Tuesday, September 1st 2020
Sabrent Announces Next-Generation Rocket 4 Plus PCIe 4.0 SSD
Sabrent have recently announced the Rocket 4 Plus NVMe SSD which they claim is the fastest available. The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus utilizes the next-generation Phison PS5018-E18 SSD controller which enables significantly faster performance with 7,000 MB/s sequential read and 6850 MB/s sequential write speeds. These speeds are just above the recently announced Samsung 980 PRO and beat virtually all other PCIe 4.0 SSD's using the Phison PS5016-E16 controller which maxes out at sequential read speeds of ~5,000 MB/s.
The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus is available in 500 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB variants which is double the max available capacity offered by Samsung on the 980 PRO. These speeds from Samsung and Sabrent are now approaching the bandwidth limits of PCIe 4.0 x4 slots, however the practical applications of such speeds are minimal for most users. Pricing and availability was not announced.
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The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus is available in 500 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB variants which is double the max available capacity offered by Samsung on the 980 PRO. These speeds from Samsung and Sabrent are now approaching the bandwidth limits of PCIe 4.0 x4 slots, however the practical applications of such speeds are minimal for most users. Pricing and availability was not announced.
16 Comments on Sabrent Announces Next-Generation Rocket 4 Plus PCIe 4.0 SSD
Definitely excited for the Phison E18s, though.
Inferior to Samsung.
Then again, these are estimated speeds from CES, which are on par with Samsung.
www.anandtech.com/show/14728/phison-previews-nextgen-ps5018e18-pcie-40-ssd-controller-up-to-7-gbs-nvme-14
Max temps is not defined ?
If you like the drive all the power to you buy one.
I'm going to stick with Phison based controller drives just my personal preference.
So I'll probably end up buying this one and hope that it'll perform well. My Aorus Gen 4 is writing around 1000 MB/s, should be at least 4000. It's working fine otherwise so I figure maybe I'll keep it for a secondary M.2 and buy this new sabrent. Again that fan addition just sitting on the MB works wonders, way more than the stock crap 40mm fan and considerably more silent. Will probably work better than using the Sabrent heat sink AND you can keep the RGB if you want lol.TBW shouldn't be too much of a factor if it's above 500 or 600 and it's just for gaming or regular consumer stuff. Keep in mind writing 50 gigabytes per DAY for a decade you still won't kill it by then. You're probably not even writing a gig. It's mostly reading when you play games and browse stuff and what not. That doesn't affect the life too much. It's just simple math. Random performance is way more important. Though if you get a drive with like 200 TBW or less that's kinda a worry for longevity.
About gigabyte ssd... imo sounds like a faulty unit, have you tried to rma it? As it doesn't perform anywhere near its rated performance.