Sabrent Rocket 500GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2-2280 Internal Solid State Drive

This thing is nuts. Crazy fast. I'm not running bench marks or anything, but I loaded Windows 10 on it and I've never seen a system boot up so fast. Blows my mind every time. I'm used to waiting a while and then getting into windows and then its still thinking for a while. This one is just zap! Done! Very cool. Only game I've installed is Diablo 3, all my other games will be on steam and are waiting for another sabrent NVME M.2 drive, this time PCIE 3.0 QLC 2tb. Diablo 3 runs great. I've had bad luck w SSD drives connected by SATA. They just don't work or die early. My firecuda 2tb hybrid ssd drive could never even be detected, was causing electrical problems, blinking rgb lights or computer turning off, so forget it. I ordered another sabrent nvme drive for my other m.2 slot, about the cheapest 2tb NMVE one for games PCIE 3.0, because now I trust that they work, not the fastest of its kind but super fast. I don't trust SSD and mechanical drives are too big and slow and louder, so I'm paying some more for what I know will work. Should not improve gaming too much from what I hear, maybe loading times idk, I just need it to work and didn't want a mechanical drive. Done with SSDs connected by SATA chords. Plugging storage straight to the motherboard now. I have a ROG Strix-E motherboard so it has thermal pads w fan and covering to cool both m.2 drives already. Should be fine. Sabrent is a brand I've only now heard of. If these two drives continue to impress me like the first one has so far, for the last few weeks, and not crap out right away, I will really trust and recommend Sabrent drives in the future. So far so good!

I will likely be updating this review, as I built a brand new PC and would like to write a comprehensive review regarding all components. However, the review will include individual product reviews as well, so let this be the first of the lot. I'll keep it simple for now.First and foremost: this drive is great. It's stupid fast, looks nice, and so far, I've had zero problems.That said, I'm also a first time NVMe user, so take that with a grain of salt. Even an SSD drive would have been a substantial upgrade for me, so it's hard to fully gauge the quality of this product.Which brings me to the only "cons"/concerns I have.1) Assembling the heatsink felt a bit sketchy. The amount of pressure I had to apply in order to align the screws correctly was much greater than I'd have expected. Even with said pressure, two of the screws barely caught thread and anchored properly. If you've got arthritis or low hand strength, a vise might be appropriate...2) So far, I've yet to see even a whiff of the read/write speed the drive boasts (while still seeing 2,000+ MB/sec on benchmarks, which seems in-line with most NVMe drives). While that doesn't really upset me, seeing as it's ridiculously fast anyway, my X570 + Ryzen 7 3700X *should* be able to take advantage of it -- I just haven't seen it yet. Perhaps that's just a limitation of the benchmark software I've used so far (largely UserBenchmark for anything other than the CPU/GPU), but it's worth noting *for now.* If I ever see a file transfer/benchmark that reveals the boasted 5,000MB/sec, I will most certainly update this.3) With the above point in mind, I highly recommend you go with the 1TB version at minimum. My benchmark has fallen substantially since I first ran it, and I suspect it's because of the limited storage I have left for sequential writes. Furthermore, the 1TB+ versions seem to have better specs overall.Last thoughts for this initial review: my first benchmark on UserBenchmark put this drive at some 380% efficiency, ranking my PC as a UFO across the board. That is a tremendous score. While it has fallen to "below expected" versus other benches using this drive on my latest bench, it hasn't seen any real-world performance issues. I again suspect it's entirely because of the remaining space on the drive.Do I recommend the Sabrent Rocket 4? I definitely do. Just don't make my mistake and think that because you were only using ~170GB of total data on your previous PC that you won't suddenly end up with almost twice that with the increase in power/performance/ability to actually play modern games/use intensive apps, haha.

I'm extremely happy with my purchase of the SABRENT 2TB Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 SSD. It's a beast of a drive that delivers blazing-fast performance and plenty of storage space for all my games and files. It was easy to install on my motherboard that supports PCIe 4.0, and it came with a free cloning software that helped me transfer my data from my old drive.The SABRENT Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 SSD has an impressive sequential read speed of up to 5,000 MBps and a sequential write speed of up to 4,400 MBps, which is much faster than any SATA or PCIe 3.0 SSD I've ever used. It also has a high endurance rating of up to 3,600 TBW, which means it will last me for years without any degradation or failure.The drive looks sleek and stylish with its black PCB and gold sticker, and it comes with a 5-year warranty if you register it online within 90 days of purchase. I also like that it supports NVMe 1.3 protocol, SMART and TRIM functions, and firmware updates.The SABRENT Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 SSD is hands down the best SSD I've ever owned, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to upgrade their PC or laptop with a fast, reliable, and high-capacity drive.

The SSD itself is excellent! No bloat, practically plug and play, and faster than my internet can even handle. My only nitpick is the lack of an installation screw, but I really don't know if that's necessarily something standard. It just would've been nice, since my motherboard has been installed for years, and I didn't keep the extra screws somewhere easy to find.