Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2023-02-12
Thanks to the newly supported USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 standard, the Rocket Nano V2 performs admirably regarding both reads and writes. The sustained writes, even if not exceeding 1GB/s are higher with about 200MB/s versus the V1 and the chassis does get barely get warm during intensive use.
The test system did incorporate a AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-core CPU, a Sabrent Rocket 2x16GB DDR5 4800MHz C40 memory kit, a PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 5700 video card but also a Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 2TB SSD; all these were connected to the BIOSTAR X670E VALKYRIE AM5 motherboard. As a power supply we have chosen a Cooler Master 850W non-modular and the system was running the latest Windows 11 OS build as well.
The drive has arrived pre-formatted exFAT:
We did format it back to NTFS just before starting testing:
With the help of AIDA64, we could extract more information regarding the drive; not a lot of info is available due to presence of a pass-through (bridge) chip:
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