SABRENT 2TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD Extreme Performance Solid State Drive R/W 7100/6600MB/s (Latest Version) (SB-RKT4P-2TB)

Original review: I decided to grab this over the Samsung 980 Pro, because I wanted 2TB. Its quite fast, which is to be expected. Definitely highly recommended! Update 3/1/2021: Things arent going well at all. According to HWInfo64, Im down to 94% life remaining already, on a disk Ive only been using for just a couple of days over 3 months. For comparison, the 970 Pro I replaced with this Sabrent disk had been in use for over a year (from August 2019), and it still shows 99% life remaining. Usage is exactly the same, etc. FYI, both disks were the 2TB model. Of course, I understand the 970 Pro is MLC vs TLC on the Sabrent (and 980 Pro), but still - this is a substantial trade-off. This gives me a total life remaining of somewhere around 4 years - but I expect that I would likely see some signs of degradation long before that. Its also tough to find anywhere that Sabrent has documented the TBW lifetime of this drive, and I suspect that could be due to a less-than-impressive result. For comparison, the 980 Pro has an endurance rating of 1200TBW. If that disk was at 94% life remaining, that would mean that you have written 47TB to disk. Ive written 16TB, which is admittedly a lot for 3 months - and Im not even sure how Ive done that, since activity has been somewhat minimal - but that same TBW would only equate to around 1.33% of the life of the Samsung, rather than 6% of the life of the Sabrent. So, by that measure, the Sabrent seems to have roughly 1/4 the data endurance of the Samsung 980 Pro, meaning the endurance of this drive is only around 300TBW! This is HALF of the endurance of even Samsungs QLC offering in the same 2TB size, and not even on-par with the 1TB QLC offering. The moral of the story is, yes - this drive is absolutely the best performance offering right now, but that slim margin definitely comes at a substantial cost to the endurance of the drive. Its still a good disk, and Ive experienced no issues at all with it, but definitely do take that into consideration when youre making your decision on which way to go. Personally, if I had known how bad the endurance would be, I would have opted for the 980 Pro, and taken the marginal hit on performance. For others, though, its performance above all else, and I completely understand and respect that decision. Good luck!

Now i do not overheat. This fixed my ps5 problem. Do not fall in the fan trap none of the addons worked. Buy this if you are overheating. I never heard of this until my problem but thank goodness now i can play this expensive console. playstation if you’re listening, you should build your product with heat shield in it

... the goodness. Reliable, reputable and works as advertised. Not some knock off brand, high IOPS, what else could you ask for besides maybe an extra discount (which of course wasnt available at checkout) ? AAA++ get this drive, top 5 on market right now. #worthy

For anyone that owns a PS5, I cant recommend this enough!! I was looking at a bunch of different heatsinks for a while trying to find some that fit with the PS5 without affecting the stock SSD cover (which many heatsinks do). It seems like there are so many heatsinks that cause problems but this one is perfect! It not only functions as a heatsink for the m.2 SSD but it also replaces the stock SSD cover on the PS5. This is a great feature, so you get best of both worlds, and dont have to worry about whether or not the heatsink will fit. Not to mention, Sabrent has always been a very reliable brand that makes quality products. Ive been purchasing many electronics, accessories, and things of that nature from Sabrent over the years, and they always seem to have a solid amount of quality with their products!

Pair this heatsink with the m.2 of your choice (I used a Samsung 980 Pro 1TB) and your PS5 will thank you. The heatsink is designed to be a perfect fit for the PS5 and replaces the stock metal cover that comes with the console. With other standard heatsinks like you would use in a PC, such as the rectangular one that you can get with the Samsung 980 Pro, you will either have problems getting them to fit or have a gap around the space where the m.2 goes. This heatsink is form-fitted to secure itself to the ssd and also replace the metal cover. This puts the top of the heatsink right up near where the console fan can suck hot air away from it. Its a smart design and it looks very nice and flush with the plastic chassis of the console. Installation is simple, just MAKE SURE to remove the standoff and move it to whichever hole lines up with the correct size of m.2 you bought. It is a silver metal looking washer and it doesnt necessarily pop out automatically so you may think that it is a non-removable part. Just pop it up and then use it with the screw to secure down your memory. This will ensure that the heatsink makes good contact with it. I recommend this heatsink 100%.

