Sabrent Launches New Rocket PCIe Gen 4 SSDs Aimed at Gamers

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Sabrent has expanded its lineup of Rocket-branded SSDs with new options aimed at gamers.

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[Niner51]

Looks good, but that 4TB at $700 is just wow. I'll stick to my T-Force drive a while longer.

 

[Grimlakin]

Looks good, but that 4TB at $700 is just wow. I'll stick to my T-Force drive a while longer.

Just a straight up double of the 2tb really. So more profit built in unless they have a controller twice he size too..

 

[GunShot]

I've always considered Sabrent to be the generic budget brand for our storage needs but looking at their latest price tags (up into the thousands ), someone must have told them... wrong and Sabrent believed them and they need to charge an Apple tax now, eh?! Good luck with that.

 

[Zarathustra]

Wait, who was the existing Rocket 4.0 series aimed at?

Based on my experience (and many others) of sudden failure, I wouldn't put anything important on a Sabrent drive.

It should suffice for a steam drive though, as all of that content is instantly replaceable by re-downloading.

 

[Zarathustra]

Looks good, but that 4TB at $700 is just wow. I'll stick to my T-Force drive a while longer.

I'm just trying to figure out what other 4TB m.2 drives are on the market. Granted I haven't kept up lately, but last time I checked, I couldn't find any M.2 drives larger than 2TB. Could this just be a "we crammed lots of storage on to one drive" tax?

As long as it isn't a QLC drive, it might actually have a lot of money in NAND in it.

 

[Zarathustra]

Just a straight up double of the 2tb really. So more profit built in unless they have a controller twice he size too..

Yeah, but usually the largest SSD's carry price premiums. At least that's how I remember it.

Probably because it is trickier to fit it all on a single m.2 stick. That, and if - like many systems out there - you only have one m.2 slot, you don't have much of a choice if you want more storage...

 

[Brian_B]

Yeah, but usually the largest SSD's carry price premiums. At least that's how I remember it.

Probably because it is trickier to fit it all on a single m.2 stick. That, and if - like many systems out there - you only have one m.2 slot, you don't have much of a choice if you want more storage...

This is my thought too -- density, speed, and/or efficiency carry premiums.

 

[hubaduba]

I'll care about 7000MB/sec SSDs when Direct Storage actually exists. So far it's vaporware.

 

[LazyGamer]

I'll care about 7000MB/sec SSDs when Direct Storage actually exists. So far it's vaporware.

I assume it'll get here - like many things, it seems inevitable to me because it answers a problem that has existed forever, that being the limitation of streaming assets for rendering at scale.

And since it exists on consoles, it's really just a critical mass sort of thing.

Also, I think you're good on waiting. Outside of something like Direct Storage, there's really very little utility for desktop users with these PCIe 4.0 SSDs.

 

[Brian_B]

I assume it'll get here - like many things, it seems inevitable to me because it answers a problem that has existed forever, that being the limitation of streaming assets for rendering at scale.

And since it exists on consoles, it's really just a critical mass sort of thing.

I'm not convinced it will have any sort of meaningful impact.

Maybe it'll prove me wrong, but I think a handful of big games will get paid some money to implement it, so they can show the logo off and get some high profile use out there.... and then after the buzz dies off it'll just kinda exist but not be worth the hassle of implementation.

Once you get to PCI 5 drives and 16+ core CPUs and such - really... how much is this going to shave off from that?

 

[Grimlakin]

I'm not convinced it will have any sort of meaningful impact.

Maybe it'll prove me wrong, but I think a handful of big games will get paid some money to implement it, so they can show the logo off and get some high profile use out there.... and then after the buzz dies off it'll just kinda exist but not be worth the hassle of implementation.

Once you get to PCI 5 drives and 16+ core CPUs and such - really... how much is this going to shave off from that?

It isn't about bandwidth. It's about latency... (ok and bandwidth some) The real benefit of direct storage is out of order data requests from storage without the CPU having to deal with it. As long as you have the bandwidth to support it you are removing hops and that removes latency.

 

[LazyGamer]

I'm not convinced it will have any sort of meaningful impact.

Maybe it'll prove me wrong, but I think a handful of big games will get paid some money to implement it, so they can show the logo off and get some high profile use out there.... and then after the buzz dies off it'll just kinda exist but not be worth the hassle of implementation.

Once you get to PCI 5 drives and 16+ core CPUs and such - really... how much is this going to shave off from that?

My expectation is that it will be implemented the way that console games are using it - streaming assets that could not fit in main memory or VRAM.

The problem with it is that, as you said, if it's not used for such steaming - which will require the feature - then I don't see much of an advantage either.