Samsung offers impressive 6,700MB/s read and 2,700MB/s write speeds for just $80 if buyers opt for the 250GB base model. The 2TB version, however, is $100 more expensive than the Sabrent equivalent. Samsung has gone for aggressive pricing this time around, with the 1TB 980 Pro currently going for $200, just like its main rivals. The Samsung 980 Pro ( read our review) is nearly as fast as its competition, edging out the aforementioned Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus in our file copying tests. It's got the brand cachet and is no performance slouch either. The only comforting factor here is a MTBF (mean time between failures) of 1.6 million hours and Sabrent's 5-year warranty, which oddly enough, is only applicable if you register your drive and is otherwise fixed at just 1-year. The 4TB Rocket Plus offers a more generous 3,000 TBW rating and the massive 8TB drive goes to 6,000 TBW. Similarly, the 2TB Rocket 4 Plus is rated at 1,400 TBW, making it considerably less than the 3,600 TBW of the standard 2TB drive.

Despite both drives being TLC-based, Sabrent rates the Plus 1TB version at 700 TBW (terabytes written), which is less than half of the 1,800 TBW for the non-Plus drive. It's not a complete home run for Sabrent because in terms of endurance, the less capacious Rocket 4 Plus sees a noticeable downgrade compared to its predecessor. You'll need $700 for the 4TB version and a whopping $1,500 for the privilege of owning the biggest Rocket, but then your pockets are probably deep enough to afford a PCIe 4.0 motherboard and accompanying hardware that's required to take full advantage of this drive. On the plus side (geddit?), the newer drive is now offered in 4TB and up to 8TB capacities, allowing you to store massive game libraries, work files, and other stuff, all in one place. Like its predecessor, the value proposition of the Rocket 4 Plus remains unmatched, starting at $90 for the small 500GB version and $150 for the 1TB model. Although real-world testing sees it leapfrog competitors by the minutest of margins and vice versa, you get to keep the bragging rights with the Sabrent drive.

In our testing, this drive was able to get the closest to its class-leading, officially rated transfer speeds of 7,100 MB/s reads and 6,600 MB/s writes, making it the fastest consumer drive currently on the market. Sabrent gave the Rocket 4 a nice boost with the Plus model.

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