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

This drive is very fast and install was easy. This is down in the weeds a bit, but an important note is that it uses 4k byte sectors and has no 512 byte emulation (512e). This minor detail cost me 12+ hours of trying to figure out how to make the drive work with what I needed to do with it (clone and encrypt my OS). For clean installs, this should not be a problem. Cloning a hard drive is a problem, however, because you will need to have cloning software that can convert 512 byte sectors to 4k sectors, and even then, the cloning software may not be able to convert the boot partition (which happened to me), which will result in it being impossible to boot your computer. Most modern hard drives have 4k physical sectors (like this one) but emulate 512 byte sectors for compatibility purposes (some programs still are only compatible with 512 byte sectors). This drive does not emulate, which causes the above-mentioned issues. If doing a clean install of Windows, the drive should be fine and is very fast, but cloning did not work for me. Be aware that there may be other compatibility issues with programs, however. My laptop is less than one year old and has a SATA SSD, so this doesnt just affect traditional hard drives. As a side note, the lack of 512e may also affect the encryption and backup of your hard drive. Popular encryption software VeraCrypt only supports 512 byte sectors, and I could not get Bitlocker to work properly after a clean install of Windows using this hard drive (could have been user error, but I worked on it for a few hours). I decided to send the drive back so I did not attempt to back up the hard drive, but it is also possible that the lack of 512e would also affect the ability to back up this hard drive to another hard drive with 512e, even if the backup drive has 4k physical sectors. Just do your homework on these issues before purchasing the drive.

I cant express how pleased I am with the speed of this NVME. Crystal Disk was spot on with the rated speeds. My computer boots in 2 seconds! I was a little skeptical not being able to find much info on this drive, but I did find out it is based on Toshibas BiCS 3d TLC NAND. They are the innovators so I was good with that. The price to performance is definitely worth it. 512gb nvme that performs at 3500/3000 and is only 99 BUCKS! Ill take that! The only irritation I had was I could not Clone to this drive for the life of me. I tried Macrium, Acronis, and Casper. Casper cloned it, but would not boot into Win 10. I finally gave up and just installed windows 10 fresh. After that it booted instantly and updated rediculously fast. My WIFI was my bottleneck. I am no pro, but Ive built a bunch of PCs for myself and friends for gaming. Ive used a lot of different ssds from samsung, silicon power, zheino, pny, adata, intel, and now sabrent. It gets addicting. To be honest, once you get into NVME speeds it is hard to notice a difference from 1500 to 3500 anyway. SATA ssd is way better than platter, and NVME is better than that. This is cheap for now and competes with the best. If it lasts its the deal of the century.

I purchased the Sabrent Rocket 1TB M.2 SSD a few days ago and it installed easily and is running perfectly. I did a fresh dual boot install with Windows 10 and Manjaro Linux and neither OS had any problems with it. Most amazingly it actually achieves the advertised read/write speeds, which, in my four decades as a digital design engineer, Ive found to be quite rare. I saw other comments about the warranty period not being the advertised 5 years, but I just registered on their website and indeed received a 5 year warranty. So Im quite happy for now, but if it has problems prematurely Ill come back and revise this review. One final note, others have commented on problems when cloning an existing drive with 512 byte sectors to the Sabrent, which has 4096 byte sectors. While Sabrent now provides free software to reformat the drive to 512 byte sectors, so its no longer an issue, I strongly advise against it. If you format the drive to 512 byte sectors youll experience significant performance degradation, and that has nothing to do with Sabrent. Its a highly technical issue, but suffice to say that new high performance SSD drives use 4096 byte sectors for good reason, and if you make them smaller theyll still work but much slower. And that includes the many drives out there that use 512 byte sector emulation. The bottom line is that if you have an older drive and want to move to the full performance of any modern high performance SSD you should not change its sector size. Just take the time to do a clean reinstall.

Just gotta say, Ive been using Sabrent for every PC I build. They are fast, reliable, and they are wallet friendly! I recently purchace this Sabrent 1T Rocket so I can have a dedicated NVMe drive for my gaming PC. Set up was quick, easy, and the speed will.absolutly stomp any HDD or 2.5 SSD. Just make sure your motherboard is NVMe comparable before purchasing. If it is, but one for your boot drive (500 gig) and one for all those sweet games you got :D. If your looking for speed and reliability, than this is the storage device for you! Pros: Speed, Reliability, Warranty, Cost Efficiant Cons: None so far, never had a drive go bad on me yet. * Just make sure you but a Heatsink for the drive, I recommend the Sabrent brand for this one. It keeps it cool even while gaming for 7 hours.

