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

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?

I figured this would be easy. Get an external enclosure, clone it and be done. That was not the case. I guess ssds re really particular about the drives being the same size and also sector size. In my case when I tried to clone it, my clone software said it needed 4k sector size. But the Serbent software would not convert it. Well if it did, it did not verify that it did. And after trying what I thought was a 4k sector size clone the computer would not detect the drive. (no hard drive found) So I had to go back to 512e. And after about 12 hours of messing with it, what worked for me was to create a windows back up image of my machine to a 2tb external drive. Make a USB boot drive then restore from a backup image to the drive. Which was fine. But I was going from a 512ssd to a 2tb so when it restored I had a 1.4Tb unused partition. If I wanted to keep it as a D: drive I was set, but I wanted it all on one volume. I have the drive in a Dell Inspiron 7590 2 in 1 so the drive was cut into several partitions. 2 diagnostic partitions and one called winretools which I guess is for Dell restore functions. I had to delete those 3 partitions with partition master software. And after I cleared that up, partition master was not able to extend my C: partition. But I was able to extend it in the windows disk manager. Once I get everything setup Im going to make another full system backup image and store it somewhere safe. Oh and yes its very fast. My ssd sequential read benchmarks went from 500 to 3400

Let me just say this is almost 6x faster than my blazing fast Pony SSD which Ive had no complaints about. Im a noob at M2 drives so was confused about how to install it. LOL This is a great investment though Im not sure this is the same model Priceblink found when I was looking at the SB Rocket on Newegg. Pretty sure it is, all 5 star reviews. But, being on Windows 7, I had an absolute nightmare trying to get this recognized (especially on an X570 Ryzen system). Yes, I have Windows 7 working fine on a Ryzen system. MS stupidly removed all Windows 7 hotfixes with no offer to place them on a legacy site. Like they cant afford that, right? I found the 2014 hotfix Windows6.1-KB2990941-v3-x64.msu on the hotfixshare site and uploaded it to Mediafire so I can provide it to others. No idea how to share the link here though. :( Maybe theres someway to pm me? Anyway, Windows 7 sees it now. Sabrent should (and many other companies that also should) provide the hotfix on their site as there are about a billion of us not dumb enough to depend on Windows 10. :p Ive used Windows 10 since it came out and its bananas. Nvidia actually said that every serious update for Windows 10 is actually like a completely new operating system and they struggle to keep up with it. I had a complaint about their software because it was huge looking on my display. (It was the firmware updater). Turns out it would have been pointless anyway as I had downloaded the wrong one anyway! :p The control panel software does a LOT of useful functions. Too back it only works with the Sabrent drive as its so easy to use. This is Dave not Katherine.

I purchased a 512GB model for just shy of $60 (saw a -$10 amazon coupon button!) with the intention of upgrading from a 1TB Seagate FireCuda mechanical drive. DO NOT BE DETERRED BY SECTOR SIZE OR CONFIG. Sabrent hosts a very convenient tool to convert between 4k and 512e sector size very easily. However mine came already in the 512e format so I didnt need to use it. To clone my current Win10 drive I found that EaseUS Todo Backup has a COMPLETELY FREE version that will clone one drive to another. Even with different partition sizes. So, in about 15 minutes I had my current drive cloned to this M.2 drive and shut down my pc, unpluged the old hdd, and rebooted and it immediately (emphasis on immediately) booted back to the desktop just as I left it! Simply perfect! Ive attached some performance benchmarks and I believe the important numbers here are the random 4k read/writes that are most relevant to an operating system loading random files. That being said, by the numbers its about 350 times faster! And you can tell! Also, according to the card in the case it came in, with free product registration you can extend the warranty to 5-yrs! Relevant PC Config as tested: Mobo: ASUS ROG STRIX B-450F CPU: AMD RYZEN 2600X RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 2x8gb 2933MHz OCd to 3200MHz

I’m using this as a boot drive for my M1 Mac mini, which I got with the smallest available SSD. This provides speeds that get close to the internal SSD and it works transparently. Way cheaper than going with a larger internal drive. My enclosure is the OWC envoy express, which is Thunderbolt 3.

The 1TB Sabrent Rocket offers the best performance of the Rocket line. The cost per GB is among the lowest of all NVMe drives. Yet as in expensive as this drive is, you wouldnt be able to tell by the product. The packaging it comes in is a small tin can that does a good job in keeping the drive safe. There is also minimal packaging to remove, so thats appreciated. Installing is a breeze as you just insert it into an M.2 slot and secure it with a screw. Those should be provided by your motherboard manufacturer as they are not included in the Rocket package. Once installed, its off to the races. This boots Windows incredibly quickly and provides a good amount of storage for my favorite programs. Copying 500 GB from a mechanical drive was only limited by the ability of the mechanical drive. Copying huge programs or files within the NVMe drive is nearly instantaneous. All said 5 stars for Sabrent and 5 stars for Store4Memory as i got this next day!

Great drive. AS SSD is giving me consistent 3000/3000MB read/write performance. As others have mentioned, if cloning an existing drive you may need the Sabrent utility to change sector size to match your existing drive. If you have 2 slots, I used hirens free boot cd and iso2usb utility (Google hirens bootcd) to make an all inclusive bootable windows USB stick with all the cloning utilities you need. Just copy the sabrent utility to the USB drive after making it to use it in the bootable environment. If you dont have 2 m2 slots you have a few options, you can get an m.2 USB enclosure (make sure it supports your m.2 drive type) or image your existing drive to a second drive (external USB, internal secondary drive, etc.). I ran into a specific unique config conflict as well which Ill note here in case anyone else comes across it. My asrock Mobo has an Intel chipset that also controls the data and nvme ports. I have two platter drives attached to sata ports using raid 0. My precious m.2 drive was sata, so it only used one channel. This one is nvme and it uses more than one data channel. Because of this I had to enable a setting in my bios called M2_x/SEx-RST Pcie Storage Remapping. This setting apparently lets m.2 drives run in non raid mode while allowing your sata drives to stay in raid mode. Otherwise real happy with this drive.

This drive is fast and reliable. I recommend it completely. However in the Frame.work laptop if Linux or Windows is configured for Deep Sleep (non modern sleep that uses way less power and doesnt melt the device in your backpack) when the machine wakes the drive becomes Read-Only. Price & Size make it worth the issue though, just dont turn on deep sleep.

This is my second 500 GB NVME SSD. Performance wise (using ATTO benchmark) shows the speed as advertised. recently, I bought this piece of SSD with the bargain price ( probably because of the faster , bad-ass PCI-E 4.x4 NVME just lauch ) regardless , The warranty is 5 years (registration required) with pcb made in Taiwan, and good 800 TBW Endurance , this is the ONe. I couldnt be happier :-) . the only Cons is there is no SSD software tools (like Samsung Magician.) and..oh..regarding the working temperature..after benchmark, the idle temp increase from 22 C to 39 C and decrease to 24 C ...OMG...it never happen before. Usually i ended up with max temp around 49 C ..i dont know why. Is it because of a really good cooling..(I have heatsink on top SSD and casing fan ) and/or because of the NAND and Controller ?? maybe both. I havent tested the copy/paste file transfer. just want to see how much SLCs Ram it has. maybe later. as conclusion this is the best choice in term of performance/price ratio .

got this on 2019 and today still doing great