Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 4 TB SSD

[W1zzard]

The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 4 TB offers tons of capacity for all your games, applications, and files. Thanks to the combination of Phison E18 controller and Micron B47R 176-layer TLC NAND, it's also able to match the WD Black SN850, which is the fastest SSD we ever reviewed.

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[Selaya]

ew.
the revenge of the 44444 tax? (tax for both pcie 4.0 and 4tb size)
good drive otherwise.

 

[TechLurker]

I've always had mild issues with Sabrent NVMe drives overheating in mostly read operations (games), forcing me to add a 60mm fan blowing over it, or a heatsink, or throw it into an external enclosure with active cooling. Samsung and Crucial/Micron don't seem to have the same issues, but I wonder if WD and Seagate's offerings have similar overheating issues. The new WD 770 that was reviewed seems like a promising replacement for the last "mission critical" Sabrent I'm still using.

 

[Divide Overflow]

I haven't seen any thermal issues with my Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 1TB drive. Works like a champ.

 

[mechtech]

"The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus comes in capacities of 500 GB ($77), 1 TB ($130), 2 TB ($260), 4 TB ($750), and 8 TB (unknown)."

I hate this ssd pricing lunacy, and it goes for all SSDs, 2.5", nvme, etc.

If I can buy almost six 1TB drives for 6TB of space with 6 controllers, 6 ram chips, 6 boxes etc. for about the same price as a single 4TB drive that just has one ram chip, one controller.............well it grinds my gears. A 4TB SSD should be about $300-$400 (ish) depending on sata or nvme and version.

 

[chrcoluk]

Thumbs up for putting in the summary the heatsink should be free, I think we really should be having heatsinks as standard, they serve not only to cool but also to reduce exposure of chips. Without the heatsnk and active cooling, the throttling I think was a fail.

Interestingly the temps with the heatsink I think may have throttled if you ran the test longer, the temps never stabilised, and it only made it due to the test been stopped at 10 minutes.

Regardless this looks a decent drive for performance.

 

[W1zzard]

Interestingly the temps with the heatsink I think may have throttled if you ran the test longer, the temps never stabilised, and it only made it due to the test been stopped at 10 minutes.

The normal write test shows throttling starting at around 73°C. If you extrapolate the "with big heatsink" curve, I don't see how it'll reach that point, ever. Maybe 71°C.

Also you have to consider that any normal workload ends at some point. 10 minutes @ 5.5 GB/s = 3.3 TB written in a super short time

If I can buy almost six 1TB drives for 6TB of space with 6 controllers, 6 ram chips, 6 boxes etc. for about the same price as a single 4TB drive that just has one ram chip, one controller.............well it grinds my gears. A 4TB SSD should be about $300-$400 (ish) depending on sata or nvme and version.

Yeah, that's why I asked Sabrent about that specifically

I've always had mild issues with Sabrent NVMe drives overheating in mostly read operations

Can you describe your setup a bit more? I've never seen any SSD throttle during reads

 

[konga]

Seeing prices like this makes me glad that I managed to snag a 4TB Sandisk Ultra for $300 over the holidays. There's no way you can justify 2.5x the price for almost the same performance in all the applications and games I use it for.

 

[progste]

HDDs will stay relevant until these units come at sane prices.
For now 1TB SSD + 8 TB HDD is still the best configuration.

 

[Jack1n]

"The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus comes in capacities of 500 GB ($77), 1 TB ($130), 2 TB ($260), 4 TB ($750), and 8 TB (unknown)."

I hate this ssd pricing lunacy, and it goes for all SSDs, 2.5", nvme, etc.

If I can buy almost six 1TB drives for 6TB of space with 6 controllers, 6 ram chips, 6 boxes etc. for about the same price as a single 4TB drive that just has one ram chip, one controller.............well it grinds my gears. A 4TB SSD should be about $300-$400 (ish) depending on sata or nvme and version.

My guess is that the 2TB and lower variants will sell at a much greater volume than the 4TB and therefore are manufactured on a much larger scale, making them significantly cheaper.

 

[TechLurker]

Can you describe your setup a bit more? I've never seen any SSD throttle during reads

They were in the last NVMe slot towards the bottom of the mobo and buried under a 10GbE network card (first with integrated mobo-heatspreader, then replaced with a finned cooler). So I suspect that not enough cool air could reach it despite being mostly unobstructed, hence the need for heatsinks or a small fan. The replacement Samsung and Crucial NVMe drives handled the location better than the Sabrent in the same spot without locking up on AAA and MMO gaming though, despite having no cooler or fan pointed at them. I did later try them in a simple aluminum external enclosure, and they still got uncomfortably warm during gaming sessions running off the drive or editing of family videos stored on the drive. Now I mostly use them as portable flash drive replacements for non-gaming tasks; strictly copy/paste/light editing.

So I think it's just a combination of early adopter teething and PC set up that they couldn't tolerate as well as other brands. 1x Sabrent Rocket Gen 4 1TB, 1 Sabrent Gen 3 2TB, and 1 Sabrent Rocket Gen 4 500GB.

 

[Gundem]

"... so you could go for a 4 TB TLC SATA SSD for around $400 and pair it with a fast 2 TB E18 drive for $260, which totals 6 TB of storage for the price of the 4 TB Rocket 4 Plus"

That's where it's at. No buts.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

I've been very happy with my 2TB rocket 4 plus drive. Of note they just came out with a 8TB version.