SABRENT 512GB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD High Performance Solid State Drive (SB-ROCKET-512)

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I have read many reviews about this product as I was planning on replacing an existing SSD which was slower and smaller. While most agree on the speed of the drive, it became a general concern that you cannot directly clone a drive thats 512 byte logic sector with this drive thats 4K. I was preparing to do it the hard way. However, it turned out to be a non-issue. I used Macrium Reflect, the free version, succeeded first time, painlessly cloned the drive. Macrium Reflect does not adjust the drive size. Then I used MiniTool Partition Wizard Free version to expand C: drive to use all the unallocated space. Plug it in, the computer did not give any hiccups. It is indeed much faster than the original Lenovo SSD. I replaced the 256G manufacturer supplied SSD with 512G version of this product. I consider it as a great purchase. I think the cloning softwares may have largely figured out how to handle the different logic sector sizes issue.

Sabrent being a relatively recent brand, I was hesitant to invest in a solid state drive from this company, but after reading lots of reviews on here I was convinced to give it a shot. I picked this up for about $118 (1TB) and got a EKWB EK-M.2 heatsink as well. The packaging for the drive is very nice, which surprised me considering the price of the drive. The presentation of the product was pleasing. The drive is installed in a MSI X570 motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU and DDR4 3200 RAM. The EKWB heat sink was difficult to install, partially due to the very thin heatsink label pre attached to the drive, but I eventually managed to get the EK heat sink in place. I advise against trying to remove the label from this drive, it is attached firmly to the memory chips and you might damage the drive while trying to remove it. Just toss your heatsink on over it. If your motherboard has the clearance for the Sabrent branded heatsink, that might be a better option for ease of installation. Okay, the drive itself - it is over 1200B MB/s faster than my 1 terabyte Samsung Evo 970 nvme on the same motherboard, running at pcie 3.0 4x. I have attached a screenshot of a crystal disk benchmark. The Sabrent drive is running at pcie 3.0 4x, and is socketed into the m.2 slot serviced directly by my CPU. Windows 10 Professional boots up almost instantly, and the handful of programs that start with Windows also load rapidly. I have had no issues with the drive, no unexplained blue screens of death or unusual behavior in Windows either. My only complaint is that the company has yet to release a utility for updating the firmware of these drives, although I believe mine has the latest firmware already out of the box.

My PC (Dell XPS 8910) is roughly 5+ years old, has two NVMe slots on the mother board (MB) (one in use with current SSD (C:/) and the other has Wireless card), and I originally ordered it with a 500GB NVMe SSD as my primary / system drive and a 2TB 7,200 RPM SATA drive for data storage. My goal was to install the Sabrent 2TB drive as a third drive for audio / video editing (FAST!!). In all scenarios below, the mother board bios would see the Sabrent drive Abbreviated version of the story.... Failed - Sabrent NVMe SSD on PCIe Adapter card (with SATA Cable attached to MB) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JKH5VTL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Failed - Sabrent NVMe SSD on Sabrent PCIe Adapter card (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084GDY2PW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Failed - Sabrent NVMe SSD in USB 3.2 Enclosure (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08RVC6F9Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Success - Sabrent NVMe SSD in place of existing 500 GB SSD drive (NVMe Slot on MB). Booted with Windows install and was able to see and format the Sabrent drive. Failed - Move formatted Sabrent SSD to PCIe Adapter card / return original SSD System Drive Failed - Move formatted Sabrent SSD to Sabrent PCIe Adapter card / return original SSD System Drive Success - Install Sabrent SSD in Sabrent USB 3.2 Enclosure Ultimately I ended up replacing my existing 500 GB SSD with the Sabrent SSD. With the purchase of the drive, they offer a tool called Acronis, which will ghost (copy) from one drive to another. With the Sabrent SSD in the USB enclosure and my original SSD in the NVMe slot on the MB, I ran the program. Process was quick and completed without any issues. Not exactly what I wanted but, in the end, I only lost 500 GB of storage and accomplished my main goal which was increase overall storage of fast SSD for audio / video editing. Sabrent Tech Support was with me every step of the way! These guys were very responsive when I originally reached out via phone and in every subsequent follow up message via email. Excellent customer support, technical skills, and follow up!! Would highly recommend!

