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

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.

Like I said, this m.2 ssd is not compatible with the asus dimmm2 riser card. I have added a different m.2 and it worked like a charm but this 8tb, when I added it to the asus proprietary dimm2 riser card, it crash windows. I mean literally windows can load and tell me that it needs to restart. At time it would say repairing but then nothing. Not really sure who is at fault here between asus and sabrent. I have not contacted their support so I doing that too later. Steps taken: Updated the Asus strix ROG desktop bios firmware Tried to update the 8tb firmware but nothing is available in site (maybe because its so new) Tried to change the cpu setting but the asus strix rog desktop is crap when it comes to that. Dont get me wrong, the asus rog motherboards are good but their desktop does not offer the same feature as their prebuilt desktop. Tried to format the 8tb before attaching it again to the asus dimm2 riser card but still it crashed the OS. Did not even boot. I attach that 8tb in my asus rog laptop and it worked like a charm. I even low level format it and wipe it with 0 on all its space that took 5 hours and it didnt even bork. Moving forward: I am buying a pcie 3.0 with an m.2 m interface to connect the 8tb to my pc. This is because the expensive strix desktop does not have a spare m.2 slot. Ill be writing a bad review of that later. Will contact asus support Will escalate to sabrent support Will update this when I have done that and see if it works or not.

Have an Asus n580vd laptop with a Micron 256Gb Sata m.2 SSD. After reading a lot on some other pages found out the n580vd supports NVME even though Asus says it does not. I was going to get the Samsung 970 Pro but with the extra cost of the Samsung drive and the age of this laptop I went with the Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB. In my pics you can see the performance of the old Micron drive vs the new Sabrent. Night and day now. Installation was easy. I used the Wanfocyu USB Type C M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure Adapter from Amazon along with my EaseUS Partition manager software. PM noticed the new drive on startup and asked me if I wanted to clone. I adjusted the partitions to maximize the space and cloned right in Windows. Then swapped the drives and booted right back up. Temps are low and peak in the 50s under heavy test load. This was a perfect upgrade for this laptop!

Ive purchased other Sabrent products over the years--various cables, drive adapters, etc., and have always been pleased with the quality but I was more than a little hesitant to purchase a SSD--but the price was right so I decided to give it a try. I needed the drive for an external drive carrier and not as an internal drive for my computer. The drive arrived a day earlier than expected, had some of the best packaging Ive seen to date on ANY SSD--to include the Samsung drives that I usually use--it came in a small metal protective case with a foam rubber insert cut out just large enough to hold the drive securely in place--you could throw the package into a brick wall and I seriously doubt the drive would be dislodged. As to how it works--very fast as expected. I will probably be ordering a few more of these!

Ive got three of these now. Also have tried Samsung Evo Plus and Pro, this is the equivalent but runs cooler. Pro is faster for continuous random writes, but Sabrent Rocket Q is faster in every other category, so except for DB work Sabrent wins. For small short I/O it wins by a lot, for large, long transfers (video 2GB and larger) it starts to stutter as does the Samsung. The SK hynix Gold is also excellent for the price (used 1TB version waiting to try new 2TB version, but it priced higher than Sabrent/TB currently).

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

I will use the Sabrent SSD card in the Sabrent USB enclosure for fast backup of video and photos on the job site and then to transfer to my backup system at the office. Seems fast for transfer speeds and the enclosure is sturdy and compact - smaller than any other portable hard drive Ive used in the past.

This is very fast. I installed it on a 6 year old Windows 7 computer with no M.2 slot. I used a cheap M.2/PCIe adapter to get it to work. It took forever to install (dozens of reboots, updating motherboard BIOS, reseating the drive, etc.) because it wouldnt be recognized by Windows. I assumed that since Windows 7 added support for NVME drives about 5 years ago, it would be included in updates. No such luck (at least for me). The key was that FOR WINDOWS 7, YOU HAVE TO DOWNLOAD 2 HOTFIXES FOR AN NVME DRIVER (Sabrent support let me know about that; they responded in under an hour). Microsoft no longer lets you download the hotfix from their site; I was able to get it at sevenforums. I hate getting drivers/hotfixes from 3rd parties, but it did the trick! So this drive definitely gets 5 stars: I cant find a single flaw (aside from a tough installation, but that wasnt Sabrents fault).

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.

This was a learning curve for me since my motherboard is PCIe 2.0. After I received the drive I did a lot of research and bought and adapter card. Once installed it works perfectly as 1TB internal storage. Now that Im up to speed on this technology I might even build a newer computer with a state of the art motherboard that natively will support this. The packaging of the drive was about the best Ive seen. Fast ship and as advertised.