100% Recommend. Just arrived and installed this evening. I had been keeping my eye out for its release ever since reading about it. It just happened that I checked on Thanksgiving day and it was suddenly available. Not only was it available but it was the same price as the normal Rocket 4 drive ($199 for the 1TB) and was 30 bucks less than the competing Samsung 980 Pro. So I spent the difference on the available Sabrent NVME heatsink ($24) available on Amazon (if you are going to use one of these drives, you really should have some sort of heatsink to get optimal performance). Cloning my system drive was simple. Sabrent provides a version of Acronis but most any of the other popular tools would have worked as well. Reboot and done. As soon as I powered my machine back on from install, I noticed that seconds had been shaved off of boot time. It went from power off to Windows loading spinning and to a login prompt in less than 15 seconds. I had been using a Sabrent Rocket gen3 in that slot previously and it performed well but this another level. I checked the health and made sure all was good with Sabrents Rocket Control Center and once everything looked good I ran my first benchmark (crop of the results above). It is simply crazy fast. It really has made a noticeable difference in apps opening and loading, large video files open nearly instantly and my next test will be VM performance but wanted to write this for anyone on the fence. While I agreed with the argument that PICE 4 Gen 4 drives would likely NOT really make a huge difference over a fast gen 3 drive, this new line of superfast Sabrents, 980 Pros, WD sn850 drives ABOSULTELY offer real world differences in usability and performance. Coupled with the heatsink, at idle it runs 32C and under load has never broken 39C. As an aside, to see performance like this, you must install it in a PCie 4.0 compatible M.2 slot and most of these are currently found only on AMD x570 motherboards. Even on boards with 2 m.2 slots, make sure you choose one that is connected to the 4.0 BUS. Often, this is the slot closest to the CPU socket. More boards are coming with 2 m.2 slots and in many cases only one is PCIE 4.0. It will run in other slots but you will not see the speeds advertised. I have been working with PCs and in IT since before the days of PATA 33 drives and always kept wondering when we would see the days of instant boot times. Well, with this generation of drives, we are getting awfully close. Finally.

I honestly dont know how well the heat dissipation is. But the fitment is oem like. From what I can tell the contact patch should touch the nvme and the cover being the the piece that will draw heat should offer ventilation and not trap the heat.

The transfer speeds are ridiculously amazing with this bad boy. I highly recommend grabbing a heatsink for it though. Make sure you find the proper fitting one for your laptop or desktop. Without a heatsink, the temps increase pretty quickly and redline during large transfers. This causes your PC to spit out hardrive health notifications. I ended up getting a heatsink but still use apps to monitor the health and temps during transfers.

Very fast as a boot drive.Exchanged it for a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB drive which was slowing down, running at half its rated speed after 1.5 years of operation.

I first put this into my MOB that was only Able to get Gen 3 speeds and I did not think I would see a difference being that this is Gen 4. Boy was I wrong. Much snappier response time getting in and out of programs transferring files from USB were a little quicker. Loading the OS was a little quicker to. It also runs Cooler then any of my other drives by about 5-7C the average Idle Temp was 25-27C In a desktop anyway. Later I put the drive in a Gen 4 MOB. Loading Windows was incredibly fast. Boot up to Desktop was 2-3 seconds faster then Gen 3 and shut down time was about twice as Quick. Overall for 72$ when it was on sale for a 500 GB you can’t go wrong. The only downside is it uses a little more power then other drives I would feel better putting this in a desktop rather then a laptop due to the power consumption. The thin heat spreader seems to do a good job keeping the drive cool most the time but when you stress it the temp goes up a bit but has never thermal throttled on me. It does run a little hotter then some other Gen 4 drives when stressed but nothing to be concerned about. UPDATE: after using the drive for 4 months it still holds up and after testing several other Gen 4 drives including the Kingston KC3000, WD SN770 and Hynix P41 the Sabrent has the fastest boot to windows 10 by an entire 3 seconds and also slightly less shutdown time. The only downside is endurance. After writing 3.5 TB the drive went to 99% and if you don’t have a fan in your PC cooing the drive it does get hotter then others but other then that seems just as fast and faster in some ways as even higher end drives.