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

Motherboard z170 mini-atx Fatality by ASRock Problem = Loss of data Spoiler = Do not reformat just yet, there is hope to recover your data! Symptoms: Computer restarts every-time you try to shut it off. Hard reset results in the inability to boot into Windows. Attempts to reformat result in --> ERROR CODE 0X8007025D: WINDOWS 10 INSTALLATION CANCELED Update/Eureka moment: The motherboard appears to have been treating my SATA SSDs on the [now obsolete] SATA Express/SATA III combo ports as a boot drive while having PCI-E M.2 Drive plugged in. It seems as though windows was losing its bootability by inadvertently corrupting or inactivating the M.2 Drive and/or treating it like a SATA III drive or attempting to boot/repair [a non-existant windows install] on the SATA III drive [in the SATA Express port]. TLDR/Long-story-short = 1. Motherboards that support M.2 PCI E may shut off some SATA lanes. Cant just connect all drives haphazardly. Read the manual, attempt different cabling. Avoid using M.2 and SATA express lanes simultaneously. 2. 0X8007025D Error code is likely simply due to a corrupted USB drive (yes...) I had to turn a windows ISO into a bootable USB via Rufus, because the Windows media creation tool kept failing for me. Use Safely remove USB drive. and Do not plug the usb into a hub. Plug it into the motherboard directly. 3. YOU CAN RECOVER YOUR FILES. Install windows (use I dont have a CD Key option if necessary) onto an alternate drive, temporarily. Then use this windows install to access the non-bootable drive, and extract all important files. Then finally, reinstall windows on your desired drive.

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.

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 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.

TL/DR: If you plan to do a fresh OS installation, this thing will be a breeze to install. Super fast, and you can’t beat the price. So I decided to try out this brand I’d never even heard of, simply due to it’s amazingly low price point. I was initially concerned about the drive not coming with native 512emulation, which could cause issues cloning from older drives. After reading all the reviews (here and elsewhere) I thought, “what the heck, my computer skills arent bad... I’m sure I can handle it.” *YIKES* With no native 512emulation, you need to download the conversion software from SABRENT’s website to convert to 512e, and then you can run your cloning software. The cloning process went fine, but I simply couldn’t make a bootable clone. I tried multiple times. Seems going from an old sata mechanical drive to this m.2, was just too much change. Even repairing the windows installation couldnt make it functional. Finally ended up just doing a fresh install of Windows 10 and everything went smooth. Drive is ultra fast, huge, and the price was simply unbeatable. Will I purchase one of these again in the future? Absolutely. I went into this thing knowing about the cloning issue, so I feel confident giving this thing a 5-star rating. Just do yourself a favor... if you aren’t cloning from the exact same drive type (m.2>m.2) just do a fresh install of your OS and save yourself a bunch of hassle.

Great bang for the buck and easy swap! Downloaded Acronis for Sabrent. Shutdown the system. Installed new SSD in open M.2 slot. Performed system backup. Opened Acronis and chose clone option. Once complete I shutdown the system and removed old HDD. Started system and WOW it boots fast now! Well worth the money and really got my 3 year old laptop running fast again. For product registration and extended warranty make sure you get the information off the card before installing it. I figured it would be on the box the card came in... NOPE! Its printed in the down facing side so you have to remove it to get the information off if you dont get it before installing. EDIT: After looking at the box the SSD came in, the model and serial are on a small sticker on the bottom of the box. Dang it!

Very good product.

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.

got this on 2019 and today still doing great

Found this video on YouTube that discussed adding a 1TB NVME PCIE M.2 2280 SSD to the Lenovo Legion Y530 laptop I own. I was a little concerned that the laptop may not support it since the Lenovo documentation only states it supports NVME SSDs up to 500 GB, but I learned through research that those were the sizes available at the time. Fortunately, it worked without a problem. I was able to keep my existing SATA 250GB SSD, then add this one (Note: you’ll need a screw for the NVME SSD). Powered the laptop up, Installed the Acronis software and cloned the Old SSD to my 1TB Rocket SSD. Removed the Old drive, and confirmed the clone went smoothly. Then I just formatted my OLD SATA SSD and now use it as a backup drive using the free Acronis software. All I can say is Thank You Sabrent. This laptop was already pretty quick with a SATA SSD, but once I switched over to this one, I noticed that everything is really snappy, and now I have 1TB of space to pay with. I’m glad I made the purchase.