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

Used this Sabrent Rocket 2TB to replace the Intel 1TB NVMe SSD in my ASUS Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop. Install was easy peasy and the downloaded special version of Acronis True Image (only for Sabrent as Source or Destination drive use) was excellent. Did the Express setting and it accurately copied all the partitions of my original 1TB SSD to the new Sabrent Rocket 2TB including the hidden recovery partition. With the special package deal, I got the excellent Sabrent aluminum enclosure to help with the copying of my new Sabrent SSD and to then used it to hold the original Intel 1TB SSD. It is one of the best designed enclosures Ive ever seen. Extremely sturdy aluminum housing. With the package special, the Sabrent NVMe SSD enclosure was only $22 which is a bargain for a high quality NVMe SSD enclosure like this one. Speed test showed that large files transferred on read/writes at around 3200 MB/s as compared to the old drives speeds around 1700 MB/s. However, transfers of smaller random files were about 30% worse than before (somewhat unexpected!). Still, drive is working well and I will keep the current rating as long as the drive continues to work well.

As everyone has already said, this drive did perform close to (even outright beats out) other brands that are much more expensive. First thing I noticed when I got it was that the pachaging is pretty bare. You only get the drive, a plastic tray to hold it in place and a leaflet with info on online registration for extended warranty (up to 5 years!). Not a big deal for me considering this costs way lower than everything else right now. I installed the drive on my desktop. I must say the process is very straight forward. If you have taken apart your pc or laptop before, this should be easy. I then proceeded to do a clean install of windows and the rest of my apps. I have not encountered a difficulty throughout the whole windows install and set up process either. The drive got detected out of the box. No driver install needed. All thats left to do is to verify reliability on this drive. Its been 2 weeks of games and development work now and the drive is still pretty solid. Heres to hoping it stays the same for a good while. Oh and lets not forget the swift delivery. This thing came 2 days early (overseas shipping). Very satisfied with this purchase.

I built my new system with one PCIe M.2 drive (512GB) and a 3TB hard drive. That was ok, but I underestimated the size of PC games. I have been using consoles, and had never really thought about the size of games. I started using Steam, Origin, and some other distributors when I ran out of space on my single M.2 drive. The M.2 drive also had Windows and Office on it, and I was putting my system in some risk. I moved my Steam libraries to my hard drive, but I could not stand the speed or noise. I decided it was time to purchase a new M.2 drive. I could have gotten another 512GB drive for less that $70, or a 2TB drive for over $200. But neither of these seemed to suit my needs or my budget. I did look at non-PCI (sata basically) drives, but I saw no reason to purchase drives that were much slower then my current 512GB M.2. I also found a big difference in price between Sabrent (or Silicon Power) and the rest of the companies offering these drives. I have heard the YouTube commercials for the larger manufactures, but I just cannot spend the extra money for no additional value. So, it was between Sabrent and Silicon Power, with Sabrent being a few dollars cheaper. My other M.2 drive is Silicon Power so I would have been happy with another M.2 drive from them. But, their warranty is only 3 years (as far as I could determine), and Sabrent was offering 5 years. So, for less money and better warranty, I went with Sabrent. I am using a Gigabyte Aorus X570 Pro Wifi mobo, which hides the second M.2 under the GPU, just a bit. That could be due to the GPU I am using, and a thinner card may have been easier. But, all in all, it was simple to install. I SUGGEST that you fill out the warranty before you install the M.2 drive. If you do the warranty before the install, you will have easy access to all the information you need. If you wait, it may not be so easy. Be sure to fill out the warranty. You could lose 4 years of warranty (potentially) if you dont. The information was skimpy on how to set up Windows with the new M.2 drive. I did not have an issue, but I could see where others might. When I installed the M.2 drive, my mobo saw the drive right away. But, Windows did not. I had to initialize the file and give it a letter before I could use it. Nothing difficult, but the process could be documented better. Once Windows was happy with the drive, I spent a couple of hours with Steam. I had 500GB of PC games on my hard drive that I needed to send to the new library on the M.2 drive. This process was very manual, and took longer that I had expected. But, now that the setup is done, everything is running fine. To be sure, the clacking the hard drive was making made me a bit unhappy with my new system, but now I am a happy gamer once again. I did see a review on one of the Linus Tech Tip channels, which gave the Sabrent a good rating. I am glad I saw the review. I have seen a number of other reviews for the much more expensive M.2 drives, which made me a bit sad. One of my favorite YouTuber talks about getting great deals, and then I saw him pushing really expensive M.2 drives that are no better than the Sabrent model. It makes it hard to know when we are listening to a commercial and when we are getting real deal advice. In summery: 1. Price - check 2. Warranty - check 3. Recommendations - check My experience with this M.2 drive has been very good. I hope yours will be, too.

