CONCLUSION

   Sabrent is a name I’ve known for a couple of years now so I was always interested to see what they were up to as an SSD manufacturer. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes long for any cooperation to form but after testing their Rocket Q 2TB M.2 NVMe model I believe it was well worth the wait. Of course, as you can all tell the Rocket Q is almost identical to the UD70 line by Silicon Power (minus probably some firmware differences) so it goes to reason that both drives would perform similarly (and they do exchange blows). This of course isn’t a bad thing since these are very fast drives, only downside is their performance after long periods of time (12 hour test) but you can’t have everything with QLC (and my guess is that professionals who really need something like that will look at other models). Still the Rocket Q did better compared to the UD70 (especially in the mixed test where it surpassed every other SSD in the charts), probably due to its copper sticker which did help slightly with temperatures. Also, as you’ve seen I decided to scrap the i7-6700 test rig from this review and onwards. This was mainly due to 2 factors, first that after 6 SSD tests the difference in read & write performance between these two systems (6700/7980XE) didn’t exceed 6% and second because I’m almost finished building a Core i9-10900k test rig. To put things simple, I have no room in the lab for more test rigs (5 is the maximum number) so I had to scrap one and the i7-6700 was the obvious choice since I only had it for M.2 NVMe reviews.

   Currently retailing for USD219.98 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and for 286.97Euros inside the EU (Amazon.de) the Rocket Q 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD by Sabrent is priced just a tad higher than expected. Price aside however numbers don’t lie so the Rocket Q 2TB is a very fast SSD which is definitely worth your attention and since it delivers on everything Sabrent markets it for it gets the Golden Award.

PROS

- Among the Fastest Gen3x4 Models in The Market Today (Up To 3400MB/s Read & 3000MB/s Write)
- Top Of The Charts Mixed SNIA Performance Levels
- 1.8 Million Hours MTBF
- Available Capacities (Up To 8TB)
- 5 Year Limited Warranty
- Limited Thermal Throttling (Copper Sticker - Compared To Other Models)

CONS

- Price (For Some)