Solid-state drive
Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus
A superfast, 2TB second-generation PCIe 4.0 drive that comes in at a decent price? Sign me up, says Alan Dexter.
SPECS
Model: SB-RKT4P-2TB
Capacity: 2,000GB
Interface: PCIe Gen4 x4
Controller:
Phison PS5018-E18
NAND: Micron B27 96-later TLC
Rated
seq.
read: 7,100MB/s
Rated
seq.
write: 6,600MB/s
Endurance: 1,400TBW
Warranty: Five years
M eet the first drive to use the new Phison E18 controller. This is the followup to the immensely popular Phison E16 controller found in basically every first-generation PCIe 4.0 drive. No, seriously, that’s the controller you’ll find in everything from the CORSAIR MP600, to the GIGABYTE AORUS, to the Addlink S90, in addition to plenty of Sabrent’s drives. And for good reason: it topped out at just over 5,000MB/s for reads, and 4,400MB/s writes, while the best PCIe 3.0 drives managed reads of 3,500MB/s and writes of just 2,500MB/s.