'Crush' is not really a word I would use, except for the 'advertised' write speeds. And Sabrent dies not own Phison, last I knew, so it is not Sabrent actually doing the sandbagging here. They are only the first to take advantage. As to the fanbois.... Grow up. Only a fool (and a rich one at that) buys something because of its name.
Time will tell how this new controller works out. And if Phison was sitting on this controller for long, shame on them.
First, I'd like to see some independent benchmarks, say from Storage Review.
The 7000 read speeds must be the top speed you can wring out of PCIe 4 after overhead. It theoretically should be 8000 But that is being picky....
Fantasy time.... Imagine this controller on 4 2TB drives in RAID 0....