The Title says it all! First of all, Amazon got this to me a day earlier than estimated. Cant beat the price and service of Amazon. You just cant beat the price/performance with this drive. Better buy one now before prices go up. Now for the Drive: This thing is on par with and even better in some instances than the Western Digital Black NVME drive I bought 2 yrs back for my laptop for double the price of this Rocket! Blazing read and write speeds. Installing this drive on my MSI B450-A Pro was as easy as it can get. Cloning my OS from my old Samsung 840EVO to the Sabrent Rocket using the Acronis True Image software on the website was incredibly simple and works as advertised! Now I can give the 840EVO to my Grandson for his first build. Reliability and the company standing behind their product is paramount for me and since I have only had it installed for a day, time will tell. Ive always been a big WD fan and hopefully, Sabrent drives and Customer Support are just as reliable. I will update this review with pics of performance once I am able to and another in 6 months with more results.

I bought this to replace a older M2 SSD that had been filled up with Steam games for a while now. I was tired of swapping stuff out as needed and saw a OK deal on the 2TB version of this SSD. It IS noticeably faster than the old SSD (Crucial MX300 525GB) when it comes to loading games or levels....by perhaps a few seconds or so most of the time. Some games (Pinball Arcade for instance) show nearly no difference at all. Which was to be expected. Despite the impressive difference in the paper specs between this and my old SSD in real world applications like gaming the difference will be VERY small at best. Which I was OK with. I wasnt buying mainly for performance, I was aiming for a nice increase in storage capacity for games and since even the cheap 2TB+ SSDs tend to sell for well over $200 anyways I figured it was worth buying this for a moderate premium. When I retire this drive to one of my familys PCs after a few years itll work great as a boot SSD for the OS instead of just a game drive which is nice too but I already have a Samsung 970 Pro as my boot SSD so this one wouldnt really be any faster than that. There is supposed to be some significantly better PCIe 4.x M2 SSDs coming out fairly late in 2020 that miiiiiight be worth getting (the actual flash memory itself wont necessarily be better than what is currently out now, its the controller + dedicated DRAM for it that can make the difference) if you really want a nice boost in real world performance over current top end consumer M2 SSDs. Current PCIe 4.x SSDs arent worth the price premium over current PCIe 3.x SSDs despite the bigger on paper performance specs. Otherwise if you really want to improve performance over this drive youre going to have to shell out for a Optane SSD of some sort or one of those new Samsung HHHL PM1725 AIC (add in card) PCIe x8 SSDs and at 2TB+ capacities youre going to be spending a whole lotta cash to do so and even then for loading games I dont think therell be much difference anyways. What those drives excel at is high IOPs with low queue depth workloads so they make excellent boot or server drives though.

Installing it was super easy if youve done one before. If you havent installed one before, then there are pictures to guide you. IT DOES NOT COME WITH A SCREW!!! I was really impressed with the included link to download software to clone and clear drives for free I dont know if that was in the description, but it made moving my windows files very easy. If you are cloning your original windows drive, you must remove the original drive from the system. If you change it in the BIOS, you have to take it out. If not, it will not run correctly. I was using a 2.5 WD 1TB SSD drive as my main drive since my last NVMe Samsung SSD decided to burn up on me, and then I switched to this Sabrent, and its been amazing so far. Its fast; it reads quickly, and I assume it is more reliable than Samsung. Not to mention the cool packaging. All in all, I would probably buy a similar model and size for future use over Samsung.

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.

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.

This was fulfilled by amazon although the invoice clearly states sold by store4pc which is a Sabrent channel parter / distributer. The product is clearly not genuine as confirmed by Sabrent Tech support. They dont use Kensington chipsets, they use a Phishon controller and toshiba chipset. EDIT.. several days later this changed, see end of review. the card behaved strangely and poor performance, less than 1/3 rated speed. investigated further and found the card was running 512e not the native 4k nor was SMART available. that was red flag 1 placed the drive in windows10 and used sabrents software to format to 4k, it kept telling me after reboots re-running the software that it was still 512e. put it back in my other platform and it was indeed telling me it was running 4k but performance still was nowhere near spec. removed device from the heatsink and examined, you can clearly see that the chipset does not match the mfg photos. The kingston controller is not covered by the label, and the P HL chip by the pci-e notch is not there.. the layout of the entire board is not spec. sent photos to the mfg that confirmed the drive as counterfeit .. buyer beware ..... EDIT Sabrent technical called me back several days later and confirmed that manufacturing has changed the specification and design of the product and did bother to tell anyone, even the tech support at Sabrent as I stated, if you compare the chip layout paying specific attention to the resistors and cache chip by the pci-e connector.. you can see that it does not match the picture posted here on amazon by the Mfg. Further, if you look at the photo of the 3 reference layouts for Phison, you will notice that the card on the right, the reference E12 layout is what the Mfg advertises it uses, however if you look at the photo of the part that I received, it more closely resembled the E8 layout from 2017. I did not even get the E8 level of performance out of the drive. photos dont lie. the Mfg changed the specification, or their mfg faculty could not keep up with demand and are re-branding old stock in the hope the consumer doest notice. This is becoming all too typical with tech companies, release a product, get too reviews, then change the design specification to make it cheaper at the cost of performance without notifying the customer... its a bait and switch cant recommend Sabrent products at this time, until the company steps up... but be wary of what is advertised or specified on Sabrents website might not be the product you get in the end.