Ok yeah Im that person, I picked this up for my Steam Deck and it served its purpose until the 2TB version came out and now that is in the Steam Deck ... but what to do with this? I put it in a small 2230 external drive case and it is now my Windows 10 Boot partition when I want to boot my Steam Deck into Windows. It is sufficiently fast for the tasks it does, temps are reasonable (never really above like 65*C) and it just works. Sabrent knocks it out of the park once again.

I had read a lot of horror stories about upgrading the M.2 NVMe drive on the Surface Pro 8 (SP8). There were a lot of stories about overheating and BSOD when trying to re-install Windows. When I saw this Sabrent drive advertised on Amazon it specifically said Surface Pro compatible and that it ran cool, so I took a chance on it. I am very pleased with the result. Ill do the TL;DR part up front: I upgraded my 256GB M.2 Drive on my Surface Pro 8 with the 1 TB Sabrent Rocket 2230 NVMe M.2 drive, and the drive runs great at PCIe 4.0 Speeds according to CrystalMark 8. No BSOD and runs under 50 Celsius *EDIT*: Under maximum load, about 35 degrees celcius degrees idle/normal operations *END EDIT* according to CrystalDiskInfo 8. I was able to copy all of my files using Acronis partitioning software you get to use free from Sabrent when you purchase their drive. If you want to know exactly how I copied everything over without ever having to go into the BIOS, keep reading: UPFRONT DISCLAIMER: You will need to purchase three things to do this upgrade if you dont have them already. Two of them you would need anyway if you were to upgrade like Microsoft suggests: #4 Torx screwdriver/bit, thermal compound, and an external NVMe drive enclosure. 1) First I did purchase an external NVMe enclosure to copy the old drive to the new one. You can find them on Amazon for under $30 US. You need to make sure the enclosure can take 2230 size drives. I got one that had USB C to USB C cable and was thunderbolt compatible. Another consideration is that after you swap the NVMe drives you can use the enclosure with your old drive and have another high speed hard drive to back stuff up on, although I found you will need an NVMe thermal pad/heatsink for the old drive or it can overheat. 2) After reading about BSOD NVMe upgrade horror stories on the SP8 it lead me to articles talking about AHCI Link Power Management - HIPM/DIPM. HIPM/DIPM power management is not on by default and you actually have to do a Windows registry edit to make it available. There are some good guides on how to do this via a quick google search. I recommend you enable it and turn the feature on. 3) I had to disable drive encryption before copying files over (it is on by default). You can either disable encryption or get a USB encryption key. I chose to decrypt the drive which will take hours depending on how much data you have on the drive. You can re-encrypt once everything is over to the new drive. THIS NEXT PART IS WHERE MOVING FILES OVER AND GETTING WINDOWS SETEP ON THE NEW DRIVE DIFFERS FROM WHAT MICROSOFT WANTS YOU TO DO. 4) I cannot stress enough the kudos to Sabrent for having their own disk partition software. Acronis, which you can get from Sabrents website, will copy all of your files over for you verbatim; no reinstalling necessary. Follow the disk cloning prompts, and the best part is it will automatically increase the size of your main windows drive to maximum while keeping your boot partition and recovery partition intact (just make sure you chose the correct cloning prompt). Acronis alone makes it worth it to go with Sabrent. 5) The SP8 comes with a front and back metal sleave for the NVMe drive. YOU WILL NEED a #4 Torx screwdriver bit (very tiny!) to unscrew the drive and screw it back in. The metal casing snaps off (do so gently so as not to bend the casing). I cleaned off the thermal compound the old drive had, put in the Sabrent drive, re-applied some CPU thermal compound I already had, and put the casing back together, then screwed it back into the SP8. A lot of videos show using a thermal pad instead of re-using the Microsoft drive enclosure. I think the drive enclosure helps distribute heat evenly back into the SP8 chassis. I turned the SP8 on and it recognized me with all of my files intact without ever having to go into the BIOS the first time. I have been running normally for almost two weeks and not a single issue. Drive runs cool and fast. Works great and couldnt be happier. I hope this helps you out if you are on the fence!

I got this for my steam deck. Great performance and it’s a perfect replacement for the included drive

64Gb drive isnt enough space. It was on sale and with points on my card. I got it for 40 dollars. The installation is super easy. Work just fine.

I actually ordered this SSD before I ordered my Steam Deck. I ended up getting my Deck (64 gb) before the SSD so I ran games for a couple of days on SD card. Huge difference in load times when I upgraded to the SSD. Installing in Deck was fairly easy. I was able to get metal shield around SSD. 1 TB is a great size for the Steam Deck. It really is amazing how many games you can have on the Deck.

Edit, figured it all out, its in my thinkpad x1 nano gen1 (with extension) and Im getting much better throughput than the OEM 2240 drive. This is a solid upgrade! R 5.190G W 3.947G, huge increase over stock, about 3G/2.2G. .. Put it in an SSD to usb-c enclosure to get things ready to clone a laptop. The Acronis software downloaded from the sabrent website did not recognize the SSD. It suggested a firmware update. There is no firmware update on the site. So the software was not available as stated, no worries, lots of other options even the trial acronis, which worked great. Be careful with the case, theres a magnet in it for some reason, this can hurt some electronics and credit cards. No idea why they would put a magnet in the case.

I bought this to use in a Surface Pro 8 (i7, 16gb, 256gb) machine. The read/write speeds were incredible at first but the system quickly started developing hard freezes and rebooting. I reinstalled my previous drive and have not seen any problems since. To note, I tried some of the recommendations I found online regarding changes you need to make to power management and such but nothing seemed to work. The drive repeatedly led to hard freezes, reboots and even blue screens. For what its worth, the drive was crazy fast when it was working but I need to have a stable machine so Im returning this drive.

Worked great on my 64GB SteamDeck.Replace 1tb SSD i Received Original packaging. Great product that was easily installed. Working great so far!

Easy to install, upgraded from 256gb to 2T, definitely go for it if you can afford!

Had it installed and up an running in about 10 min.