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

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

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.

Just gotta say, Ive been using Sabrent for every PC I build. They are fast, reliable, and they are wallet friendly! I recently purchace this Sabrent 1T Rocket so I can have a dedicated NVMe drive for my gaming PC. Set up was quick, easy, and the speed will.absolutly stomp any HDD or 2.5 SSD. Just make sure your motherboard is NVMe comparable before purchasing. If it is, but one for your boot drive (500 gig) and one for all those sweet games you got :D. If your looking for speed and reliability, than this is the storage device for you! Pros: Speed, Reliability, Warranty, Cost Efficiant Cons: None so far, never had a drive go bad on me yet. * Just make sure you but a Heatsink for the drive, I recommend the Sabrent brand for this one. It keeps it cool even while gaming for 7 hours.

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.

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!

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.

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 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.

I didnt have the sector problem some mentioned here. Mine came as 512 sectors. Sabrent has an app now that allows you to check and change the sector size. The problem I had was that the free Acronis software will not recognize the drive on a 3rd party external enclosure to migrate Windows since I was upgrading from a 256gb to 1tb and the slot had the 256gb in it to be cloned. I tried Aomei and it cloned it but when I installed the new drive it wouldnt boot. Since I also have an SATA 3 slot I ended up cloning to a spare SATA I had lying around. From there I I put the new 1tb formatted and simple volumed in the slot and booted windows from the SATA. At that point Acronis for Sabrent was able to see it and successfully clone it. After the hassle it was worth it. Compared to my old 960 evo 2500/1800 the Rocket benched at 3485/3003.