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The Rocket 4 Plus comes in a diminutive box which weighs a lot more than you'd expect. The front of the box has an image of the drive with the capacity displayed in the bottom right-hand corner. The rear of the box carries a different view of the drive along with the drive's product number.
Once opened the reason for the weight becomes obvious, the drive itself comes packed in a classy copper-coloured metal box, a really nice touch that from Sabrent.
Built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format, the 1TB Rocket 4 Plus uses four packages of Micron B27B 96-layer 3D TLC NAND which sit alongside the Phison PS5018-E18 controller and a single SK Hynix DDR4 DRAM IC. To help keep the components cool they sit under a copper heat spreader label.
The PS5018-E18 is an 8-channel controller built on a 12nm process using Triple ARM Cortex R5 CPU's with CoXProcessor Technology with an interface speed of up to 1,600MT/s per channel and it supports the latest NVMe 1.4 specifications. The E18 supports Phison's 4th Gen LDPC engine and comes with End-To-End Data Path Protection. It supports AES 128/256bit hardware encryption and TCG & Opal 2.0, Pyrite, Sanitize and Crypto Erase technologies.
Sabrent's SSD management software goes by the name Rocket Control Panel. It has a fancy, easy to use GUI and it allows you to all the usual things like checking the drive's health and updating the firmware. It also has a link to download a copy of Acronis True Image for Sabrent.
