Sabrent’s Rocket 5 M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSD features speedy new Phison controller

Sabrent has recently launched its newest M.2 NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD, the Rocket 5. The new SSD naturally comes in the M.2-2280 form factor and is available as a bare drive with up to 4TB of storage. Better yet, it is equipped with a new Phison controller, enabling even faster speeds. 

The new Rocket 5 series is powered by the Phison PS5026-E26 Maximum controller, Micron B58R 232-layer 3D NAND flash memory, and an LPDDR4-based DRAM cache. The Rocket 5 comes in three different storage capacities: 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB.

Sabrent claims that the Phison controller on the SSD allows for the drive to achieve sequential read and write rates of up to 14 GB/s and 12 GB/s, respectively. The drive can also support 4K random reads and writes up to 1.55 million and 1.8 million IOPS, respectively.

Rocket 5 SSD variants with a heatsink equipped with a 20mm fan, two copper heat pipes, and a small fin stack will be available at a later date. Sabrent is currently running a “promotion” of the new Rocket 5 series, putting the 4TB model in the Rocket 5 series at $730 (down from $900), the 2TB model at $340 (down from $440), and the 1TB model at $190 (down from $270).

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KitGuru says: The PCIe 5.0 SSD landscape is getting fiercer and will continue to do so in the coming months as more SSDs with 14 GB/s speeds emerge.

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