Samsung may have revealed their own PCI-e 4.0 SSD recently, the 980 PRO, but it appears that Sabrent already has a faster product than Samsung’s offerings. Meet the new Rocket 4 Plus SSD, packing insane speeds. To be precise, this SSD boasts sequential read speeds of up to 7000 MB/s and can write at up to 6850 MB/s, making this the fastest M.2 SSD by a significant margin.
While the 980 PRO caps out at 5000 MB/s for the sequential write metric, the Sabrent 4 Plus on the other hand can achieve 6850 MB/s for write and a full 7000 MB/s for reads.
It appears that Sabrent was waiting for this opportunity for Samsung to first reveal their long-awaited 980 Pro SSD Model, and once it was unveiled, Sabrent responded with their own Rocket 4 Plus SSD lineup, thus giving Samsung just a few days of glory, a technique widely known as sandbagging.
The new Sabrent ‘Rocket 4 Plus’ NVMe SSD is powered by Phison’s new E18 controller/PS5018-E18, and comes in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities, and it uses TLC NAND for storage. The drive also comes with a huge bulky cooler that uses tons of aluminum and three thick copper heat coils. To fully utilize the potential of these drives, they must be installed on a PCIe Gen 4 compliant platform such as AMD’s X570 (AMD Ryzen/TR 3000 series processor and a PCIe 4.0 compatible motherboard) and/or Intel’s Z490 (Rocket Lake CPU).
You can’t get 7GB/sec without creating some massive heat, but Sabrent has the answer in the form of a new custom heatsink, which uses a winning combination of aluminum and copper. Sabrent has used copper to absorb the heat coming off of the drive when it’s revving at 7GB/sec. According to Sabrent, by this method the heat is moved away from the drive, through the grooved aluminum surface on top of the heatsink.
It’s good to have the fastest NVMe SSD plugged into your PC/system, but if there’s no proper cooling or heatsink then you will rarely see those stable max speeds achieved, because the drive will throttle down due to thermals, just like a CPU or GPU. To pump an insane 7GB/sec speed requires some serious cooling, and Sabrent already has the answer in the form of the Rocket 4 Plus SSD.
Custom Heatsink:
“When maximum performance is reached, additional heat is generated. To help dissipate this heat efficiently, Sabrent has developed a state-of-the-art heatsink using the winning combination of aluminum and copper. Designed for desktop computers, the heatsink is easy to install and fully compatible with Single/Double sided M.2 2280 SSDs”.
Thermal Conductivity:
“The copper is used to absorb the drive’s heat, moving it away from the drive and spreading it through the grooved aluminum surface on top of the heatsink. This added level of cooling efficiency allows the drive to avoid all thermal throttling, which maximizes the performance of your drive”
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LOL gotta love competition.
No kidding LOL, as if it was not insane enough with Samsung’s announcement 2 days ago and then you get something like this that is even better! Seems crazy, what a time to be alive with all this new tech news this month.
Man I can’t even imagine what the PCIe 5 systems will bring to the table next year! Damn…. so basically We will have 14 MB/s R and 13 MB/s W uncompressed by next year, that is freaking insane.
Feels good Man 🙂 , btw 11 hours to go till the RTX 3000s launch event!!!! My body is ready + PC 4L|F3
Now we just need gaming to make full use of this tech!!
Man that is crazy!!!! Thanks for the heads up.
Anyone that wants to get these new Gen 4 NVMe’s seriously look into something like the ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 cards. I have the Gen 3 version in My Threadripper build and I never over heat and always run My 970 Plus + Pro drives at Max. The Gen 4 card is also better than the one I have in terms of design + cooling. Last thing anyone that has the X570 mobo’s this add in card 100% supports your board.
Anyways, I still can’t believe Sabrent beat Samsung this fast and I will also bet money it will be less money too(plus it has a 2TB size). I know which one I would get.
No thx. I am happy with my 7 years old HDD
if you said ssd i would understand but why hdd?
Cuz i am poor AF
No wonder you can’t run SC :3
There is no money in the world that whoud make me play scam citizen
SSDs are cheap these days.
I dont have job cuz corona. So i am unempolyed síce Feb.. I am rly low on money.
Still stuck on pcie 3.0 🙁
Wow, so this is the power of the PS5!
it needs a bulky heatsink
samsung could have done that
i think for convenience samsung is ahead
i’d love to see companies offering way better random write read speeds.sequential is not that practical in real world use.
My Intel 660p with 1600MB/s reads is plenty for me.
I don’t get the purpose of these high end turbo fast M.2 drives. Games can’t utilize that speed beyond your standard SATAIII SSDs.
Only thing I can think of is work that does a lot of large file transfering.
What is the meant use case for these?
Kkkkk, Now buy this and whait 5 years to Play Rarchet and clank, idiots Pc gamers
Oh kid, go play your Ratchet and Clank at 30 fps on your Playstation 5 that you don’t even own yet, because in the future your dad will have to buy it for you in 24 installments!!!
kkkkk, criança Sonysta Trouxa!!!
Te conheco, mais um piratero aqui no site, kkkkkkkkk
Samsung need to release the 980Ti already!
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Great article Nick. I didn’t even know about either drive. This is one reason why I keep coming to this site.
Spend all this money so you can play gorgeous micro transactions ridden games with no soul
Reading dsog comments section for few days. It seems some console worshipper slowly infiltrated this site and making usual low quality comments (seriously,what can you expect from them?). Seems like their playground site rules is too strict for them to express their “insulting freedom”. So,they seek refugee here… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7f6058b94ae41fe3f92939526b22297135fde887546178dec6e568ef0971cfae.gif