Today we take a look at another Gen.4 PCIe SSD which allows us to take performance to a whole new level. While the impressive performance is limited to the latest AMD system so far, there are a lot of people with those systems. Today it is the Rocket 4.0 from Sabrent with a capacity of 1TB that I have on the test bench.

The Rocket 4.0 starts out as a basic drive as we’ve seen so many. It is a standard NVMe 1.3 compliant M.2 drive with a 2280 form factor. As such, it will fit into most modern systems. But it isn’t a classic PCIe 3.0 drive like the ones I’ve been testing the last couple of years, this is one of the new PCIe 4.0 drives. This allows the drive to deliver better performance thanks to more bandwidth being available.