A Closer Look
Like most M.2 drives, the Sabrent Rocket 5 is pretty unassuming, with a thermal sticker over the top, the PCB is protected, and the profile is kept exceptionally low. This is good, as dropping it into a laptop, console or motherboard should be easy enough.
The form factor is the most common 2280, so compatibility is going to be extremely high. Sabrent does make this drive as a bundle that comes with a heatsink. However, if you’re putting it on your motherboard that already has its own heatsink, it may be easier, and cheaper, to simply use the cooler you already have.
The drive comes with 2TB of NVMe storage, DDR4 RAM, and the latest Phison E26 controller, so it’s certainly well equipped, and it would need to be if it can hit the expected 14000 MB/s transfer speeds, practically double that of a PCIe 4.0 drive!
Overall, it seems Sabrent has kept things pretty predictable here, but again, this may look like most other M.2 drives, but it promises to be faster than most, so let’s get it on the test bench and see what it can do!