The speeds are an improvement over the stock WD 720 that came with my laptop. The Rocket lives up to the name. Consistently get Reads that 3,300+ MB/s and Writes that were above 3,000 MB/s. The are just under that after using it about a week, but still very good. I contacted Sabrent support with my s/n to see if they can tell me what what controller my unit is using to verify is was the Phison E12, but have not heard back about that yet. Their support did get back to me about their Control Panel software saying there was no information about my device at this moment. Their support claims that means my device appears to be running the latest firmware which my shipped with RKT303.3 For those looking to clone your current Boot OS drive to the Rocket, read some of they other reviews like I did. I ended up making an image of by previous WD 720 with Macrium Reflect 7, Free edition, and saved that to a 128GB flash drive. I used another 16GB flash drive to create a bootable rescue media. I found a Youtube video by Phillip Yip that walks you through both steps. I created the image of my old NVMe and rescue media the day before my Sabrent Rocket arrived, so once I got it, I installed it, and plugged both flash drives in, booted to Macriums preOS imaging software, and selected the image I created from my 128GB flash drive. Took less than an hour from opening my package to logging into Windows with the Rocket installed with all my data and settings from the old NVMe. **UPDATE 5/20/20** I still havent heard back officially from Sabrent support in regard to cross referencing my serial number with what controller my drive has, but that is understandable with the current state of the world. I did find a download online to test my drive and list off its specs. It did show in fact it was the Phison E12 controller. Ive also added CrystalDiskMark results from day 1 and the following week.

Just popped it into a DELL T420, ESXi recognized the drive. Formatted it, and done. Can also be used with virtualized NVMe adapter, tested with Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 just fine. Cuts down the time for deploying lab machines from 10s of minutes with old PERC to single digit second affair. Wonderful if you have to do it a lot of testing and need to blow away and spin-up new machines in quick succession. Totally changed my workflow. I can build labs ad-hoc with customers on the phone. Takes me longer to license guests than to spin-up a multi GB machines. And, oh no noise from old SAS drives any longer, which is an added benefit. Also, a lot slower, but substantial speed gain when rebooting hypervisor and starting 20+ VMs at the same time, that has been taken in the past 10s of minutes, and is now done in a few. I got the 4TB version.

I have been using this drive for a little over 2 months now. This has been a Great drive so far, and the Experience of disk cloning with the downloadable software WAS Amazing. I place this drive in installed the software and it cloned my 1TB drive in like 15 minutes and the most. It was awesome!!.. I then set my pc to boot from the new drive and left my old drive as a back up and I was off and running with so much more space. I have had no issues so far, the dive has been doing just fine and I can say 100% I would buy it again without a 2nd thought. I fully recommend the drive and brand.

I bought this drive to install my games on as a lot of modern games are 70 to 100+ GB now. My Samsung 960 Pro 1TB drive was filling up. Normally I buy Samsung or Sandisk SSDs but I saw the price point on these with the 4.5 stars average reviews and I had to give it a shot at half the price of comparable sized Samsung drives and great 5 year warranty length. Pros: -Came in nice packaging -Performance benchmarks on par with other PCIe 4x M.2 drives like Samsung that cost 2x the money Sequential read speeds almost exact match for Samsung 960 1TB Pro that I own, sequential write speeds were faster than the Samsung, granted my Samsung is now 2 years + old but I had just done a secure erase to it before this test. Tested with Samsung Magician both drives below Samsung 960 Pro 1TB - Samsung NVMe Driver 3.1 Sequential Read/Write Random Read/Write 3095/2176 21972/169,433 Sabrent 2TB Rocket - Windows 10 Standard NVMe driver 3070/2945 21729/163,574 -No install issues, uses standard Windows 10 NVMe drivers. -Software to convert drive format from out of the box 512E sectors to 4K if desired. Found on product website. -5 Year warranty equal to the Samsung Pro versions and better than the EVO versions. -COST like stated the Samsung 960 Pro 1TB model I own still sells for $300 on Amazon and I got 2x the storage for $250 with this drive. Cons: -No drive management software like most major companies have. Example Sandisk or Samsung to manage drives and firmware upgrades along with stats on life of drive and benchmark software. You can find 3rd party software to do all this of this of course.

Very good product.

I purchased several of these for various computer builds. This particular install on an Asus Prime X470-Pro with its M.2 heat sink was a small concern. With any motherboard accessory as it relates to M.2 drives, the build quality and tolerances can vary. The consistency between all of my ASUS motherboards with M.2 heatsinks turned out to not be a concern for this Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe SSD. All of the Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe SSDs that I have purchased so far all are the exact same build quality and consistency. They dont overheat when stressed (due in large part of the heat sink). The data rates (read and write) were in the low to mid 2000 MB/s before I updated the BIOS firmware & chipset drivers. They are now high 2000 MB/s and that is good enough for me. I probably can do a bit more updating and tweaking but coming from a SATA SSD and loading Premiere Pro 2020 with 8K media files always resulted in longer load times from that SATA SSD. No longer with the Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe SSD. Average load times are now 3-9 seconds. I will be back for more!