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 SSD is exactly what I wanted for my bulk gaming storage. It isnt as fast as my Samsung boot drive but its not supposed to be; it holds all of my games, saves, mods, and media files. Make no mistake, though, this is not slow. This drive puts to shame SATA SSDs no problem to say nothing of spinning rust. It would make a great boot drive. It would make a great video editing drive. It is stupid fast loading games. Are there faster drives? Absolutely - but not at this price and size.

First things first. QLC is not made for boot, it can, but its super volatile and will degrade faster. Treat this more as a spinning platter HDD and youll be good. Should be used as a storage drive. Its expensive, since its the tech and the size of the stick that makes it expensive. NOW if this were in a 2.5IN form factor with larger NAND PACKETS, it would be more robust. BUT... QLC is not robust. I bought this for my absurdist PC build in my podcast room. I had a lot of money and I wanted to build the most expensive PC I could buy with non-server parts (since then you could totally break the 20+K mark, I only spent 15K on it. PC: ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha MOBO 256GB Kingston 32000MT RAM RTX 3090 (since the TI wasnt out then) AMD TRx4 3990x 4tb Sabrant BOOT Gen 4 TLC 8TB (x2) Sabrant Storage Gen 3 Drives. Needless to say with a total of 20TB on my motherboard alone and the ability to expand that even more if so-choose. Yeah, Im happy with this purchase. To those complaining about a missing terabyte, I agree, thats annoying but thats how the game is played. Just like 8K is really closer to 7.5K and 4K is 3.8K. Supposedly has to do with partitioning and raid tables. IF I had to guess, theyre saving 1TB for redundancy purposes and to increase the life of an already more volatile form of NVME. Meaning in case of a failure, its double writing up to a Terabyte to a private sector, so it can be recovered. Also like in lithium cells best not to fully populate SSDs/NANDS. Think of it as a library with a lot of shelves, you need aisle space to fetch the memory, but the more shelves of data you put in it, the harder it is to get to the books, but in return youre able to store more memory. And this is 4 shelves per rack meaning theyre super tall and wobbly. The more you call from this QLC the more chance of bumping the shelf and knocking it over. AKA corrupting the data. And when one goes, the whole thing goes, like dominoes. Conclusion: BUY IT if you need a lot of memory in a tiny space, ARE NOT using it as a boot drive, and accept that the speeds are slower due to the type of RAID programmed on its controller. As an ARCHIVAL DRIVE, this is great. (Backing up old photos, videos and documents). HECK YEAH its expensive. Remember 30 years ago, the concept of 1GB was absurd, now were dealing with 8TBs. I would definitely recommend since at the time of purchase Sabrant were the only people crazy enough to put out an 8TB NVME drive. Heck they were one of the few 4TB NVME manufacturers as well, havent checked up to see if more companies put them out. If you need the space, within this absurdly small footprint. I dont know, pretty hard to suggest anything else. Since it doesnt really exist.

I used this Nvme drive to upgrade my laptop which is Lenovo Flex 5. I couldnt find any way to clone original drive with this I mean I didnt have any hardwares for this particular scenerio. so I just removed the old drive and install the Sabrent Rocket Q to laptops motherboard. Then I Installed the OS to the laptop via USB stick it took about 10 minutes or so. OS licence or any other personal info was automatically takes their places without any effort. It was quite easier than I expected.

Fast, easy to install, no screw. Speed, boot time for me is 12-13sec now with 3250mbs read and 2000mbs write. I cloned this pc 3 times. 1st time WD HDD boot time 49sec. 2nd time sandisk 2.5 sata ssd that had 400mb read and 220mbs write boot time 17sec. So now boot time is slightly faster but I dont really notice the real life difference in anything else from the sata ssd even though its 10x faster. Just saying that because you probably dont need to spend an extra $100 for something that says its 4000mbs a sec instead of 3000mbs. there probably is very little real life difference. I bought a heat sink because it came with a screw I needed and I never put it on because its not running hot. Vary happy with the purchase

Cheapest name brand 1TB NVMe. QLC out there I could find. Absolutely crushes the OEM 256GB Samsung SATA based ssd that comes with stock with the macbook. If you want to run this on a Macbook, you will need to get an adapter (sold separately) which range from 5$ to 15$ with the caveat that you will need a different mounting screw (which is not provided by this package) Longevity of NVMe QLC is still not battle tested yet, but for the price I think i can live with backing up my data to time machine on a NAS once a week. build quality of the drive seems solid, no rough edges on the board from cost cutting on manufacturing, the plate on the top with the company logo is not a sticker as I had originally thought when looking at the image. It is a 1mm ish copper plate heat shield/dissipator. So far under load tests, and heavy load usage (rendering and software development), so far, I cannot tell if there is more heat being generated by the drive vs OEM samsung with no heat shield. Will keep an eye on it, since the low profile of the drive allows for another 1-2mm of clearance for a low profile heatsink. I attached a speed test benchmark, I could not get the speeds advertised by the drive, but again, its running in OSX Catalina which was not its intended target market, so i can forgive it with some performance losses. (attached are my benchmarks) I can say though, it was pretty consistent on the 5GB sustained load tests outputting relatively consistent numbers of ~1700-1800 write and ~2500-2800 read. Overall - satisfied with the initial results, performance is 2-3X oem apple samsung drive that comes with the machine.

I picked this 1TB Sabrent NVMe because I was upgrading a Mac Pro 4,1>5,1 and the Samsung 970 was more expensive. I wasnt sure if Id get it to be a bootable drive. Earlier attempts to upgrade from High Sierra to Mojave failed due to the fact that my current boot drive was 2-500GB Samsung 860 SATA SSDs on an PCIe card. Mojave wont allow an installation to a RAID drive. I attached the Sabrent to an Inatek PCIe card (shown without the heatsink attached). I used Carbon Clone Copier to clone that SSD to the Sabrent Rocket. Then was able to install Mojave on it. After that I held down option during reboot (a flashed Radeon R9 280X GPU), and it booted just fine! Not sure if the boot up speed is faster... I think its about the same as the SSD (although that was a RAID 0 drive). But now on 5 days and no issues at all. Im not that into specs like read/write speeds vs. other brands, some might be. This isnt a review of which is fastest/best, but my personal experience

This drive has worked perfectly. Great price and performance.

Was using this drive and mostly enjoyed it. It lost a bit of a performance over the 2 years but overall I was satisfied. Then out of nowhere, it was unreadable by my computer. And then I tried to erase and reformat it, to which it had an error on 3 different devices and could not be formatted and now it simply does not show up on any device when plugged in via enclosure or internally. Will definitely be looking into the warranty on this one. *Update* would not honor the 5 year warranty because I didnt register the product within 90 days of buying it. Definitely lame customer service and a lame outcome. Id recommend going with something that will last and will be replaced if it fails.

Good NVME for the price, vast improvement over HHD. Plug in and go.

I got this cause I wanted a fast ssd I could rely on to boot Windows 10 but also decent capacity for the msot demanding applications so the 1TB version was the right one for me. The speed and quality so far is as good as a Samsung Evo ssd those are considered among the best but this brand is performs just as good really, while being cheaper and the ssd comes packed in a fancy little metal case. I;d recommend this ssd for anyone building their PC or upgrading their storage and boot drive, if the high capacity models seem to expensive I;d suggest getting a lower capacity one you can afford what you want is to boot Windows from it, then get a cheap 2 TB or greater jard drive for storing games and media. Definitely would order this again for future builds.