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

I installed it and cloned my smaller C: drive over to this and it worked great. Then one day I started my PC and the desktop had reverted back to an old layout without me doing so. So I just happen to be looking at my drives in windows explorer and I noticed that the Sabrent was no where to be found and I was operating on my old small C: drive again. After several hours of messing around in the drive manager and with a 3rd party software, I was able to get the computer and windows to recognize the 1 TB Sabrent again. I once again cloned my old C: drive to the Sabrent, just like I did before. However this time, the drive could not be made bootable, though I tried several times with various 3rd party programs, it wouldnt take. Finally I shut down the PC and attempted to restart it.... 3 times. Finally I removed the Sabrent from the PC and the computer started normally with the OLD C: drive. I have heard on a number of occasions that SSD drives can crash like this. Boot sector trashed and the only thing to do is snap the thing in half and buy a new one. Very disappointed and Im beyond the point of returning it and even if I could, its a clone of my drive and has my data on it, so I couldnt return it. Like I said, Ive done this before and Im not a noob. The bottom line is that what I have here is a 1 TB SSD that I can no longer use. Very disappointed.

I bought the Sabrent Rocket Q as a replacement for an aging 1TB SATA drive. Installing it was fairly easy. I initially tried using Windows 10 full image restore to copy my existing windows 10 install onto the new drive, but Windows 10 wouldnt let me transfer a BIOS windows 10 backup to an ACHI drive. But fear not! Thats when the Acronis True Image Sabrent software came in handy. It detected my new drive, issued me a license, and allowed my to clone my existing drives Windows 10 install to the new drive without a problem. After waiting for the clone to complete, I unplugged the old drive and my new drive booted into windows in a few seconds*. An amazing increase in performance for money compared to say, upgrading a video card or processor! * Note that if you change other components on your machine other than the hard drive (motherboard, CPU, video card), Windows 10 will detect this and nag you about your license. Dont think you can just make a bunch of clones of Windows for different machines.

I needed to beef up the storage in my laptop that conveniently has 2 spots to accept this type of storage, so I dropped the money on getting the 4TB version of the Rocket, which was the largest at the time. Having used this for about a year, I can solidly say it was well worth the money. Ive never had one issue with access, everything is always lightning fast, and I have never noticed any overheating issues. It was very easy to install and configure, and having that much storage has been incredible. Like humans always do, my storage needs have grown to fill the space that Ive gotten, so Ill probably replace the 1 TB system drive I already had with the 8TB model from Rocket before long. There are cheaper 4 (and 8) TB drives out there, but this one is a proven performer and Im not willing to gamble on something inferior just to save a few bucks. I cant recommend this thing more. Particularly if you are upgrading from a mechanical drive to one of these, you will not regret going to a SSD. Power off to ready to use is less than 10 seconds on my laptop, as compared to a minute or 2 previously with a mechanical drive. You definitely wont regret this upgrade.

The Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe SSD is a good choice as an Apple Time Machine drive for data backup. My system is a 2018 15 in. MacBook Pro with 2.2GHz 6-core i7 drive, 16 GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD internal drive, running Catalina macOS 10.15.4. For more than a year, I had been using a 4TB WD MyPassport external drive for Time Machine backups, but I grew frustrated with its sloooooow data transfer. I bought the Rocket Q and installed it in an SSK aluminum enclosure (ASIN B07MNFH1PX). The installation was easy and the drive was running as soon as I plugged the USB-C cable into my Mac. I did have to reformat the drive using the Disk Utility app, but that only took a minute or two. Setting the drive up for Time Machine was easy also. All I had to do was open Time Machine in System Preferences, click on Select Disk..., and follow the on-screen instructions. More detailed instructions can be found on Apples website. The initial backup of the full 277 GB of data on my internal drive only took 45 minutes. The one-time encryption of the drive took another three hours. This is a huge improvement over initial backup and encryption with my WD MyPassport, which started one afternoon, ran overnight, and into the next morning. Now that the Rocket Q drive has received the initial backup and encryption, the maintenance backups only take a minute or two. The WD drive, in contrast, could take more than an hour to perform a single routine backup. Thats an extraordinary improvement! The only caveat I offer is that the initial backup and encryption made the Rocket Q heat up to the extent that I was worried it would shut down. So I placed the drive atop a block of Blue Ice, and that kept the temperature under control. The regular hourly backups also generate a lot of heat, but nowhere near as much as for that first set-up. Im looking into swapping the SSK enclosure for something that has cooling fins. Or maybe Ill use thermal glue to attach heatsink fins to the SSK. That issue aside, this Rocket Q is extraordinarily efficient to the point at which I dont even realize that its there. Im really happy I invested in it. Update 11/22/20: After seven months, this system is still working well. I solved the heat problem by using Gennel thermal glue to attach Antrader Aluminum Heatsink cooling fins to the SSK enclosure. That seems to dissipate the heat effectively.

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 have used this brand exclusively to upgrade customers computers needing a NVME drive, until now. A routine short self-test on the drive in a Dell Gaming laptop caused a violent blue screen followed by the motherboard no longer recognizing anything attached to the NVME port. As if it didnt exist. Luckily, computer has accident protection and Dell will be fixing the machine. I thought this was a glitch. So, I tried another identical Sabrent drive on a different Dell computer, this time it was an XPS machine. Again, a routine short self-test on the drive caused a blue screen. At least, this time the port was still functional. So, I tried a different brand NVME and the self-test ran without any issues. I dont know whether new Dell systems have introduced a set of computer commands that cause incompatibility with the drive but at this time I am abstaining from buying this brand and stick with the brand that works for me. If the issue is fixed down the road, I would be back to buy it again.

**Please read update** I bought 2 Sabrant rockets. One for my gaming omen laptop, and the other one for my main desktop. 2 months down the line the one in my desktop starts to having bootloops and driver errors (specifically bugcode ndis driver). Im not sure if it its a lemon or not, but whatever it is I cant even load windows onto it anymore. I took it to the repair shop to diagnose the problem. Turns out the drive itself is refusing to load a clean installation of Windows 10. As it only loaded from another m.2 drive. I dont know what Sabrants policy is for this particular model, or Amazon but all I know is Im out of $200 plus dollars on one of their drives. Thanks to a very rare issue. Update: After a few weeks of using it I came to the conclusion that Microsoft was more or less responsible for this mess. Do to a driver update gone bad.

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).

item performs well, super easy to install. linus tech tips did a video on this exact product breaking it down in more detail if your interested in more info about it. just remember to change your bios settings if you plan on running windows off of it, that was my only problem with is drive is that i forgot to set it to UEFI before installing windows. besides that it was plug and play. games load super fast, windows is snappy, installs are lightning fast, and shipping was quick got here in about a week. great product, highly recommended.

Have had this under heavy use on a build host for several months. It remains the fastest storage device Ive ever used and has seen no trouble.