Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB NVMe M.2 Review

Conclusion

If you’re European you’ll be aware of a brand called Ronseal who famously advertised their products with the tagline “does exactly what it says on the tin”. We could easily paraphrase this to sum up the Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB drive. If you want an NVMe drive, with an 8TB capacity, then get the Sabrent Rocket Q NVMe 8TB, it does exactly what it says on the … label.

We’re really not sure what else needs to be said. If you’re like 90% of us you’ll have took one look at the price tag, £1799 for this 8TB version, and decided that it would be great but you haven’t recently won the lottery so it’ll have to go on some dream list for a future build. If, however, you look at the price and think it’s fair for what you’re getting and you absolutely must have an 8TB drive, then you’ll get it regardless of what we say.

We suppose we could talk about the speed, which might not be record breaking but is not bad at all, particularly when taking advantage of the SLC cache aspect the Rocket Q can bring to the party. That does come with a massive caveat though. Normally when discussing drives the manufacturers talk only about the headline speeds and then have some tiny 2pt font text that explains those numbers are only valid on their flagship model, in ideal conditions, on one thursday afternoon just after a nice lunch. Sabrent deserve a lot of credit for being up front about the fact that the 4TB and 8TB models will give you one lot of performance, and that performance quickly diminishes as you move down the size range towards models that can be afforded by the average user. So we could talk about performance, but that’s only really applicable to this drive, and the price of this drive hasn’t changed, and thus we refer you to the paragraph above.

Clearly if you want a drive with the capaciousness of a particularly large container ship, then the Sabrent Rocket Q will absolutely get the job done and little else will suffice. It might be massive in capacity, but it’s darn good on performance too, and is another statement of intent from Sabrent. For the rest of us with more limited budgets you’ll be better off looking at a drive which brings lightning speeds at lower capacities, in which bracket the Samsung 970 EVO is still the daddy.

The Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB. It does exactly what it says on the box.

  

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