THE SSD to the PCI Gen 5 standard continue to break records. Sabrent proposes to make everyone agree.
While some manufacturers have already been marketing their first PCIe Gen 5 SSDs for several months, it is interesting to see their work continuing, for ever higher performance.
14 Gb/s in sight
Thus, at Clubic, we have already had the opportunity to test the Crucial T700, and other models such as the Seagate Firecuda 540 are being evaluated.
Unlike Crucial or Seagate, but also Corsair or lesser known brands, in Japan for example, Sabrent has decided to play it low profile. For several months now, we’ve known that the company has been working on the Rocket X5, its first PCI Express Gen 5 NVMe SSD, but it doesn’t seem ready yet.
Last March, through a formal press release, Sabrent presented its first results on the Rocket X5. It was then a question of just over 12 GB / s in sequential reading.
Capacity change
Sabrent wanted and knew it could do much better with the potential of today’s components. The company therefore gave no details as to the release date of its first NVMe PCIe Gen 5 SSD.
We now understand why. Relayed by VideoCardz, the most recent throughput measurements recorded on CrystalDiskMark illustrate how hard Sabrent engineers have worked. Today we are talking about almost 14 GB / s, still in sequential read, and about 16% higher speeds in random write, at 448 MB / s.
Unquestionably, Sabrent is doing better than most of its competitors that have actually launched a product on the market. It also does better than in the tests presented in March, but we must not forget that at the time, the test SSD was a 1 TB model, when today it is a question of a 2 TB.
We know that thanks in particular to the parallel writing/reading on several chips, the 2 TB models are generally more efficient than the 1 TB ones. It will therefore be necessary to wait for the actual release of the Sabrent SSD… especially since the company still does not communicate any date.
Source : VideoCardz
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