Amazon UK has discounted some of our favourite SSDs for gaming and content creation today. The Sabrent Rocket is an NVMe SSD, allowing it to vastly outperform older-style SATA SSDs, and the 256GB and 512GB models are 20 per cent off. That brings them to £40 and £64, respectively – truly excellent prices for drives of this calibre.
We already mentioned that the Rocket drives are faster than SATA models, and that’s true – SATA drives are limited to around 550MB/s for sequential reads and writes, while even entry-level NVMe drives like the WD Blue SN550 can achieve about four times that figure, around 2000MB/s. The Sabrent Rocket has a budget price – especially after today’s 20 per cent discount – but it’s actually a high performance drive that is closer to six times faster than a standard SATA model, with read speeds up to 3450MB/s and write speeds up to 2000MB/s.
That’s a ton of performance, and it translates into a faster PC: shorter boot times, faster game load times and improved responsiveness throughout.
Amazon UK has discounted some of our favourite SSDs for gaming and content creation today. The Sabrent Rocket is an NVMe SSD, allowing it to vastly outperform older-style SATA SSDs, and the 256GB and 512GB models are 20 per cent off. That brings them to £40 and £64, respectively – truly excellent prices for drives of this calibre.We already mentioned that the Rocket drives are faster than SATA models, and that’s true – SATA drives are limited to around 550MB/s for sequential reads and writes, while even entry-level NVMe drives like the WD Blue SN550 can achieve about four times that figure, around 2000MB/s. The Sabrent Rocket has a budget price – especially after today’s 20 per cent discount – but it’s actually a high performance drive that is closer to six times faster than a standard SATA model, with read speeds up to 3450MB/s and write speeds up to 2000MB/s. That’s a ton of performance, and it translates into a faster PC: shorter boot times, faster game load times and improved responsiveness throughout.Read moreEurogamer.net
