Sabrent Rocket 5 PCIe Gen5 2TB M.2 SSD Review
Peter Donnell / 5 months ago
The drive is rated for up to 14 GB/s transfer speeds, albeit the specifications don’t specify if that was read, write or both. However, as we can see, it just exceeds that with 14121 MB/s read, and a staggering 12167 write, making it one of the absolute fastest drives on the market right now. Even the Q1T1 test delivered speeds that exceeded that of any Gen4 drive would in the Q8T1 test.
IPS are massive, hitting around 250K as expected on the Q32T1 test, and match the relative speeds we saw in the previous test.
To put into perspective how fast this drive is, the Apacer Gen5 driver I reviewed yesterday scored 27704, and that is extremely high, but at 36331 the Sabrant blows that score to dust, this drive is FAST!
Write speeds are very responsive, getting to full speed at around 120KB, while the read speeds take a little time to get up to speed with larger files of 2MB and upwards, but at no time would I could the transfer speeds slow.
A very good score here too, showing extremely fast access times for read and write speeds, but I guess we already knew that would be the case.
And again that’s reflected in the IOPS with high scores in both read and write tests.
Copy speeds are exceptionally fast, with ISO, Program and Games tests all well under a second.
For high-resolution video recording, there are clearly no issues, with the drive being around 10x above what we would consider plenty!
Very consistent read speeds, with just a tiny drop in the write speeds as the drive waits for the CPU to compress, but as you can see, it got back to full speed almost instantly.
A fairly predictable “extremely high” score from Final Fantasy Endwalker benchmark, and I think it’s fair to point out that any game you load on this drive is going to be loading extremely quickly.
This is a very extreme performance drive, but even with our relentless benchmarking, it didn’t exceed 73c, which is really impressive. Personally, I’d be happy with that, but perhaps if you’re putting sustained loads on it for video rendering, a larger heatsink would be best to ensure you can maintain the performance for hours on end, but for typical gamers, it’s fine as it is.
