SABRENT 2TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD Extreme Performance Solid State Drive R/W 7100/6600MB/s (Latest Version) (SB-RKT4P-2TB)

I honestly dont know how well the heat dissipation is. But the fitment is oem like. From what I can tell the contact patch should touch the nvme and the cover being the the piece that will draw heat should offer ventilation and not trap the heat.

100% Recommend. Just arrived and installed this evening. I had been keeping my eye out for its release ever since reading about it. It just happened that I checked on Thanksgiving day and it was suddenly available. Not only was it available but it was the same price as the normal Rocket 4 drive ($199 for the 1TB) and was 30 bucks less than the competing Samsung 980 Pro. So I spent the difference on the available Sabrent NVME heatsink ($24) available on Amazon (if you are going to use one of these drives, you really should have some sort of heatsink to get optimal performance). Cloning my system drive was simple. Sabrent provides a version of Acronis but most any of the other popular tools would have worked as well. Reboot and done. As soon as I powered my machine back on from install, I noticed that seconds had been shaved off of boot time. It went from power off to Windows loading spinning and to a login prompt in less than 15 seconds. I had been using a Sabrent Rocket gen3 in that slot previously and it performed well but this another level. I checked the health and made sure all was good with Sabrents Rocket Control Center and once everything looked good I ran my first benchmark (crop of the results above). It is simply crazy fast. It really has made a noticeable difference in apps opening and loading, large video files open nearly instantly and my next test will be VM performance but wanted to write this for anyone on the fence. While I agreed with the argument that PICE 4 Gen 4 drives would likely NOT really make a huge difference over a fast gen 3 drive, this new line of superfast Sabrents, 980 Pros, WD sn850 drives ABOSULTELY offer real world differences in usability and performance. Coupled with the heatsink, at idle it runs 32C and under load has never broken 39C. As an aside, to see performance like this, you must install it in a PCie 4.0 compatible M.2 slot and most of these are currently found only on AMD x570 motherboards. Even on boards with 2 m.2 slots, make sure you choose one that is connected to the 4.0 BUS. Often, this is the slot closest to the CPU socket. More boards are coming with 2 m.2 slots and in many cases only one is PCIE 4.0. It will run in other slots but you will not see the speeds advertised. I have been working with PCs and in IT since before the days of PATA 33 drives and always kept wondering when we would see the days of instant boot times. Well, with this generation of drives, we are getting awfully close. Finally.

Better than installing a heatsink and then covering it up like Sony suggest.

It took a few tries for me to install...I couldnt install the SSD into the heatsink first bc the copper coils wouldnt let me insert the card all the way. I had to insert the SSD into its slot, and slip the heatsink housing under it...and then the tiny screws were difficult to get to with the SSD already installed. Also, the screw that secures the heat sink to the PS5 housing was too small in diameter...its holding with only leverage.

Im running the 8tb Rocket 4 Plus right now in my laptop. I wanted to upgrade from the 2tb that my computer came with, which was frankly way too little for my storage needs (Surface Studio Laptop). I was a little concerned at first about its size/whether or not itd fit properly in my laptop, as well as whether or not itd overheat since the Surface Studio Laptop doesnt have a whole lot of space for heat dissipation/etc. It fits, it fits perfectly, and ever since I picked this thing up in September 2022 its been used heavily as my daily driver. Packed it with games, its exceptionally fast, and overall just a fantastic purchase. Buy once, cry once sort of deal. Ive been very happy with my purchase since the day I put this laptop back together with it inside, and its been going strong for around 5 months at the time of writing this review. I dont get any real heat issues with it, even when running games or rendering 3d art in Daz Studio. Overall, if youre looking for a good SSD in this higher end price range, I dont think you can really go wrong with this one.

Super solid choice. When installed it fits perfectly to the PS5 with the added flair. i suggest this as a MUST BUY with your SSD.

The transfer speeds are ridiculously amazing with this bad boy. I highly recommend grabbing a heatsink for it though. Make sure you find the proper fitting one for your laptop or desktop. Without a heatsink, the temps increase pretty quickly and redline during large transfers. This causes your PC to spit out hardrive health notifications. I ended up getting a heatsink but still use apps to monitor the health and temps during transfers.

So I wanted to really get some mileage on this ssd before I wrote this review and I think that over two years of daily driving is a good indicator of how it will preform. First off lets talk about Sabrent they have taken the industry by storm lately and for good reason. They have been working closely with phion to produce some of the fastest drives on the market. When I bought my first m.2 drive it was no question that it was Samsung pro was the best money could buy but over the years Samsung has really dropped the ball and Sabrent was there to pick it up. Be it speed or capacity you could have your cake and eat it as well. This drive is a gen 2 pcie 4.0 device and really maxes out the available bandwidth. Other than benchmarks you are really not going to see these kind of transfer speeds as unless you have identical drives everything else will be your bottleneck. The only real projects that I work on that come close are image stacking where I combine hundreds of raw files into one image and there I am pulling from the ssd into ram and you can really see the speed increase. For games and most applications almost any m.2 ssd will keep up with the task where this one will give you a slight edge. To me though it was the combination of speed and the (at the time) highest density drive you could get. 4tb sounds like a lot and really for most it would be more than enough but for me it was enough to not have to worry every time I worked on a project if I was going to have to use slower drives a scratch space but not enough for my system to not have tiered storage spaces. So for longer term how has it held up? Well fantastically in short. I have used it as my main boot disk for over two years and have had no issues at all. Stability has been prefect and the performance has remained strong (note that I keep the drive less the 80% full). I even bought a second one for my new laptop and did some bench marks and the brand new drive was neck and neck with my two year old drive. So I am quite pleased.

No issues. You can use out of the box Microsoft default drivers. They work fine.

At time of purchase this is about $20 cheaper than the Samsung 980 Pro. And yes, it is faster... sometimes. Its also slower sometimes. At times, its A LOT slower, but its still so much faster than just about anything else that youll never notice that its slower. The benchmark results in the attached picture are both from immediately after installation. Sequential operations are both substantially faster on the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus (yes, I know the picture doesnt say Plus, but I assure you that it is) than they are on the 980 Pro. (6996 vs 6871 MB/s for read, 6647 vs 5088 MB/s for write), and thats great when your drive is nearly empty... but when your drive is getting closer to being full its the random operations that matter more, and thats where Sabrent is lagging: ~412k IOPS vs ~942 for read, and ~376k vs ~411k for write. Whether this is going to be a big deal for your situation is a question only you can answer. For my own purposes, its not a big deal: my 980 Pro is the system and program drive; my Rocket 4 Plus is dedicated to project files for a couple of specific software packages where absolute maximum drive performance is of paramount importance but which are unlikely to ever take up enough hard drive space for random read/write speeds to become an issue.