Introduction
Sabrent Rocket 1TB NVMe M2 SSD (3400 MB/s - 1TB -114 USD)
High perf M.2.Class SSD performance for a mainstream price
How good (or bad) is a 149 USD M2 SSD bought from Amazon? We received an email from Sabrent claiming they offer a 1TB NVMe PCIe3 x4 SSD that often is as fast as a Samsung EVO 970. Meet the Sabrent Rocket 1TB NVMe, a USA based company that is trying to inject price worthy hardware related solutions onto the market. They have QLC based products, PCIe Gen 4 based SSDs. But for those that want high-performance at a good price, this PCIe Gen 3 x4 M2 unit might tick the right boxes.
The Rocket is available in five flavors: the 1TB version we tested, a 256GB model, a 512GB model, a 2TB model and even a whopping 4TB model (849 USD) is available. Sabrent is claiming numbers that run into the 3400 MB/s; Write Speeds and up to 3000 MB/s for these M2 SSDs, at 15 cents per GB. They even offer 5 years warranty. The TBW (TeraBytes Written—the total amount of data that a company is willing to guarantee can be written to the drive) ratings of 1665 TBW for the 1 TB model drives seem quite up there as well.
- SB-ROCKET-256, TBW=380
- SB-ROCKET-512 TBW=800
- SB-ROCKET-1TB , TBW=1665
- SB-ROCKET-2TB, TBW=3115
The specs are great but will this unit deliver what it claims? SSD is based on that familiar Phison's PS5012-E12 controller and of course, has been fitted with TLC written NAND from Kioxia (Toshiba). The performance will vary depending on volume size. The SSD is a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe 1.3) M.2 form factor SSD, it has been fitted with new stacked NAND TLC. The performance numbers of a proper SATA3 SSD offers these days are simply excellent, but with the more niche NVMe SSDs you can easily quadruple performance, which offers serious numbers. The unit follows a smaller M.2 2280 form factor (8cm) so it will fit on most ATX motherboards capable of M.2 just fine. Anyway, wanna see how fast it really is? Next page and onwards into the review then.
