Review: Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB NVMe SSD M.2

#5801430 Posted on: 06/20/2020 02:26 AM

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Can someone explain why the PCMark 8 Storage benchmarks have the absolute slowest, cheapest, ancient SSDs doing the disc trace timing tests at almost the exact same speed as latest PCI-E Gen4 NVmE drives???

eg. Battlefield 3 has Sabrant Rocket Gen4 at 131.2 seconds and I have an ancient piece of crap 480G Sandisc and that gets 134.3 seconds in same test???

Why aren't the latest PCI-E Gen4 NVME kicking the crap and doing same test in 15 seconds??

Are these newer drives speeds a bit of a scam? Do they only reach those in very rare occasions?
Yes and no....

Check out the video in the spoiler tag... (sorry Hilbert, it would take way too much text for me to clarify my answer without this video)




Basically, queue depth makes a big difference as does file size, file count, cache, etc.... There are some things a faster SSD will (obviously) do faster.....and there are some things that even an SATA SSD will keep pace with just fine.

The only reason I have an NVMe SSD is because it's price/capacity ratio was better than the SATA equivalent at the time. I have 3 systems. 2 use NVMe M.2 SSDs and 1 uses an SATA M.2 SSD. There is actually no discernable difference between the 3 systems in most scenarios.....

Very rarely even a major update is more than 300MB.
You've obviously never played Diablo3.... Updates for D3 are regularly in the 2-5GB range..

#5801436 Posted on: 06/20/2020 02:40 AM

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The reason my 500GB Evo is retiring is I couldn't wait any longer. I was going to wait like you, but I ordered a 3800x system last weekend. I had to buy a unicorn "used-good condition" x570 board ($262) off of amazon warehouse. It just arrived an hour ago. I spent all week wondering what would be "used" about it. Nothing. It's literally brand new. Quite relieved and stoked.

#5801525 Posted on: 06/20/2020 02:30 PM

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I’m on the auto notification list for a B550i from ASUS. I’ll likely just pick up a 3600 for a placeholder and jump to a 4900x end of year. My memory is already Samsung b-die.

#5807228 Posted on: 07/09/2020 05:58 PM

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We review the Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB, a fast M.2 SSD that you can purchase for 129 USD these days. Labeled with Reads and Writes in the 3200/2000 MB/s ranges there however is an oddity to be found with ...

Review: Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB NVMe SSD M.2

Hello, I am a laptop user and I am thinking on buying a SSD nvme due to huge load times in video games and a slow performance in general of my laptop. I have a HP omen 15-ax204ns. I am studying in collge and I need to have a laptop so I also use it as my gaming machine.
I write this to ask you if you would advice me to buy one of this ssd or spend more money and go for a more expensive one . (I wouldnt replace my old hard drive but I dont want to buy an ssd that dies on 1 year).
Thank you.