Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Storage on 3 August 2021 at 08:05 AM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 20 Comments.
Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus Linux Benchmarks
Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus Linux Benchmarks
Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus Linux Benchmarks

See how your own Linux storage performance compares to this system and set of drives by installing the Phoronix Test Suite and running phoronix-test-suite benchmark 2107233-IB-DBTEST44726 for your own fully-automated, side-by-side benchmark comparison.

Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus Linux Benchmarks

The performance of the drive now was largely in line with expectations aside from the random read performance coming in short of expectations.

Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus Linux Benchmarks

Whether looking at the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus or a different NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD, a heatsink is increasingly important with these modern drives to avoid thermal throttling. The heatsink used with the Rocket 4 Plus was Sabrent's Rocket NVMe heatsink, which does provide a noticeable difference to the operating drive temperature.

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