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)

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.

Fast upgrade, fast speeds and even the cloning was fast!

Works just as good as Samsung and it’s cost is lower.

No dislikes; works well and fast

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.

Love this product! Loading screens on games are basically non-existent and the price is very competitive. Youre getting an amazing 4th gen nvme for the price of the 3rd gen samsung 970 evo plus (not saying 970 isnt a beast of its own). I also really liked their secure packing since I dont trust UPS to be gentle with my deliveries.

WORKS WITH PS5!!!!! Had it in there for about 3-4 months now

Very easy to install and awesome value! Definitely worth the money!

Got it on time, inserted it, copied data on it and it worked flawlessly. Weird was: After copying all data on it (had to do it twice which ammounted to around 6T of data writes) the CrystalDiskInfo tool claimed that the health status is 96% - which would indicate a quite drastic decline? Even more puzzling is that the tool claims that the drive was powered on 1677 times. This would mean that I would have turned the drive off and on every 10 minutes since I got it. That totally makes no sense. The packaging was intact (there were all the usual stickers on the wrapper and the wrapper was undamaged. Really odd. A piece of advice: The drive comes with a thin metal/thermal sticker. That in itself might however not be enough. Monitor the temperature at the beginning of your use (e.g. with CrystalDiskInfo). If you start off with 55C and reach even quickly over 60C you are in trouble. Consider adding some thermal pad & cooler which will immediately reduce the temperature by 15-20C and your device will thank you later for it!

I purchases this originally to store a game library. It worked well for about a year but in august 2022 I started to have performance issues where it would slow down considerably. Worked with Sabrent support to rule out any software/pc issues and was approved for an RMA. Since September 2022, I’ve been waiting for a replacement without any details on an eta nor other options. It’s hard to make a recommendation given the lack of alternative options and ability to get a quick replacement. Disappointed in Sabrent and given how much was spent on a 4tb SSD, it’s hard to use them in the future.