Though there's room for improvement in small- and 4K file performance, there's little else to complain about with the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus in its 2TB incarnation. Performance will decrease as the drive fills up. All testing is performed on an empty, or nearly empty drive. The PCIe 4 testing was done on an MSI MEG X570 motherboard socketing an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-core CPU, using the same Kingston DRAM, cards, and software.
It also contains a Gigabyte GC-Alpine Thunderbolt 3 card, and Softperfect Ramdisk 3.4.6 for the 48GB read and write tests. The PCIe 3 tests utilized Windows 10 64-bit running on a Core i7-5820K/Asus X99 Deluxe system with four 16GB Kingston 2666MHz DDR4 modules, a Zotac (NVidia) GT 710 1GB x2 PCIe graphics card, and an Asmedia ASM2142 USB 3.1 card. Write speeds will slow down tremendously without NAND available as cache.
I should also mention that in general, it's never a good idea to run an SSD close to capacity. The 2TB Rocket 4 Plus wrote 450GB faster than its 980 Pro rival, though the latter was only 1TB. NAND is treated as SLC for secondary caching to the tune of 25 percent.īeyond that, the drive is enveloped in coppery goodness (the label) and is available in two flavors: 1TB (US$160 (AU$249.99) on Amazon) and 2TB (US$310 (AU$529.99) on Amazon), while a 4TB flavor costs US$750 (AU$1,110.66) on Amazon. Sabrent promises not to change to slower components, as has happened with a couple of SSD vendors recently. The Rocket 4 Plus is an x4 PCIe 4.0 device featuring a Phison PS5018-E18 controller and 96-layer, Micron TLC NAND. The NVMe SSDs we review all use the M.2 connector, and are 22 mm wide by 80 mm long (2280). Even if copper leaves you flat, the drive's stellar performance will grab your attention-it bested the Samsung 980 Pro in many tests. The heat-spreader and the metal carrying case for the brand spanking new Rocket 4 Plus PCIe 4 NMVe SSD feature the color in copious amounts. Sabrent must've read some of my articles and discovered my love of the color copper.
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