Review on 💨 Sabrent Rocket XTRM-Q 2TB Thunderbolt 3 External SSD, up to 2700 MB/s in Thunderbolt 3 Mode or up to 900 MB/s in USB 3.2 Mode (SB-XTMQ-2TB) by Ben Demers

Had to return it, almost arrived but not yet. I like what Sabrent is trying to achieve. But after testing on Blackmagic Disk Test. Read speed 1800 Mb/s, write speed 2600 Mb/s. But when used as an edit/empty drive it was inconsistent. Running the drive test in edit/idle mode returned only 740MB/s read and 450MB/s write, both when editing via fcp and when the drive was just idle. Not sure if this is a safe mode to keep the drive cool or if my block was just bad (block gets very hot). Still, I'd rather use my Samsung T7 drive, which is reliable at transfer, processing, and idle speeds of 850MB/s and 900MB/s (740 read and 450 write speeds, sabrent xtrm-q isn't worth it and do worried about driving a few more). Until there are stable speeds of 1800 MB/s and 2600 MB/s in idle and when editing, I will refrain from it. I hope this review helps someone, the Sabrent does great things at a high cost of performance, but it's just not perfected yet, can't hit it hard because other TB3 drives cost twice as much.