The Sabrent Rocket is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched in 2020. It is only available in the 1 TB capacity listed on this page. With the rest of the system, the Sabrent Rocket interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the PS5012-E12S-32 from Phison, a DRAM cache chip is available. Sabrent has installed 96-layer TLC NAND flash on the Rocket, the flash chips are made by Micron. Please note that this SSD is sold in multiple variants with different NAND flash or controller, which could affect performance, the "Notes" section at the end of this page has more info. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are processed more quickly. The cache is sized at 16 GB, once it is full, writes complete at 1000 MB/s. The Rocket is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 3,400 MB/s and 3,000 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 650K for reads and 640K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 150 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Sabrent guarantees an endurance rating of 1620 TBW, a good value.