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

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.

For about three days now, Ive been using my Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe SSD on a PCIe card in a 2014 Dell workstation that didnt have an integrated NVMe slot on the motherboard. It was easy to install, the 1TB of space is plenty roomy for my needs, and it is blazingly fast! My Win10 boot time has dropped from about 45 seconds to about 25 seconds (sometimes less). Consider me impressed! My PC is otherwise low-end and doesnt have the advanced graphics capability for gaming, so I cant really comment on the gaming aspect specifically -- but given the performance Ive seen on my machine, Ive got to assume it would improve anyones experience on a high-end gaming rig. Also, although other Amazon reviewers stated that cloning drives would be difficult unless you converted from 4K sectors to 512K sectors on this drive, I had no problems with my standard cloning freeware at all because this drive arrived pre-configured with 512K sectors. The Amazon seller was great, providing fast shipping and pleasant customer service followup by email. I recommend the seller and product, you wont have any regrets!

I use this as a boot drive and, well. It works great.

The first one I recieved was defective, which is a possibility with anything and I dont view that as a negative for the seller or the product. I contacted the Seller and they were extremely help full with getting me sent out a replacement which is currently working with zero issues. I never had any type of SSD before so can only compare to my 3.5 but for writing and loading cached textures its extremely fast in comparison was a night and day difference to you. This will depend on what your application needs and if your computer is lacking in other hardware but its easy to think a better GPU and CPU is all you need to think about for better performance. Highly suggest considering it, if you are still on a 3.5 like I was. Some things you wont notice much more than faster loading but for what I been doing it is constantly reading and writing to the cache and made everything feel so much faster. If you are considering the next generation up, consider your needs, it is slightly faster but you might only notice a second or two difference when loading, so this generation to me made the most since for the price decrease.

For people looking for a reliable NVMe without breaking the bank, this is the drive to consider. The transfer speeds are amazing and deliver the true NVMe speeds you want without overspending your budget. Installation of the drive was a breeze using the on-board NVMe slot for my PC. This drive is a size 2280 (Longest in length drive) and is keyed M to take full advantage of the PCIe x4 speeds. This drive is running with an Asus x370-PRIME motherboard for Ryzen. Its been over a month since installation, and things have never run smoother. The startup times of Windows and my Virtual Machines are amazing. Other disk intensive applications for photo editing and video editing have also been improved using this drive. I upgraded from a 256GB Samsung 860Pro to the 512GB Sabrent. I considered the Samsung drives, but couldnt bring myself to spend 2x-3x the price of this one. Manufacturers have greatly improved reliability and performance of Solid State Drives that it was worth trying this out. Its important to make sure your motherboard can truly support this drive before purchasing. As I write this review, the Sabrent 512GB Rocket NVMe drive utilizes the newest PCIe and M.2 standards available.

(Reviewing Sabrent SB-ROCKET-1TB) I had my doubts going in, but performance wise and ease of physical installation this is a great product. As you can see from the screen shot (my C: drive), it meets or exceeds the advertised specs (the D: drive is my prior SATA 6.0 Crucial MX300 boot drive). The physical installation couldnt have been simpler on my MSI X470 GAMING PLUS motherboard. I dinged this product two stars though (maybe you think thats too harsh, but I dont) for Easy to Install and 1 star off the Overall. This drive according to both Sabrent support and Amazon support does not support the standard 512/512e sector size of your typical hard disk or SSD, its a pure 4096 sector size device and needs to be GPT partitioned (not the older MBR partition types). I already had the device in hand from Amazon before I realized this, which goes to show, READ REVIEWS FIRST! What this means to YOU the potential purchaser is having to install Windows 10 clean and reinstall or restore all your software. BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM, TWICE, BEFORE YOU TRY MIGRATING TO THIS AS YOUR WINDOWS BOOT DRIVE! Get the MediaCreationTool64 off Microsoft and make sure you have a bootable install source (either USB stick or DVD) from reinstalling Windows 10 using that tool, and make sure you know your Windows product activation key before proceeding. I tried all the usual suspects you find online for migrating your Windows to a SSD without having to re-install, from Macrius to EaseUs to etc., each would fail saying unsupported destination due to sector size translation required, or they didnt support a GPT partitioned destination, etc. There was a paid version of one of them that said it could do it, I didnt feel like forking over another $20 or $30 or whatever it was they wanted. Amazon support suggested I try clonezilla, which is a custom bootable Linux for cloning drives (yes, it will clone Windows drives too), but it didnt work either. It would do its thing looking like things were copying to the Sabrent just fine, then it would error at the very end after the progress bar had reached 100%. So, in the end, after all these failures I just gave up, figuring in the long run Id be better off with a clean install of Windows 10 1809 than the patched and patched and patched to 1809 I had been running, and then restored my important stuff. So, final reminder, BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM, IDEALLY TWICE TO DIFFERENT DESTINATIONS, BEFORE YOU TRY MIGRATING TO THIS AS YOUR WINDOWS BOOT DRIVE! Overall, my PC has been up and running for almost a week now with this drive and no complaints under use for any productivity tasks, playing some pretty intense games, etc.

