This 4TB PCIe SSD can make your Windows laptop feel more like a MacBook Pro
Assuming you have a compatible laptop, that is
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TheAppleMacBook Pro 16 still holds bragging rights when it comes to the maximum storage capacity available in a traditional portable laptop.
Apple uses a proprietary approach, plugging memory chips directly into the motherboard to reach a whopping 8TB of storage, while only a handful of vendors even offer 4TB PCIe SSDs.
Sabrent Rocket 4TB PCIe SSD - $849.99 from Amazon(roughly £690/AU$1335)Double up on this comparatively affordable 4TB SSD from Sabrent, to create a Windows laptop to rival the Apple Macbook Pro - at least where storage capacity is concerned.
OWC has recently joined Sabrent as only the second consumer vendor to offer a 4TB NVMe PCIe M2.2280 SSD. OWC’s Aurora P12 costs $1,149.88, while Sabrent’s offering, known as Rocket, is availablefor only $849.99 fromAmazon(roughly £690/AU$1335).
Why does that matter? Well, because you can plug two into a Windows laptop to match the MacBook Pro’s 8TB capacity.
Unfortunately, Amazon does not deliver globally, so international customers may have to use a specialist parcel forwarding service if they want to take advantage of the deal.
There’s only one laptop vendor worldwide (Eurocom), to our knowledge, that bundles its laptops with these 4TB drives - and they’re neither as cheap nor as portable as Apple’s slim-and-thin mobile workstation.
Apple charges $6,099 for the very top of the range16-inch MacBook Pro,whileDellhas, unfortunately, stopped pushing 2TB PCI NVMe SSD with its 64GBXPS 15 laptop.
Have you managed to get hold of a cheaper product with equivalent specifications, in stock and brand new? Let us know and we’ll tip our hat to you.
As for the Sabrent Rocket, it is an x4 model that comes bundled with the Acronis True Image software, Toshiba’s BICS3 flash and Sabrent’s own RKT303 controller. Its performance speeds can reach up to 3450 MB/s (read) and 3000 MB/s (write).
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Just bear in mind, this is a Gen 3 rather than a Gen 4SSD.
Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled inwebsite buildersandweb hostingwhen DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.
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