Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB PCIe NVMe M.2-2280 High Performance Internal Solid State Drive

I purchased this after doing some price to performance comparisons. I Purchased it for my 17 inch gaming laptop which came with a 512gb Samsung nvme Drive ,a 2.5 SATA storage space and a spare nvme slot. I download and play a lot of games from my steam library and needed more storage. It arrived with no issues, packaging and presentation was spot on. With the metal casing, I really felt like I received a premium product and performance backs that up!Super easy to install and had it installed and formatted in literally 3 minutes (most of which was just putting my laptop base back on). Once I rebooted, I needed to transfer a 40gb game onto it from my Samsung drive and it only took 30 seconds! I was blown away! Loads games up at lightning speed and also allows my steam game downloads to complete faster since the games download and install simultaneously.I have not had to use the cloning software since this was just being used for additional storage and still booting OS from Samsung nvme but it’s nice to know that I can use that if I get one for my other gameing desktop PC. This drive is high end and makes me feel comfortable about being ready for the next gen of PC games as PS5 and series x are touting use of nvme storage for games!Highly recommend you get one or more of these for your laptop or next pc build

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 doesn't appear to affect anything though.Speed seems fine. I can't see much of a difference versus the original drive, but I didn't 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, I'm happy with this upgrade. I've purchsed other Sabrent drives and they've held up fine.

UPDATE: I currently have the drive 54% filled (basically all game files) and after running a diskmark test it is still reading at 3500MB/s and writing at 1800MB/s. Typically these drives start slowing down massively after they start getting filled but this drive is showing no symptoms of slowing down at all. It's actually doing better at this point than my Samsung 960Evo did which really says something. Plus it's significantly cheaper than any Samsung NVMe drive of this capacity. I'll probably buy a couple more of these to replace older ones with at some point that are smaller capacities than this.Built a new HTPC to replace my old one and got this to expand the storage a bit for games to load faster than the other 2TB spinning drive I have for mass storage. The drive is decently fast even when half full and I haven't noticed any issues with it. As a note, like others, the version of Acronis that you can download with this drive is strictly only for cloning the drive. It's not the full version of the programs. I do also want to say that I have NVMe drives from several manufacturers (Sabrent, Intel, Patriot, Samsung) but the packaging of this one in particular is worth noting. Amazon apparently doesn't give you the option to upload a photo to a review anymore but the drive comes in an aluminum case with soft foam inside holding it in place. Exceptional packing for sure. The drive doesn't run super hot like my other ones either. The temperature is at 47C while installing games to it while it is up against the fans of the GPU in my mini ITX case.

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!