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

I bought this primarily for regular full disk image backups for my Asus laptop, hoping for a faster alternative to the My Passport 4GB USB hard drive by Western Digital. I'm not disappointed. I ran some basic tests on real applications to show the speed advantage over a hard drive. I tested first by making a full copy of my 112.7GB Linux hard drive, first from a USB hard drive and then from a Sabrent Rocket Pro NVME USB stick. The hard drive took 19 minutes 30 seconds, while the Sabrent Rock Pro hard drive took just 7 minutes 30 seconds. Pretty good. Then I made a full backup of the same image. Disk with Clonezilla with compression enabled, again first with a USB stick, 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-C Gen 2 (10 GiB/s throughput) and one USB 3.0 port, so I tested the Sabrent Rocket Pro with both USB 3.1 and USB 3.1. USB-C ports to see if the transfer speed could be faster on a USB-C port but there was no difference as you can see from the numbers. I already knew that a USB 3.0 port would only have half the bandwidth of a USB 3.1 port. Ports so remember if you use this and come away frustrated you won't get the numbers I have. This is even more true if you only have much slower USB 2.0 ports, so keep that in mind as well. Others have mentioned that the drive's packaging is excellent, consisting of a nice aluminum shell with a matching lid that nicely covers the drive itself and both closed cell foam cables with matching notches for padding. There's no point throwing it away as storage for the drive and cables between uses. It's also worth noting that, unlike the photos on this product, it doesn't come with a USB-C/USB-A adapter and a USB-C/USB -Adapter gives -C cables, but two separate cables, one USB-C/USB-C and one 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 for easy positioning of the drive during use, but not so long as to be unwieldy or is slow reduce transfer speeds. The drive itself is surprisingly heavy, consisting of a fairly thick-walled aluminum casing that both holds the NVME drive inside and acts as a heat shield, all less than half the size of my typical 4GB USB-powered Western Digital My Passport Hard disk. The heatsink properties seem to work well to evenly distribute heat dissipation. So far I'm impressed with this drive after a few backups and expect to see widespread use for some time to come.