SABRENT 2TB Gen. 4 QLC NVMe SSD

Bought this from Amazon Warehouse, works a treat with the Acasis thunderbolt enclosure. This is used for media storage for my MacBook Pro. While the write speed is impressive, it’s the read spread that at least as far as my application goes makes a big difference to my work flow.

The unit (2TB version) arrived earlier than advised, no issues installing it using a PCI card in an HP dual Zeon workstation on a CPU-1 slot. We've not done any formal speed tests with the disk but can report reduced run times on large models that use the disk a lot - so it is quite a bit faster than the Sandisk Extreme II SSD that it replaced. We're happy and the price is competitive; Good value.

It's very, very fast! Easy to install and I've not had any overheating problems despite not installing a heat sink. I created 2 partitions on this drive, the 2nd one for system backup and 180GB system backup takes less than 10 minutes

VERY fast in new Z590 motherboard with PCIe 4 and Intel 11th Gen CPU. Recommended.

I use it with time machine to back up my Macbook Air M1. Works well still after nearly 2 years. Does get a trifle warm at time.

Got the Sabrent Q4 Rocket 2TB drive. Overall in terms of performance I'm very happy with it. The actual product itself is very good, and for that it deserves 5 stars in that merit. It was good value too, having got it for £240, especially considering its recent release. However, the arrival of the item was delayed by 3 days, and information over warranty was somewhat scarce. I knew from the product description it had a 5 year warranty, but I was unsure on how to claim it. Upon receipt of the item, there are no instructions(I could find) in the manual or packaging that told me how to claim it. It was only until I searched online that I found you needed to take the serial number of the SSD to register it. This is fine, but I had to remove the SSD to get the code. Even if there was some information on how to active the warranty, it wasn't clearly or conveniently explained/displayed, which feels partially disingenuous or slightly misleading. It would be great in future products if they attached a piece of documentation specifically telling you how to activate warranty. Because of this, I say 4 stars, but it would be a 5 if warranty activation was more clear. Cheers!

Arrived promptly but it was never recognised by BIOS. Returned the item and waiting 5 working days already for then to acknowledge they've received it.... Not impressed...

Works great, super fast, very easy install that came with the screw needed for installation.

Ce ssd fonctionne pour la PS5, il est proche des débits de la console et permet de ne pas avoir plus de temps de chargement que le ssd de la ps5, c'est pareil. Attention à ne pas prendre le dissipateur du ssd il ne rentre pas dans la console j'ai choisi de prendre le ELECGEAR PS5. Le prix reste le gros défaut de ces SSD.

I'm always hesitant to review items, like this, so early after I've received it. In the last week since I received this SSD, I've 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 couldn't 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 that's more of a Motherboard issue). The bios recognized the new storage device immediately. I didn't 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 I'm 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 won't 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 you'd 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 it's 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.

Ottimo prodotto

Ich habe die 2TB Version gekauft, um Sie in einem Yottamaster TB3 Gehäuse am iMac Baujahr 2020 als Speichermedium für meine Fotos zu verwenden. Im geschlossenen Gehäuse wird die SSD und das Gehäuse nach der Erstbefüllung mit ca. 20.000 Fotodateien sehr heiß (so heiß das ich das Gehäuse gerade noch anfassen kann). Das lag auch daran das Spotlight (das ist die Mac Suche) erst mal die Dateien indiziert hat. Da ich Spotlight für meine Fotos nicht brauche habe ich es für die SSD abgeschaltet. Als weitere Maßnahme gegen die Wärmeentwicklung habe ich den Sabrent Kühler gekauft und montiert. Natürlich kann der Gehäusedeckel nicht werden und das Ganze ist nicht mehr mobil. Der Vorteil ist eine konstante Schreib- und Lesegeschwindigkeit von ca. 2,5 GB/s bei großen Dateien ohne Einbruch. Bei normalen Betrieb liegt die Temperatur bei 35-40 Grd. C (laut iStat Menues und auch mit Laserthermometer selber gemessen) Somit bin ich sehr zufrieden und vergebe 5 Sterne Eine störende Auffälligkeit gibt es aber noch. Ab und an wird das Laufwerk ohne Grund ausgeworfen, zum Glück war das noch nicht passiert während Dateien geschrieben wurden. Ich hatte auch den Fall das nach Aufwecken des Mac aus dem Ruhezustand das Laufwerk nicht mehr gemountet war. Dann heißt es Thunderbolt Kabel abziehen und wieder anstecken. Sollte das weiterhin auftreten oder häufiger werden, dann muss ich wohl die SSD und/oder das Laufwerksgehäuse zurücksenden. Ich werde über die weitere Entwicklung berichten. Update 2.2.21 Die M.2 SSD mach doch mehr Probleme als erwartet. Sie wird ab und an ausgeworfen, mal nach geführt 15 min. mal nach mehreren Stunden. Ich hatte 2 mal den Fall das der iMac wären des Bootvorgangs abgestürzt ist und ich nochmal starten musste. Mein iMac ist das neueste Modell aus 2020, ohne die Sabrent SSD habe ich Null Probleme. Die oben beschriebenen Fehler sind weniger geworden, nachdem ich das Dateisystem von HFS+ nach APFS geändert hatte. Danach hat der Ruhestand funktioniert und die SSD wurde auch im Systembericht unter MVMExpress angezeigt (was vorher nicht der Fall war). Die Fehler sind aber nicht völlig weg, ich hatte plötzlich die Meldung das eine Datei nicht geschrieben werden konnte weil die SSD read only ist. Ich habe heute das neueste Big Sur update durchgeführt, vielleicht hilft das bei meinen Problemen. Falls weiterhin solche Fehler habe gehen SSD und Gehäuse zurück.