Sabrent revamps its SSD lineup with their new Rocket 4 drives

Sabrent has refreshed its Rocket 4 SSD lineup with new, more efficient, hardware

The SSD market is rapidly changing, and Sabrent are ready to take advantage of the latest technological advancements. Utilising Phison’s new E27T SSD controller and Kioxia BiCS6 2,400MT/s NAND flash, Sabrent has refreshed their Rocket SSD lineup with a new Rocket 4 SSD model. This new model replaces their existing Rocket 4 Plus, and Rocket 4 Plus-G models, delivering higher sequential speeds, and greater power efficiency.

With heightened power efficiency, Sabrent’s new Rocket 4 SSD runs cooler than the company’s older Rocket 4 drives and consumes less power under load. This means that this SSD requires minimal cooling. This drive’s lowered power draw will also be extremely useful for mobile devices, like laptops.

Performance-wise, this SSD boasts sequential read/write speeds of 7400/6400 MB/s. This drive also boasts 1000K/950K random read/write IOPS. Not bad for a 4-channel DRAM-less SSD.

At launch, Sabrent’s new Rocket 4 SSD will be available in 1TB and 2TB forms. A 4TB model is also in the works.

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I know many of you are wondering this. Why are Sabrent refreshing its Rocket 4 lineup? The answer to this question is simple, rising NAND costs and end of life hardware. Sabrent’s older Rocket 4 Plus and Rocket 4 Plus-G SSDs use controllers that will soon be EOL (End of Life). That means that those SSD designs will no longer be manufacturable once controller supplies run dry. This has forced Sabrent to develop a new PCIe 4.0 SSD using new parts. That’s where the new Rocket 4 comes in. It’s a newer drive with faster, more efficient parts.

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