1500 MB per second
• 1TB Inland Professional: Up to 1600 MB per second

Maximum Random Read Speed

For maximum random reading, the Inland Premium is the best out of this group.

At top speed, the 256 GB Premium is 60,000 IOPS faster than the 256 GB Professional. The 512 GB Premium is 260,000 IOPS faster than the 512 GB Professional. The 1 TB Premium is 270,000 IOPS faster than the 1 TB Platinum and 295,000 IOPS faster than the 1 TB Professional. Last but not least, the 2 TB Premium is 210,000 IOPS faster than the 2 TB Platinum.

You can find the random read specs for the solid state drive below:

• 256GB Inland Premium: Up to 150,000 IOPS
• 512GB Inland Premium: Up to 430,000 IOPS
• 1TB Inland Premium: Up to 520,000 IOPS
• 2TB Inland Premium: Up to 460,000 IOPS

• 1TB Inland Platinum: Up to 120,000 IOPS
• 2TB Inland Platinum: Up to 250,000 IOPS

• 256GB Inland Professional: Up to 90,000 IOPS
• 512GB Inland Professional: Up to 170,000 IOPS
• 1TB Inland Professional: Up to 225,000 IOPS

Maximum Random Write Speed

The Inland Platinum SSD is the best when it comes to maximum random writing.

The 1 TB Platinum is 70,000 IOPS faster than the 1 TB Premium and 265,000 IOPS faster than the 1 TB Professional. The 2 TB Platinum is 200,000 IOPS faster than the 2 TB Premium.

For the smaller capacity options, the 256 Professional is 25,000 IOPS faster than the 256 GB Premium. However, the 512 GB Premium is 80,000 IOPS faster than the 512 GB Professional.

You can find the max random write specs below:

• 256GB Inland Premium: Up to 220,000 IOPS
• 512GB Inland Premium: Up to 340,000 IOPS
• 1TB Inland Premium: Up to 430,000 IOPS
• 2TB Inland Premium: Up to 450,000 IOPS

• 1TB Inland Platinum: Up to 500,000 IOPS
• 2TB Inland Platinum: Up to 650,000 IOPS

• 256GB Inland Professional: Up to 245,000 IOPS
• 512GB Inland Professional: Up to 260,000 IOPS
• 1TB Inland Professional: Up to 235,000 IOPS

MTBF

Mean Time Between Failures measure how reliable a solid state drive is in terms of the time in between two critical hardware failures.

The Inland Professional SSD has the best reliability, followed by the Inland Premium SSD. The Inland Platinum SSD is the least reliable.

You can find the MTBF for each of the three products below:

• Inland Premium: 1,800,000 Hours
• Inland Platinum: 1,500,000 hours
• Inland Professional: 2,000,000 hours

Shock Resistance

The three storage drives in this comparison guide have the same shock resistance specs of 1,500G, 0.5ms.

Warranty

The Inland Premium, Inland Platinum and Inland Professional all come with a 3-year limited parts and labor warranty coverage.