Sabrent Announces the Rocket 5 M.2 NVMe Gen 5 SSD

[btarunr]

Sabrent today announced its latest flagship M.2 NVMe SSD series, the Rocket 5. Built in the M.2-2280 form-factor, the Sabrent Rocket 5 is sold as a bare drive, with an included fan-heatsink that you install if needed. This cooler comes with a tiny fins-stack, two copper heat pipes, and a 20 mm fan. At the heart of the drive is the new Phison PS5026-E26 Max14um controller, paired with Micron B58R 232-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory, and LPDDR4 based DRAM cache. The drive comes in 1 TB, 2 TB, and 4 TB capacity variants.

The company didn't put out capacity-specific performance or endurance numbers, but mentioned sequential read speeds of up to 14 GB/s, as is characteristic of the Max14um controller variant; up to 12 GB/s sequential write speeds, up to 1.55 million IOPS 4K random reads, with up to 1.8 million IOPS 4K random writes. The Rocket 5 replaces the Rocket 4 Plus as Sabrent's flagship SSD. The 4 TB variant is listed at $730, the 2 TB variant at $340, and the 1 TB variant at $190.



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[Space Lynx]

W1zzy boyo going to be happy to test this one I bet! those IOPS nearing 2 million, wowza

 

[Klemc]

Maxtor Sabre (HDD's codmanme)...

... so Sabrent is Maxtor revived ?

 

[b1k3rdude]

Meh, I have the rocket 4plus gaming. And while its fast, it wasnt much faster than my old Samsung 960 pro at what matters, random i/o. So I dont exspected this drive to be antyhing more than an incrmental update, but happy to be proven wrong.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Meh, I have the rocket 4plus gaming. And while its fast, it wasnt much faster than my old Samsung 960 pro at what matters, random i/o. So I dont exspected this drive to be antyhing more than an incrmental update, but happy to be proven wrong.

The only update will be that this consumes much more power and you gain nothing for it, except fan noise and heat.

 

[b1k3rdude]

The only update will be that this consumes much more power and you gain nothing for it, except fan noise and heat.

Indeed. Like most Gen5 drives atm it seems.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Kind of reminds me of this little jewel seeing the manufacture prices

 

[mechtech]

“The 4 TB variant is listed at $730,”

let me be the first to say

bahahahahhaha

and

I will never pay that

 

[chrcoluk]

That pricing, the NVME industry sure is progressing - backwards.

 

[efikkan]

Wow, needing two heat pipes and a fan… This thing will not do well under a motherboard metal blob ("heatsinks" without proper fins), it will throttle very quickly due to overheating. So that burst speed is going to be a short moment of fun.

I've always thought the M.2 format is a terrible solution for desktop computers, not only because mounting often means disassembling half the PC, but also cooling becomes a big issue when these often are placed underneath graphics cards etc. If it were up to me, ATX motherboards would have only PCIe slots instead, as people can easily use an adapter to get M.2, while it's harder to use PCIe lanes tied up to M.2 slots for anything else. As performance SSDs becomes hotter, it's increasingly becoming a requirement to have active cooling (blocking other stuff) and/or a PCIe adapter card to allow airflow. Thirdly enterprise SSDs and probably high-performance consumer SSDs will be moving to the 22110 length, which many motherboards don't support.

But who wants to pay such money for a consumer SSD? (to me it seems like they don't even publish detailed spec sheets?)
For these prices people should be looking at enterprise grade SSDs, which people needing several TBs and sustained performance probably should anyways.