SABRENT 2TB Rocket Q4 NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 Internal SSD Maximum Performance Solid State Drive R/W 4800/3600 MB/s (SB-RKTQ4-2TB)

If your MB has a heat sink, use it. If not, get a heat sink. They should be more insistent on this, make it more visible or something. NVME (PCIe especially) run HOT. They sell their excellent heat sink separately if you dont purchase this with it already included. I was lucky and discovered this before I installed it, I purchased Sabrent heat sink and it is great! That was the only reason I didnt give it 5 stars.

Pricey but cant beat the combination of sure AND storage capacity

Works and performs as expected.

Advertised as 4.9GB/s Read and 3.5GB/s Write. This thing achieves almost 6GB/s read without cooling... just stop reading and add to cart.

Wanted a lot of space and figured I should take use of the Gen 4 compatibility of my x570 Motherboard. Attached is the performance of the 2TB version at about halfway full from a single test I did.

So far there is nothing not to like. I posted some numbers but keep in mind my rig is old and limited to PCIe 3.0. I plan on upgrading soon so I saw no reason to get an older PCIe 3.0 device. Regardless I thought these numbers might help those on older platforms considering making the jump. I use mine as a game drive as I already have an smaller 500GB 960 Evo for my OS. I picked up the 2TB version just to be clear and it basically saturates the 4x link it uses. Great drive I highly recommend it. Game loads are snappy so you wont spend as much time waiting to play. I will update my post after it has aged and filled up a good bit.

I did some shopping around to check out different models and capacities as my 1 TB SSD that came with my system about a year ago was already filling up. I decided to go with this 4 TB to help ensure I would have plenty of space and not need to do another upgrade in another year. Very easy to install, Sabrent provides a cloning tool if you need it, though I chose to do my reinstall from scratch as I had noticed some performance issues. This arrived very quickly and couldnt have asked for better service. One thing I might recommend if you are doing what I did (replacing an SSD with a larger one with intent to reinstall from scratch) is to also purchase an SSD external enclosure. I got the Sabrent tool-free enclosure which also worked great. This was needed as I ended up realizing there were files I didnt get backed up and this just made it easy to retrieve them. The copy speeds to the new drive were fantastic (this is why I love SSDs).

Great SSD, very fast and the included Acronis is great to transfer your OS from your old drive to this one

The heatsink was too big to use so it was not useful...so I hope it doesnt allow my system to over heat.....

Im always hesitant to review items, like this, so early after Ive received it. In the last week since I received this SSD, Ive put it through its paces and it handled quite well. I was going to get another 2TB Corsair MP600 for my PC, but since this one was on sale for about $80 off on cyber monday, I couldnt resist. I am not using this drive for the operating system, I am using my existing M.2 as a system drive, and this one is simply for adding extra data storage mostly for games; but also to free up room for media like music and movies. The install was extremely easy. (My Asus X570 required me to remove the M.2 heatsinks and the chipset cover, but thats more of a Motherboard issue). The bios recognized the new storage device immediately. I didnt even have to do anything in the bios, but your mileage may vary depending on bios. On the first boot, the operating system took an extremely long time to load, and Im not sure why, but it was only once. I think there was some initialization happening behind the scenes and I was stuck on a black screen for a few minutes. I just walked away from it and eventually came back to a windows 10 login screen. A note to Windows 10 users: If you are like me, and using this for extra storage and not your system drive, you will need to go into your disk manager and format this volume for use. It wont be available as a drive until you do. I measured the performance with Crystal Disk Mark and this drive performed about the same as my MP600. It did slightly better and slightly worse in some categories but overall the differences are so negligible that youd never notice it. If I recall, the MP600 seemed to do better in sequential writes and reads and this one did better in random writes and reads. Once again, the difference is so minimal that I think of them virtually the same. I moved all of my steam games to the new drives and it was so fast it moved my largest games in less than 90 seconds and the smaller games in about 30 seconds. At the moment, I could not be more pleased with this drive. I see the price has gone up since Cyber Monday, so its a bit of a tough sell at over $300, but if this ever goes on sale for less than $300 I would not hesitate to get another one.