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

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.

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!

I bought this drive for a video editing scratch drive. Since my motherboards m.2 PCIe slot disables two SATA ports if used I decided to use a PCIe adapter. Windows 7 does not natively support NVMe so a driver is required. Sabrent does not make one for the Phison onboard controller, but Microsoft supplied a Standard NVM Controller for awhile However they discontinued it as part of the attempt to have everyone switch to Windows 10 which does support NVMe. Since my video editing software will not run on Windows 10 I decided to look for another source for the Windows Standard NVM Controller besides Microsoft. Fortunately Lenovo had the driver so I downloaded it from there. Once installed the drive was recognized by Windows 7 and I was able to format it. My initial tests with Crystal Disk Mark were very good and the drive worked well during my scratch drive video rendering tests. However, Crystal Disk Info did not see the drive at all. My BIOS does see it. The Sabrent Control panel didnt see the drive either. I decided to do some research and found that some people had force installed the Samsung Windows 7 Driver claiming it worked. I tried it and it did work. The Sabrent Rocket was recognized by the Sabrent Control panel, Crystal Disk Info, and my Crystal Disk Mark speeds improved. I dont plan in using it as a boot drive so I cannot comment on whether one can get that to work under Windows 7. I tried a Macrium Reflect Boot disk for the heck of it and it did NOT see the drive even though my BIOS did. But I am happy with a fast SATA SSD for a boot and program drive and the NVMe as a scratch disk for video editing.

Update: I received a replacement drive and it has been working solid for several months now. I am guessing I just got a bad one. Sabrent was easy to work with on the replacement and stood behind their product. Update: Sabrent was quick to respond to my RMA is in the process of receiving my drive back and hopefully receiving a new replacement back. I went ahead and upd to 3 stars for now as their customer service is top notch. Emailing back and forth, they have zero issues replying within about an hour which is amazing. Gotta give it to them for that. This drive worked amazing while it was functioning. Easy install, no setup or OS install issues. Worked flawless for right at 3 months and then one day, went to go turn on my computer and my computer kept going straight to bios. After about two days of component testing, including a brand new mother board, I was able to rule everything out except the drive. Went out and bought a new drive local, put it in and my computer immediately started working again. Of course lost all my data and had to reinstall my OS but now my computer is back up and running. Reached out to Sabrent in regards to a replacement so hopefully that goes well. Until then, my rating is a 1 star because of the failure. If they make it right and stand behind their product, I have no problems giving it 5 stars. I understand electronic components can go bad. Sometimes no matter how thorough the quality control is, there can be failures down the road. It is what it is.

A few observations from a 2021 purchased SB-ROCKET-1TB Good news: 1. The drive now ships in 512e Advanced Format mode, likely in response to earlier reviews. This is emulated 512 byte sectors. The drive is natively 4K byte sectors, but you need to download software from Sabrent to switch it back to 4Kn sectors. The software is currently only available for PC (no Mac version). You can choose which configuration you prefer, so dont be dissuaded by earlier reviews complaining about the inability to clone from other drives with mismatched sector size 2. The drive works well in both Mac and PC computers Bad news: 3. Earlier reviews noted that Sabrent have changed the design silently since first launch of this product. This is true, but the photos in earlier reviews are now out of date as well. The controller IC is now labeled as Sabrent, which could be just a cover to hide the true manufacturer, or they could have designed their own controller with Phisons help. There is a smaller IC on the board with Phisons logo, so theyre still involved in some way. I dont have the budget nor technical skill to decap the controller IC to find out. Some speculate the cache has been cut in half, which seems plausible from my testing 4. The drive has a bad throttling problem. Im not certain its related to thermal performance, but its clearly visible when doing a full-disk write to test the drive. The drive was operated under a heatsink made by OWC. It may be related to the cache of the controller, as mentioned in point 3. Please see the attached photo. At about 350GB filled, the drive throttled down massively. Write performance goes from about 2900MB/s to 1000MB/s. You may only experience this if using this drive for a lot of consistent write operations, like video editing. Youre unlikely to experience this if using the drive for gaming, as that is a mostly read intensive use. The drive did not throttle at all during a full disk read operation. Read performance stayed consistent at about 3200MB/s. Ive attached a photo showing that graph as well.

I have a 6 year old game computer. It still chugs along with a PCIe2 bus. Had to use a $15 PCIe adapter just to get this new NVMe stick in the machine. Some fiddle around getting Windows 10 to format and name the drive... before that it wont show anywhere but in the Device Manager. Once formatted and given a drive letter there it was in list of available drives. It works beyond all expectations! I put my CIV6 game on it to try it out and *wow* things got fast. I did not expect it to make game play faster but it sure did speed things up. I have an old Samsung 840 SSD for the main drive but this new NVMe stick on a PCIe adapter turned it into a new computer. So much so Ill probably put off building a new computer because my old machine is fast again. Solid upgrade and money well spent.

Sabrent being a relatively recent brand, I was hesitant to invest in a solid state drive from this company, but after reading lots of reviews on here I was convinced to give it a shot. I picked this up for about $118 (1TB) and got a EKWB EK-M.2 heatsink as well. The packaging for the drive is very nice, which surprised me considering the price of the drive. The presentation of the product was pleasing. The drive is installed in a MSI X570 motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU and DDR4 3200 RAM. The EKWB heat sink was difficult to install, partially due to the very thin heatsink label pre attached to the drive, but I eventually managed to get the EK heat sink in place. I advise against trying to remove the label from this drive, it is attached firmly to the memory chips and you might damage the drive while trying to remove it. Just toss your heatsink on over it. If your motherboard has the clearance for the Sabrent branded heatsink, that might be a better option for ease of installation. Okay, the drive itself - it is over 1200B MB/s faster than my 1 terabyte Samsung Evo 970 nvme on the same motherboard, running at pcie 3.0 4x. I have attached a screenshot of a crystal disk benchmark. The Sabrent drive is running at pcie 3.0 4x, and is socketed into the m.2 slot serviced directly by my CPU. Windows 10 Professional boots up almost instantly, and the handful of programs that start with Windows also load rapidly. I have had no issues with the drive, no unexplained blue screens of death or unusual behavior in Windows either. My only complaint is that the company has yet to release a utility for updating the firmware of these drives, although I believe mine has the latest firmware already out of the box.

got this on 2019 and today still doing great

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 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.