Sabrent is a brand that is slowly making its way into the SSD world thanks to good prices and competitive performance. For this reason, high-end brands such as CORSAIR have had to adapt to these new times where they also compete at the bottom and have launched products such as the aforementioned MP600 Core. So to discern which is better or more complete, we are going to get to know them inside out.
Sabrent Rocket Q4 vs CORSAIR MP600 Core 1 TB, an equal fight?
As expected, we are in the fight for the low end of PCIe 4.0 SSDs, the last of the last to achieve the best performance / price / technology ratio. So the Sabrent Q4 is logically an SSD NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen4 x4
Another of the similarities of these two models is the manufacturing technology of their NAND Flash: QLC 3DIn other words, we are dealing with 4-bit and latest generation cells, where each will have opted for a different supplier to maximize prices.
They also share a form factor, such as the M.2 2280, so we are faced with SSDs with a length of 80mm, nothing that no current motherboard can support. But if there is something important in a currently powerful SSD, it is the problem of temperatures, where the differences begin precisely.
The dreaded Thermalthrottling could make a scene in one of the two
All M.2 NVMe SSDs have a little temperature problem, in some cases a big problem. And it is that the compression of the performance implies that the degrees start to go up and after 60 degrees this same performance starts to go down.
For this reason, CORSAIR has equipped this MP600 CORE with an aluminum heat sink so that said SSD does not have thermal throttling issues and can instead maintain long-lasting performance.
On the other hand, Sabrent doesn’t include any heat sink for its Rocket Q4, but it also warns that said SSD requires a heat sink to maintain speed and avoid throttling. It won’t be a problem if our motherboard includes it as standard, but less optimized or cheap models might not include it and then it will be a real problem.
At this point, you should know that in operation CORSAIR claims that its SSD can reach up to 70 degrees, 85 ºC if we are talking about keeping the data outside the PC, but Sabrent does not specify anything on this subject.
What is stronger and lasts longer?
Again, we have to resort to the data provided by the manufacturers, as the durability tests would be so long that no one actually does them. In this case, the MP600 CORE has an MTBF of 1,800,000 hours or a TBW of 225, while the Rocket Q4 makes no mention of this setting, which is curious because it’s really important for those who will be using the SSD for several hours a day.
So we can’t compare here because there is a lack of information on the Sabrent, but as soon as it is close to CORSAIR we will have SSDs in both cases for years and years.
Technologies added on both SSDs
This is another one of those sections where one of the two contenders lacks information, and a lot. In this case, Sabrent offers much more detail, since your Rocket Q4 takes care of the power management. APST / ASPM and L1.2, SMART, TRIM, ONFi 2.3, ONFi 3.0, ONFi 3.2 and ONFi 4.0, although it does not curiously specify the level of data security.
Instead, the CORSAIR MP600 CORE only specifies this last encryption parameter (256-bit AES), but none compared to the rest of the technologies and the support, something really very curious and which can be useful in different cases.
Even with the same NAND Flash technology, do they work the same?
Surely that’s the million dollar question, does even having QLC work the same? Well no, among other things because they do not carry the same controller or the NAND Flash are from the same manufacturer. In the case of the CORSAIR MP600 CORE, we have 480K read and 200K write IOPS and although Sabrent does not give either of those two (really important) values, it does offer the sequential performance data in MB / s.
The 1TB Sabrent Rocket Q4 achieves a throughput of 4700 MB / s in sequential reading and 1,800 MB / s in sequential writing, while CORSAIR achieves similar numbers with 4700 MB / s and some more acceptable 1950 MB / s in sequential writing.
Considering the PCIe 4.0 interface, these are definitely low numbers, especially when compared with their capable big brothers, but we are in the fight for the best performance / price / capacity, and as such, they are two great rivals without a doubt.
Which SSD is ultimately the best?
No doubt the CORSAIR MP600 CORE 1TB, because although the brand has to specify all specs as such and does not, in terms of performance it is above the Sabrent, it has a completely standard heat sink (which can be removed if you need it) and above all and above all: it’s cheaper.
In short, we are faced with a product with the three B’s as they say, so there is not much to think about here unless the brands correct the errors we have commented on for the sake of users and professionals who wish to purchase one of their devices. high performance.
Even so, another of the sections that are rarely mentioned as a rule is availability and marketing. CORSAIR is present in almost every country in the world, while Sabrent is catching on, so in terms of unit delivery the MP600 CORE could have a big advantage in this area.
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