Review on 💨 The Ultimate Speed and Durability: Sabrent Rocket Pro 1TB USB 3.1 External Aluminum SSD (SB-1TB-PRO) by Paul Sanchez

I bought this primarily for regular backups of full disk images for my Asus laptop, hoping for a faster alternative to Western Digital's My Passport 4GB USB hard drive. I am not disappointed. Benchmark tests with real applications to show the speed advantage over a hard drive. I tested first by making a full copy of my 112.7GB Linux drive, first with a USB hard drive, then with a Sabrent Rocket Pro USB. NVME disk. The hard drive took 19 minutes 30 seconds, while the Sabrent Rock Pro drive took just 7 minutes 30 seconds. Pretty good. I then made a full image backup of the same drive using Clonezilla with compression enabled, again first with a USB hard drive, then with a Sabrent Rocket Pro. Average transfer rate with HDD: 9.64 GB per minute. Average transfer rate with Sabrent Rocket Pro: 15.54 GB per minute. My laptop has three USB 3.1 ports, one USB port. - With gen 2 (10 GiB/s bandwidth) and a USB 3.0 port, so I tested the Sabrent Rocket Pro with both the USB 3.1 and USB-C ports to see if the transfer speed on the USB-C -connection could be faster but there was no difference as the numbers show. I already knew that a USB 3.0 port would only have half the bandwidth of USB 3.1 ports. So keep that in mind when using this one and walk away disappointed that you don't get the numbers I did get. This is even more true if you only have much slower USB 2.0 ports, so keep that in mind as well. matching cover that nicely covers the drive itself and both closed cell foam cables with matching notches for cushioning. The packaging is so good that there's no point in throwing it away as it's great for storing the drive and cables between uses. It's also worth mentioning that, unlike the photos of this product, there is no USB-C/USB-A adapter and USB-C/USB-C cable, but two separate cables, a USB-C/USB-C and a USB-C /USB-A, which is better anyway. The cables themselves are of excellent construction, with strong conductors and well-made connectors, ranging in length from six inches to a foot, long enough to easily position the drive during use but not so long as to be unwieldy. or affect the data transfer rate. The drive itself is surprisingly heavy, consisting of a fairly thick-walled aluminum case that both houses an NVME drive and acts as a heat shield, all less than half the size of my Western Digital. Regular My Passport 4GB USB powered hard drive. When the drive is used to transfer large amounts of data (more than 300GB continuous backup), the drive only gets moderately hot, so the heatsink properties seem to work well to disperse the heat evenly. gone, after a few backups I'm impressed with this drive and I expect it will be of much use for some time to come.