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

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.

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.

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.

I purchased this for a Dell XPS 15 7590 to upgrade the included 256G NVME with this 1TB drive. Dell tacks on about $400 for this option so this ends up saving me about $300. It was a brand new laptop so I had created a recovery image from Windows beforehand. Installation was easy enough: remove a few screws and replace the drive. I booted from the recovery USB and let it run through the installation, which took about 30 minutes. Once done, I logged back and checked that space available. There is a custom version of Acronis cloning software available from the link on the box. Once booted, the only weird thing is that the Windows Device Manager still shows the drive as a KIOXIA 256M. I tried updating the driver but no change. It doesnt appear to affect anything though. Speed seems fine. I cant see much of a difference versus the original drive, but I didnt run any actual tests. Capacity is much better though. This is because, on that 256G drive, a large portion is taken up by the recovery partition, some Dell app partition, and a boot partition so usable space was less than 200G once Windows is installed. All said, Im happy with this upgrade. Ive purchsed other Sabrent drives and theyve held up fine.

Very solid SSD running windows 10 and none raid set up. I picked these up in January 2020 then a second in June 2020 for $114 usd then $270 3 months later. Price tends to fluctuate a lot. As for the games I am the first to load into games like tarkov and squad with a fair bit of ram to load files from. I recommend these to my friends but I would wait for a price drop as pre covid they where best bang for your buck. Easy to install and pick up mounting items, my mother board did not come with mounting screws so I had to order a kit for 6 bucks here on Amazon. Would suggest saving a pair of chop sticks for the install to not worry about static discharges. Or hemostat forceps work great aswell I just have rubber gloves I rock when I use metal around my rig.

Outstanding speed! Its nearly twice as fast as my old SATA3 SSD. And users upgrading from a conventional hard drive will be absolutely blown away. From a cold start my machine is booted and ready in under 20 seconds. Physical installation is a bit of a chore, as I had to remove the CPU heatsink in order to expose the M.2 connection. In order to remove the heatsink, I had to remove the heatsink fan. In order to remove the heatsink fan, I had to remove all of the RAM. In order to remove the RAM, I had to unplug a bunch of cables that were in the way. And then put it all back together in reverse order when I was done. The one downside to this drive is the instructions assumed a perfectly smooth installation and didnt account for anything going wrong. This is more a fault of my motherboard than anything, but I feel the manufacturer shouldve been aware of this possibility, and come up with some contingencies. Instead I spent the evening researching the problem on my own time. My motherboard had an M.2 connector, but the BIOS wouldnt recognize it. I had to first flash my BIOS with the most recent version. Then disconnect all other drives but the M.2. Boot off a Windows installation flash drive and install a fresh copy of windows onto it. The Windows installer was able to see the M.2 drive even though the BIOS couldnt. Once the fresh copy of windows was installed, finally my BIOS could recognize it. I connected all my drives back up, cloned C to the new M.2, then rebooted and set the M.2 as the boot disk. I dont regret the purchase at all, this is a great drive. Just maybe research your motherboards compatibility ahead of time to see if anyone has had problems with an M.2, since apparently just having the physical connection isnt a guarantee your BIOS will see it. I did install a 1TB version on my friends PC and it went a lot smoother. The BIOS recognized the drive immediately, I installed it, cloned C, and had the machine closed up and put back together in under 2 hours.

I have enjoyed using it, it has great space and doesnt rake up much space. After 1 year of usage it has died just outside of warranty range. For those that do e d up getting this drive I would highly recommend registering it with sabrent to get upto a 5 year warranty.

buy it cause its good and at a decent price

This review is for the Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD High Performance Solid State Drive R/W 3300/2900MB/s (SB-RKTQ-8TB) (Amazon needs to stop its despicable practice of combining reviews of what it considers to be similar products!). I was dismayed when I first received the SSD in a cheap, folded up bubble wrap envelope until I saw the package inside the envelope. Nothing there was especially remarkable until one opens the box and removes what is inside. Inside was a very sturdy, deep drawn, aluminum box about the size of a 2.5 SSD, except its 13mm thick, with fairly dense removable foam padding to protect the SSD inside. One could drive a car over this box and not damage the SSD inside (or the box). I had no trouble formatting this as GPT ext4 for use in a Linux Mint laptop. Installation in the laptop was quick and easy. The SSD itself uses QLC NAND. Since more data is stored per cell, the SSD will have a shorter write life than TLC and MLC SSDs. Also, since each cell is more crowded, data leakage will start happening sooner than with TLC and MLC NAND. However, the TBW rating is still high enough that most people will never come close to exceeding the the TBW rating or experience data leakage during the five year warranty period. The warranty is one year when first purchased but can be upgraded for no charge to five years if the SSD is registered within 90 days of the purchase date. Registering also allows you to upload a copy of the receipt to be kept on file should you lose your copy, which is needed should you need to file a warranty claim. Despite the higher speed of NVMe drives over SATA, I do not recommend this drive for a boot drive unless your computer has room for only one drive and you also need the extraordinary capacity this drive offers. Its better suited for static data storage that is infrequently written but frequently read. I recommend this drive for compact, high capacity, relatively static data storage installed inside a computer. It would not be suitable for use as an external drive unless the drive was powered up frequently and mostly read rather than written to. I chose this drive over the only other 8TB SSD Im aware of (a 2.5 SATA model), despite being QLC, for its longer warranty, large capacity, and because it allowed me to keep one of the 2.5 bays in my laptop free for another purpose. Once data has been written to the drive, it will be mostly read only with the only writes being when occasionally adding new data. Since the drive will be powered up frequently and have few writes, it should outlast the warranty without loss of data. My laptop is running on Linux Mint 19.3 booted from an MLC NVMe drive. I have a 4TB 2.5 MLC SSD for data frequently accessed, written, edited, and deleted. TRIM works on this drive. Im currently populating the drive with data from two 4TB SSDs. To allow me to use my current 4TB SSD backup drives, I partitioned the drive into two equal sized partitions. It took around 18 hours to populate one partition with 3.225TB of data. Transfer speed from a 2.5 4TB MLC SSD was throttled by SATA interface of the source drive so there was no speed advantage to be gained by the NVMe drive for me. Even when being read inside the computer, there will be no noticeable speed advantage unless working with enormous files (say 50GB-100GB or more), which I will not be doing. Drive temperature during population never exceeded 35°C with a 25.5° ambient temperature and no heat sink on the SSD. Normally, one wants to maintain 20-25% free space on an SSD to help ensure minimal fragmentation (yes, SSDs fragment but that will be kept to a level an SSD can easily handle as long as TRIM is enabled and there is plenty of free space on the drive). Generally, the more often a drive will be written to, the greater amount of free space one wants to maintain. Since my drive will be mostly read only, I can get away with maintaining the lower limit of free space. The one partition I have fully populated is only 80.6% full so there is plenty of free space there. The partition Im currently slowly populating will not reach maximum usable capacity for quite some time. Even though I copied data from the source drive to the remaining partition on the Sabrent in fairly small batches to avoid overflowing the cache, I saw a noticeable slowdown in write speed as it approached 50% capacity. For my use, this wont be a problem because future writes will usually be under 10GB (very occasionally, up to 25GB) and will be one time events, the data then being read only after being written. Its still faster than SATA and is more than fast enough for watching movies.

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