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The 4TB Rocket 4 Plus comes in a diminutive box with an image of the drive on the front along with the capacity, which is 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.
The drive is one of the best packaged we've seen to date including special editions of drives. It comes in a classy copper-coloured metal box, a really nice touch that from Sabrent.
The 4TB version of the Rocket 4 Plus is built on a dual-sided format. One side of the PCB holds the Phison PS5018-E18 controller, four 512GB packages of Micron 96-layer 3D TLC NAND and a 2GB SK hynix DDR4 DRAM IC. The other side holds another four 512GB NAND packages and another 2GB DRAM chip. To help keep the controller and the NAND packages next to it cool, Sabrent has used a product label that includes a copper heat spreader in its design. The other side of the drive just has a normal label covering the components.
The PS5018-E18 is an 8-channel controller built on a 12nm process using Triple ARM Cortex R5 CPU’s together with a pair of CoXProcessor’s. It has 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.
