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Sabrent Rocket Q4 NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 2TB SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2022-02-22

The Sabrent Rocket Q4 2TB drive performs well for a QLC drive, a type of NAND flash mainly user with entry-level and mainstream SSD offerings. The Phison PS5016-E16 controller is making a great pair with Micron’s 96-layer QLC, resulting in it trading punches with the previous mainstream PCIe 4.0 drives we have previously tested. The drive could sustain high performance for quite a bit, but the behavior is quite different versus TLC NAND when SLC cache is exhausted, resulting quite low writes between 50 and 150MB/s, depending on the current cache state.

A Closer Look Part II

The actual drive is surrounded by protective material on the sides, but also on the top, so it won’t move during transit:

The guide will help people which have never installed such devices with the usual procedures:

Let’s remove the drive from the packaging and see what we have got!

The top area of the PCB is fully covered by a large sticker which holds the company logo, but also the drive capacity and supported bus. This is not a simple sticker, since underneath we will find a thin copper layer which helps with heat evacuation from the main controller during continuous writes:

On the back side, we will note an additional sticker but also a DDR IC:

After removing the top heatspreader, we will note the copper foil underneath:

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