
The performance is so close that it makes the Sabrent SSD the sensible choice if you don't need the absolute best performance around. Impressive stuff.Īn important factor here is that the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus is the cheapest of these second-generation drives. Even so, you're looking at AS SSD hitting 5,868MB/s for reads and 5,630MB/s for writes. Real-world performance didn't always tell the same story, although the differences between these top three drives can be slight. In testing, this performance was born out too, with the faster write performance dominating Samsung's drive in the write tests.


Offering peak reads of 7,100MB/s and writes of 6,600MB/s, it's not only a major step up from the first generation of PCIe 4.0 drives but a notable improvement over the Samsung 980 Pro, especially in terms of write performance. The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus is the first drive in the lab to use the new Phison E18 controller, which is the follow-up to the immensely popular Phison E16 controller found in basically every first-gen PCIe 4.0 drive.
