The Sabrent Rocket 4.0 (w/ Heatsink) was a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on July 1st, 2019, that is no longer in production. It was available in capacities ranging from 500 GB to 2 TB. This page reports specifications for the 500 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Sabrent Rocket 4.0 (w/ Heatsink) interfaces using a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the PS5016-E16-32 from Phison, a DRAM cache chip is available. Sabrent has installed 96-layer TLC NAND flash on the Rocket 4.0 (w/ Heatsink), the flash chips are made by Toshiba. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are handled more quickly. The cache is sized at 185 GB. Copying data out of the SLC cache (folding) completes at 325 MB/s. Thanks to support for the fast PCI-Express 4.0 interface, performance is excellent. The Rocket 4.0 (w/ Heatsink) is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 5,000 MB/s and 2,500 MB/s write; random IO reaches 400K IOPS for read and 550K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 90 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Sabrent guarantees an endurance rating of 850 TBW, a good value.