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.

For about three days now, Ive been using my Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe SSD on a PCIe card in a 2014 Dell workstation that didnt have an integrated NVMe slot on the motherboard. It was easy to install, the 1TB of space is plenty roomy for my needs, and it is blazingly fast! My Win10 boot time has dropped from about 45 seconds to about 25 seconds (sometimes less). Consider me impressed! My PC is otherwise low-end and doesnt have the advanced graphics capability for gaming, so I cant really comment on the gaming aspect specifically -- but given the performance Ive seen on my machine, Ive got to assume it would improve anyones experience on a high-end gaming rig. Also, although other Amazon reviewers stated that cloning drives would be difficult unless you converted from 4K sectors to 512K sectors on this drive, I had no problems with my standard cloning freeware at all because this drive arrived pre-configured with 512K sectors. The Amazon seller was great, providing fast shipping and pleasant customer service followup by email. I recommend the seller and product, you wont have any regrets!

Viene muy bien embalado, tiene una cahita metálica de protección muy top

The product works as intended and is best suited as an OS drive. This drive is large enough to contain Win. 10 Pro with more than enough free space to not suffer from slowdowns due to the drive being filled to capacity. This product should be paired with an SSD devoted to programs and games such as a SATA SSD or SSHD. If the M.2 drive is in a compact place, do not install a heat sink, there is nowhere to radiate the heat and it will overheat, and performance will suffer and the drive will fail much sooner. To use a heat sink efficiently the drive must have room to radiate the heat and good airflow is a must either way. A famed heat sink in a compact space is useless and will cause higher temps when running.

Its the third NVMe drive in my system (sounds crazy, I know). Comparing to what I had before, the Sabrent Rocket is really a rocket. It gives the best performance in my system. The pros: 1. It stays cool when idle or not much used. My Win10 is installed on this drive and most of the time I see ~28C given the ambient temperature is ~23C. Under a huge load (whole OP queue used, full bandwidth) it rises up to 49C. No heatsink used. A reference HP drive in the same system constantly stays at 54C regardless to the loading. So it seems the power management is good on this device. 2. The actual speed in the sequential write is slightly higher than advertised. See the attached screen. However, this parameter is the least useful since a sequential writing of big chunks of data is a very specific use case. 3. The random read timing is very good comparing to the same tier devices. 4. You can adjust the block size to choose between ease of migration and the device lifespan. The default block size of 512 bytes gives good performance on the default NTFS 4k cluster format, while providing a better wear leveling. The 4K block size lets cloning setups that would not be cloneable otherwise. My personal advise is do not use larger blocks. By spending some extra hours on the full OS reinstall you may save months if not years of your device health. 5. Sabrent has a pretty usable tool to get info about the device. The cons: 1. The S/N of the device is not listed on the boxes even though there are placeholders for that. So, when you decide to go a nd register the device for the 5 years warranty, youll have to get S/N via the disk info tools or open you PC box. 2. The random write performance is noticeable worse comparing to the same tier devices. All in all, this is a very good NVMe SSD. I think its priced fair. I cannot give feedback on the reliability yet, but 5 years warranty makes me optimistic.

Update: (Original review below). After finally getting around to an RMA I can say that at least Sabrent has good customer service. The support team responded pretty quickly and has a replacement on the way. Hopefully my original experience was just bad luck. I will try to update this review either way. if another fails similarly that isnt a good sign, but hopefully this one can give me a much better run. I have replaced my boot drive already with a samsung unit so the Sabrent drive I get wont be put through the same high use as the original one. Original (1 star review): Everything was fine other than the fact that it failed so early. The drive has generally good reviews but I am thinking that quality has dropped. Drive gave out after less than 3 months. Sure if you register for the extended warranty they can replace it, but hopefully that replacement isnt just as bad. I dont care much for a replacement if I cant trust it not to fail on me when I have work to do. Now I am stuck with the prospect of having an untrustworthy drive as my boot drive, or buying a whole new SSD. Who doesnt love reinstalling and setting up their environment every 3 months?