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

what I like about it is that whenever I wanna play games or I have important files I use SSD better than using a USB or cloud storage so yeah its cool.

I got this on black friday sale for about 50% off the 2TB versus in 2021. Great deal for the drive capacity. Works great as primary drive in my laptop. The setup was extremely easy, I brought an extrenal m.2 to usb c from sabrent at the same time, and the drive came with software to clone the original drive to another drive. Worked flawlessly, cloned, popped the new drive in and its worked great thus far.

I edit tons of 4K footage and needed an upgrade from the 256GB Samsung 970 EVO that came in my laptop. Installation was super simple and Im flying! No more waiting for SSDs or spinning disk drives to catch up and load my 4K footage in Premiere Pro. Just wish my laptop had more M.2 ports so I could add more! Image attached is from a recent test with CrystalDiskMark. Very happy as these speeds are about 20-30x faster than using an external HDD attached to USB 3.0 port (G-Drive is what Id been using).

I built my latest computer in October 2019, using a Sabrent black 256gb NVMe SSD. I wanted to upgrade to 1tb in preparation for Flight Simulator 2020. I ordered this Sabrent white label as the reviews were good and speed seemed more than adequate for my needs. As I have a NVMe SSD external enclosure, I figured I could insert the new drive in the enclosure, plug into USB3 on my computer, then clone old drive to the new one. Boy was I wrong! The new drive was NOT recognized by Disk Management, Device Manager, or File Explorer! I tried everything I could think of (Im fairly knowledgeable about computers), even installing inn second M.2 port on MB, but it just wasnt recognized. Thinking the drive was bad, I requested a replacement from Amazon which arrived the next day! With high hopes, I repeated steps from previous day with same results. Thinking it unlikely that TWO drives could be bad, I Googled with no luck and didnt find anything on Sabrent site to address this problem. I decided to reread some of the negative reviews of this drive on Amazon. It turns out - according to one reviewer who contacted Sabrent with identical problem, that you must use a Sabrent SSD enclosure ($45) OR install the SSD into the main M.2 NVMe port on MB for it to work! So, biting the bullet, I removed old Sabrent drive, installed the new one, the fired up computer with Windows 10 installation USB. Voila! It was recognized, formatted, accepted Windows 10 pro installation with no problem, and is working great now that I reinstalled all of my programs again. So, unless I overlooked something, it appears that the ads for this drive should point out the necessity of using a Sabrent enclosure OR only using as a new install. If you already own a NVMe SSD external enclosure, it may not allow the Sabrent drive to be recognized.

I bought this to replace an existing Samsung 950 Pro 512. Though nothing is wrong with the EVO, I just needed more room to run MSFS2020 as it ate up all my available space with updates and massive add-ons on the Samsung EVO. Ive been reading some of the reviews here and it seems there is more complaining of the Free cloning software and less reviewing of the actual Drive. My thoughts are, if your not skilled enough to plug a drive in, configure/format if needed and install an OS, you should not be inside a PC...take it to someone who knows what they are doing. So Far, a clean install of Windows 10, my required applications, and of course FS2020...everything is functioning like a charm. Speed tests boasts a bit better than my old Samsung Pro 950. I didnt get rid of the Samsung, I bought a PCIe to M.2 (2280) adapter ($13) and plugged the drive in as a secondary storage. So that all worked out well. Aside from the ugly blue label on the drive, I dont have any negatives to provide at this time. This drive, IMO, is an excellent upgrade for my needs and performs stellar as of this writing. No Free cloning software used so you wont here me gripe about a free product that was included and dismiss the whole product as bad like many did here.

Been using 3 of these for zfs raid for a few weeks now. Hardware performance has been great and capacity cant be matched by any other vendor at the moment in this form factor. Was concerned about the dual format for 512b/4k sectors. I definitely wanted 4k for zfs and bought a separate Sabrent USB enclosure to make sure they were properly formatted before installation. The software is junk. It has some hard coded 10 minute timeouts on its formats, which is easy to reach on an 8tb drive. Luckily, it will keep formatting after the timeout and you can continue after restarting the software. Also, for those expecting the 512b sector size for any performance reason, its really 512e, which is just a comaptability layer and not a real 512b sector size.

When I got the SSD Nvme, I simply opened up my case, found my M.2 SSD Nvme slot on the motherboard, unscrewed the M.2 cover, plugged the SSD into the M.2 slot, replaced cover and closed case. (~3minutes) Powered on my PC, Windows 10 detected the drive automatically, Click Start -> type disk management, click on new SSD Nvme drive and format it with default settings. (~2minutes) New drive works great. Superfast. I mean, wow. Much faster than my Samsung SSD drive on a SATA bus.

buy it cause its good and at a decent price

Transfer speeds are nowhere near what was advertised. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0 (C) 2007-2019 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes [Read] Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 1444.111 MB/s [ 1377.2 IOPS] < 5801.79 us> Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 977.174 MB/s [ 931.9 IOPS] < 1071.23 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 539.718 MB/s [ 131767.1 IOPS] < 3826.67 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 24.623 MB/s [ 6011.5 IOPS] < 165.51 us> [Write] Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 99.609 MB/s [ 95.0 IOPS] < 81800.55 us> Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 331.101 MB/s [ 315.8 IOPS] < 3160.81 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 339.293 MB/s [ 82835.2 IOPS] < 6062.79 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 136.821 MB/s [ 33403.6 IOPS] < 29.63 us> Profile: Default Test: 32 MiB (x1) [Interval: 5 sec] <DefaultAffinity=DISABLED> Date: 2020/07/03 16:48:51 OS: Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 10240] (x64)

Bought this to put into a 2020 Dell G5 laptop (RTX model with the larger battery, which only includes a second 2280 m2 slot and now HDD port). It works great! No issues. People are complaining about the software which I dont understand. You have to format the drive through Windows disk utility as always before using. It will work with an external enclosure, its just you must have an m.2 nvme enclosure thats compatible with the 2280 size. You might also have to plug the drive into the board for Windows Disk Utility to find it, then format it, remove it and place it in the enclosure... I bought for internal use and had it up and running in about 5-minutes.