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The Rocket 2230 supports ASPM if the platform does. It idles at 2.5mW in laptops.

As much as we would like to include more 2230 drives, there aren't many available in retail atm. Most are used, second-hand devices without any factory warranty. Unfortunately, the SN530 isn't a retail drive and it wasn't sampled to us for review, so we don't have a sample to compare to on hand...

Power and heat depend on workload, system, and how the system is configured. Power consumption is higher in sustained write workloads. Some drives hit 8-9W in our copy test in this review, which in some laptops will result in the drive going offline because on some, the M.2 slot can only provide...

Our reviews are NOT sponsored by anyone. The best is not simply decided by what drive delivers the highest sequential. In general user experience, 4K random and fast cache recovery matter the most, but there are still many other aspects that weigh into evalutation. Efficiency metrics matter for...

A few reasons. Differences you see between scores in different reviews are due to either a new test system being used or different data/benchmark/testing methodology being compared (change from iometer to CDM for synthetic metrics for example). You need to see which test platform is being used...

Dropped 9-12C on my 12900K under load with this frame vs stock on my chip

Your SanDisk X400 is a SATA drive as Maxxify stated. That SSD is incompatible with that Sabrent cloner. The EC-SSD2 only supports M.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs. It says so on their website: https://sabrent.com/products/ec-ssd2

ATTO 4.01.0f1, testing at a QD of 1, not QD4 as it is set to by default. - We're going to be replacing ATTO with CDM or something soon.

Most Phison controller-equipped SSDs are typically manufactured through Phison/their production partners in order to have some sort of warranty. They also hardly vary in fw changes. PNY, Inland, Corsair, Silicon Power Sabrent, Addlink, etc, are all selling what are essentially the same drives...

We are currently using CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4.

Yes, I agree that this drive is not for the average consumer, and this is the mindset of the big manufacturer such as Samsung, WD and Crucial. However, it’s a very hot item for prosumers and content creators. Demand is there and Sabrent seems to be the only one answering it. I’d love an 8TB 980...

Are you sure you’re not confusing QLC and TLC? All modern consumer SSDs use a form of dynamic pSLC caching. MLC isn’t in production and SLC is either very expensive or QLC in full SLC mode. They have had Rocket 4 Plus capacities ranging from 500GB-4TB since before the release of this 8TB model...

Hi, I reviewed the WD long before the KC3000 ever existed. The review is reflective of it’s time. Phison SSDs are very power hungry. If you want a SSD for laptops get a Samsung 980 pro, WD Black SN850, or if you don’t mind a little slower in some regard, the WD Black SN770 and SK hynix Gold P31...

We already have. If you can take another look, it’s the last chart in the power section gallery. Consumption is shown in milliwatts.

For lower power consumption figures ASPM needs to be enabled in the UEFI. Not all systems support toggling this in the UEFI. Therefore, we test power consumption with ASPM disabled on our latest test benches. Additionally, the lowest desktop idle idle state data, while important, isn’t as...