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

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.

I ran the benchmarks using well recognized test suite PHoronix: phoronix-test-suite benchmark fio-1.13.2 The results are disappointing in comparison to Samsung 970 EVO Plus: SB-ROCKET-2TB | Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 1951 MB / s | 3353 MB / s | Random Read 8 MB <<== Sabrent LOST 2309 MB / s | 1752 MB / s | Random Write 8 MB <<== Sabrent WON over Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 2036 MB / s | 3347 MB / s | Sequential Read 8 MB <<== Sabrent LOST 2878 MB / s | 3075 MB / s | Sequential Write 8 MB <<== Sabrent LOST If I had to buy 2TB SSD again, I would definitely go for Samsung 970 EVO PLUS. I still want to give Sabrent a benefit of a doubt, and I emailed them to give me the download links to latest firmware binaries, because as Linux user, I cant use Windows Sabrent Control Panel to update the firmware. Sabrent did replay that Anne V will ask Development Team whether they can provide binary file of the latest firmware, so that Linux users can upload it to the SSD drive. Should Sabrent be so nice and send me the latest firmware, I will happily repeat the performance test, and update my review. For now, to be honest I feel sad and disappointed having believed Sabrents advertised speeds of 3400/3000, which are unreal as you can see on command line throughput test as well as on Phoronix fio suite test. I measured the actual write and read using Linux commands, not some benchmark which performs unknown operations behind the scenes: Write: LC_ALL=C dd if=/dev/zero of=largefile bs=1M count=1024 conv=fdatasync,notrunc 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 0.832302 s, 1.3 GB/s Cached Read: LC_ALL=C dd if=largefile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 0.0853895 s, 12.6 GB/s Non Cached Read: sudo su -c echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches LC_ALL=C dd if=largefile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 0.80757 s, 1.3 GB/s

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.

Works, was packaged well, and had no defects. Im sure this will last me untill ARK alone becomes 1TB. Until then however, this thing is doing me just fine! I use it for video and photo storage as well as gaming. My most important games go on it along with my mass dumps of vids and photos. Fast transfer from there to wherever I choose: server, Google, sd cards, whatever. This one has been in 2 pcs so far. Bang for buck Turbo Panda

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.

Performance has been perfectly adequate under Debian 9 and 10, and the device was quick and easy to install. I show a run time of over 3,400 hours since I bought this, and it hasnt given me any issues whatsoever while in service. Recent Ubuntu installers had some trouble recognizing/identifying and partitioning the device (possibly due to the fact that it is a native 4k block size with no 512e) when I was playing around with that and Ubuntu could not be installed using the default install tooling. Debians more traditional installer had no such issues working with it and it has performed acceptably over the course of several months with no errors. Typical on-die temperatures are about 33 Celcius, although expect it to heat up if under heavy load. Note that this is actually a Phison E12 NVMe SSD, rebranded under the Sabrent name. Sabrent provides no firmware updates for the device, which in my case shipped with firmware version ECFM12.1. At the time of this writing, Phisons latest firmware is 12.3. My understanding from poking around on the internet is that the Sabrent Rocket is a Phison reference implementation -- meaning theres nothing special added by Sabrent -- and uses the reference Phison firmware, so it ought to be upgradable but I have elected not do try it.

I bought this because i had a gift card and it only cost me a few bucks to check it out. I wanted to see how the NVME SSDs were vs a regular SSD or had drive. For the most part its pretty fast. But i bought it to use for games like battlefield V that seems to take a long time to load. It still takes forever. I dont think thats the drives fault. I just think BF loads slow. I have an I7 and an RTX 2070 with 32 gb of ram as well so its a pretty new machine. Its not as amazing as i thought it would be, honestly id just get a regular SSD due to the fact they have more storage but i mean all in all if you have the money its worth it i think too. Im kind of in the camp i can take it or leave it. I ran some tests on it and then tested my regular SSD. I forget the software now but it did show it was about 30% faster than the regular SSD. But as far as everyday use i cant tell to be honest. These are just some random thoughts on it. It seems dependable but was kind of a pain to install. I ended up buying one of those PCIE boards with the connectors on it for this type of SSD so u can just set that on your desk to put it in. It was a lot easier. It was nearly impossible for me to get to the area on my motherboard where mine would sit. It took me about 30 minutes that day to finally get it seated lol. So you may want to consider investing in one of those as well. I think they are like ten bucks.

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.

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.

Okay to start things off, I order 2 2TB drives at the same time. One was DOA, while the other one was good. Return policy was flawless, not one complaint on that end. The replacement drive is working great. Sucks it cost me an extra 40 bucks to get a NVMe enclosure to troubleshoot it to a faulty drive and not my Area 51M. Which I assumed it was the drive since my factory M.2 Sata drives worked fine. I just wanted to cover my end. Im not that type of person. Could of been limitations on my laptop preventing running 2 2TB NVMe drives. The drives work amazing for the price point. Listen you get what you pay for in this world. If you think your getting a bargain on something, think again. I enjoy these drives, they are fast. If I wanted too of the line then I would of went with Samsung. Do they hold up against Samsung, NO. Do they give you great performance for the price point, YES. If you are looking for great drives that wont break the bank, look no further. WARNING: 4K sector wasnt a huge issue for me. I do clean installs. Im against cloning drives. Personal opinion. They do have software to help with that issue. I didnt use any of that so cant tell you how that software handles itself. BIGGEST CON: The worse thing going against these drives is firmware update software. Its complete garbage.(as of 08JAN2020, it states it was in 1.0 Beta. More like 1.0Alpha) Tried to use it to check my firmware, tells me to go to settings and update the app. Go to update the app and tells me its up to date. Currently to my knowledge their is no way to update firmware. Huge Con in my book.