I used this Sabrent 1 TB NVME SSD to replace a smaller capacity SSD in a LG Gram 16. The downloadable Acronis software did a great job of cloning the smaller capacity source drive to the larger capacity target drive, and made it bootable. Swapped the SSDs and life was good! I suspect that most name-brand SSDs are good; for me, the difference maker is the cloning software that comes with the drive. Would buy again in a heartbeat!

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.

So I purchased this after hearing some promising stories about the company. So I was willing to give them a shot. I was in the process of doing a big upgrade to my pc for streaming purposes. The performance and speed all seemed to show that this was indeed a fast and reliable ssd, it started showing some bizarre behavior. Anytime the pc was reset either manually or when an update requires a pc reboot I would end up in the bios. And the ssd was not detected. I eventually found out I could hold down the power button for a few seconds and I could boot back into my pc. I didn’t suspect the ssd at first and assumed it was my windows install. So I did a completely fresh install and the issue remained. I made sure everything possible was updated to the latest firmware and bios settings. No success. I ultimately decided to live with it. It didn’t crash while gaming or streaming so I assumed it was fine. I recently did a motherboard and CPU upgrade and the issue was still there. So at this point the PC had everything replaced with the exception of the ssd. So at this point I’m certain it’s the ssd and reach out to Sabrent. After registration and pictures of the purchase recipe they also wanted me to take front and back pictures of the ssd. Their solution was for me to send the ssd to them and they would determine after inspection if they would send me a new one. Mind you this PC is my only one and I use it to stream. So after asking them how long it would take they explained it could be two weeks or more. I ask for an alternative and they tell me to buy another ssd from the Amazon seller and they’d reimburse me if they found that my drive was faulty. So either go two weeks without my PC or shell out another $200 and potentially be told that they can’t reproduce the error and not refund me. At this point I’ll be looking to return to Samsung. Who offer a cross shipping replacement so you can copy your files from your old drive to your replacement. Which unless Sabrent makes that offer in the future will mean they’ve lost me as a customer in the future. And I hope this helps some people save themselves some time if they are unfortunate and just go with a company with a better warranty practice.

This is a great SSD with great performance, if you can keep it cool. Mine is located partially under a hot GPU. This caused thermal throttling which adversely affected random writes. I installed a single-sided heatsink on the Sabrent which brought performance back up to what was expected. The Sabrent seems to run a little hotter than my Samsung PM961. The other issue is that if you plan to clone an existing drive to the Sabrent, you will likely run into the 512 byte vs 4096 byte sector incompatibility issue making cloning impossible. Essentially, most drives have 512 byte sectors. Most modern drives use 4096 byte sectors, but emulate 512 byte sectors. This Sabrent is 4096 bytes and does not emulate 512 byte sectors. This means you probably wont be able to clone your old drive to this Sabrent. If you are planning to use this a boot drive for an existing computer, youll most likely need to do a fresh install of your OS. If you are going to use this Sabrent as a data drive, then you can just copy the files over (but not clone). One star off for not supporting 512 byte sectors.