With the Rocket Q Battleship SSD array, Sabrent shows what is possible with the latest SSD technology: Sabrent accommodates eight M.2 SSDs with eight TB capacity each on a PCIe plug-in card, creating a data carrier with a total of 64 TB of storage space.
Introduction via Twitter
There is no official product announcement at this time. The manufacturer has only shared a shot of the data carrier on Twitter. According to this, eight M.2 SSDs of the Rocket Q type are used. The Rocket Q is one of the first SSDs that accommodated eight TB in the M.2 format. It works with the PCIe 3.0 standard. However, the Raid controller that is used already supports the twice as fast PCIe 4.0 standard.
It is highly probable that a lot can be expected from the new data carrier in terms of speed, also in view of the tests with similar setups carried out by Sabrent in the run-up: The manufacturer had demonstrated the potential of such data carriers by connecting eight SSDs from Samsung (980 Pro). Speeds of up to 28 GB per second were achieved with PCIe 4.0 in CrystalDiskMark. For comparison: A single 980 Pro from Samsung achieves peak transfer rates of seven GB per second. The fact that the eight-fold performance was not simply achieved is, among other things, due to the limiting effect of the adapter’s interface: A maximum of 32 GB speeds are possible with PCIe-4.0. In addition, there is the protocol overhead, which causes further performance losses. Nevertheless, the demonstration was quite impressive overall and also gives reason to expect a lot for the now presented combination of four Sabrent SSDs.
