SABRENT Rocket Q 1TB NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD High Performance Solid State Drive R/W 3200/2000MB/s (SB-RKTQ-1TB)

This drive has worked perfectly. Great price and performance.

I love storage space. The more the better! Its frustrating that Nvmes have taken so long to advance in the amount of storage space, but I always want to be at the forefront. Lo and behold Sabrents 8TB behemoth! Perfect timing just as I was getting rid of my desktop and going all in on a Dell XPS 15 9500 and eGPU setup. Ive never bought a Sabrent drive as I am a Samsung and Western Digital fanboy, but Ill throw anyone under the bus if it means getting the best of the best. Additionally, based on Sabrents products and reviews, they seem to be fairly well liked. After cutting my fingers and bleeding all over my new XPS 9500... I finally got the way too hard for its own good bottom case off to get started on this epic install! 8 hours later... Yup, it doesnt work. The current XPS 15 9500 BIOS doesnt support it. Thanks Uncle Dell! All the blood, sweat, and tears... literally... for nothing. So anyway, theres really not much to say about this drive... Im sure if you have a compatible mobo youre all set for that glorious amounts of storage space. The one sketchy thing I will mention is that Sabrent claims that this item and their other Rocket Q drives are almost exactly the same (the drives with a darker ton instead of white)... apparently this is not the case. The darker toned Sabrent drives arent just a little fast they also have much better longevity and longer warranty. With that said, I doubt Ill ever keep any drive long enough to ever see it at the end of its life cycle. But just throwing out the info in the ether in case anyone finds it helpful. Oh and one more thing... dont rock this thing without a heatsink. I couldnt measure temps because I couldnt boot, but when taking it on and off, I easily could have used it to cauterize my cut up fingers. This unit gets toasty. Best case scenario... I hope some other intrepid XPS 15 9500 owner out there who is hungry for 8TBs finds this information useful so you dont have to go through returning a $1500 item in USPS First Class... and bloody fingers. Worst case scenario, I just crushed your dreams.

Updated storage in my (very) aging i3930k, Asus x79 Sabertooth system. Performance numbers listed in the screenshots above are with Silverstone ECM20 expansion card. A quick note for those that have chipsets below z99 (like x79, z87 etc): older BIOS implementations do not have native support for NVME boot. If you want to boot your system from the NVME, and have an older board like I do, you will need to update to a manually patched BIOS that has NVME modules in it (google for it). Once you are done with the BIOS, the rest of boot process will need to be locked to UEFI. I.e. Make sure your USB stick is formatted for UEFI boot as well or you wont be able to install bootable OS.

Im a professional photographer and shoot with a medium format 100 megapixel camera and use a Dell Precision 7540 mobile workstation when I travel (which is quite often). The 7540 has 3 internal NVMe M.2 slots for SSD storage and came with three 512GB SSDs. I had previously upgraded two of those SSDs to Samsung EVO 970+ 2TB SSDs and the upgrade was easy and took about an hour including the time to clone the SSDs to an external drive, swap in the new modules and clone the data back. Because my photo image files are huge (~210MB each) I have always used an external drive and had been using an Oyen Digital 4TB SSD but after reading reviews of the Sabrent 8TB, I decided to pay the high price and swap out the last of the three 512GB modules for the Sabrent so I wouldnt need the external drive when I travel. Because the upgrade to the Samsung modules was so easy and this third module was a data drive, not the system drive, I expected the upgrade to be easy. Boy was I wrong! I cloned the data to an external drive, swapped out the module and booted my PC and proceeded to watch it go into an infinite loop of detecting a problem, trying to fix it, rebooting... repeat. After about a half hour of watching this I decided it wasnt going to fix itself. For a reality check, I put the original module back in and rebooted, the pc went through one autofix cycle and then booted fine. Thinking maybe I hadnt properly seated the new module, I swapped it back in but it again went into the infinite reboot loop. So I swapped the original module back in again and let the pc self heal then started doing google searches to see if I could figure out the problem. After spending a lot of time trying different search terms, I finally came across an article saying that with previous Sabrent products the BIOS had to be changed to disable RAID. So I made the change, reinstalled the new module yet again and tried to boot. It again went through a few repair/reboot cycles and then finally booted into windows. Thinking everything may finally be working, I cloned the data onto the new drive and did some non-critical work to see if it would remain stable. Using the Disk Management utility, it seemed like the drive was randomly disappearing and reappearing. I ran some diagnostics and everything seemed ok but I still wasnt sure if the installation was successful. I let it sit overnight and in the morning the workstation was locked up which had never happened before. I ran some repair utilities and rebooted a few more times and after almost two complete days of trying to do this simple upgrade, things seemed to start settling down and I wasnt seeing the random dropouts. I let it sit powered on overnight again and this time the system seemed fine in the morning. Since then, the system has been stable so I credit Microsoft & Dell with having reasonable good self-healing programs. So after the install, I can say Im very happy to have the 8TB internal drive and performance seems quite good. The Dell 7540 is a very powerful workstation and is now much faster than my 2 1/2 year old desktop. And processing my huge image files (especially if I stitch together panoramas) is fast. So I give it 3 stars because it shouldnt take 2 complete days to swap in a new SSD module but at least it seems to be working fine now and gives me the performance I need. I notified Sabrent support the first business day after I got it working and they seemed to be clueless. When I talked with Dell, they said they had not done any testing with Sabrent which shocked me as I would have expected Sabrent to work with Dell since my setup seems to be in the sweet spot of their target market.... This upgrade should give me at least a year before I need to add more storage so by then I hope Samsung has something in the same capacity.

This is for my first ever gaming/streaming pc i build for the first time. It has 2 TB of storage and will be used for secondary games or videos. ATM, I aint really using the space but it is great to have for the future. SAMSUNG 980 PRO 1TB is my main boot drive by the way if anyone is wondering. I have no issues with this in my Dark Hero Motherboard. Edit: Update March 3rd, 2021 I Just wanted to mention to purchase when it goes on a sale. I got mines for $187 for example.

Very happy with the Sabrent drives I own and have purchased.

Got 2x 2TB Rocket Q to replace my 870 Evo 1TB. Used the free copy of Aconis from Sabrent website to mirror over my 2x Evo data with zero issues. I have not done any brenches yet, I did not notice any performance difference vs the Evo when moving any 25+ GB files. I transfer 110GB from one drive to the next and it took100 seconds from start to finish. This was done when I was streaming online. The sticker is a copper, you can see it from the side edge of the sticker. I have not had any issues with either drive. Item came in its own metal protective case. With my experience right now I would recommend Sabrent to all my tech buddies.

This is the first nvme that i bought on my first PC. I used a cloning program to transfer my ssd disk into the new nvme, it worked flawlessly.i don’t know if every nvme comes packaged this way, but the packaging is very nice and gives a nice presentation. Overall speed has been great, have had no problems playing games or booting windows. Windows now boots faster and the ssd that i had is now being used as a secondary storage. Note: I did not use any of sabrent apps to clone my disk

Ive spent well over a thousand on purchasing Sabrent SSDs and this is by far one of the best and competitive SSDs I ever used. They are not only competitive in pricing but quite reliable. I usually buy two at a time to configure them to Raid 0 and every laptop I own runs very fast and smooth. Excellent choice for gamers.

SO glad i bought it. top speed and reliable.