SABRENT 1TB QLC Gen 4 NVMe SSD

Having upgraded my PC and fitted a new MSI Mag B550 Tomahawk with PCI 4.0 I decided I NEEDED a new M.2 drive to take any advantage of the faster speed available. So after due diligence I decided on the 1Tb Sabrent M.2. I've not heard of this make before but reviews seemed positive enough so took the plunge and bought one complete with the heatsink. Arrived next day and well packaged, big box with little box inside. I never realised how small these SSD's actually are, anyway, assembled the cooler to drive and fitted to M/B no problems. Transferred Windows over and booted up, process took about the same time as my old EVO 860 though I wasn't expecting much difference. I have noticed that software and file transfer is faster and games open quicker to. All in all I'm very happy with this SSD and at this price point you cannot go far wrong.

Used to upgrade from Samsung evo 500gb, not the easiest to retro fit in to an existing built pc, as I did, needs a long screwdriver, but has been very reliable and happy to recommend. The instructions provided were good.

This ticked a lot of boxes. Having had an Samsung 850 EVO SATA 1TB SSD I needed something with a bit more storage. I have never used Sabrent products before and had some reservations with the brand as it is a fairly new to me. The last thing you want to do is buy a generic electronics product with little or no testing and plenty of quality control issues. The 5 year warranty was fairly reasurring. There were some things I knew I wanted. NVME and more than 2TB of storage, so this product seemed ideal. My motherboard /processor hardware supports Gen 3 M.2 however if I am going to go all out, it might as well be Gen4 hard drive - especially at this price. I have been very happy with the performance of the drive - although I have only been running it for 4 days. I didnt expect much of a lift in performance when it came to changing from my old SSD. When your boot time to an os is already less than 20 seconds, just how quick can you expect it to be? However, I still see performance benefits in general usage, whether its opening graphics editing software and transferring files. I am particularly looking fowarded to see what the benefits might be when it comes to rendering and saving video projects - although haven't done this yet. This was installed on a self build Asus PRIME Z390-A which comes with its own M.2 passive heatsink. However, neither the motherboards packaging nor the hard drive stick contained a stand off and screw. This was a small angst but I do feel that at this price point, Sabrent could have added some hardware to cover all bases here. You've just spent £630 on a hard drive, you instantly want to install it in your machine and then you realise that you dont have all the bits you need to stop you over tensioing the NVME SSD during your install. This is a poor show. I was not aware that I was running my old hard drive off an MBR partition. So when I did a migration using Sabrent's software I was left wondering why it had dropped out at 2TB for the partition and a separate partition for the rest. I hadnt realised the limitations of MBR to 2TB. I suspect there will be many more people like me when they come to upgrade beyodn 2TB too. GPT allows for larger partition sizes and I woudl recommend that for this hard drive too. I revisited the migration again, but before I did so, I converted my original SSD partition to GPT using Easeus Partition Master. When I migrated the original SSD using Sabrent's Acronis, I still had a 2TB partition. However, this time I was able to extend the partition to utilise the rest of the space. As its my main Windows drive, I now have a small 299MB EFI System Partition and a 3725.60GB NTFS Partition. My PC build is an Asus Prime Z390-A motherboard with i7-9700K Intel Processor & 16GB Memory, Corsair TX850 Power Supply and Gigabyte GTX 1050Ti GV-N105TD5-4GD Graphics Card.

I’ve been running the Sabrent Rocket Q4 1TB inside a OWC Envoy Express Thunderbolt 3 enclosure attached to my 2020 iMac (as an external drive), and I have to say, it’s worked flawlessly! The whole setup is noiseless (I forget it’s there), it runs cool, and is more than fast enough to edit hi-res video and produce music (streaming GBs of audio and sample data directly from the external drive). It feels no different than working directly from my Mac’s internal SSD. I also transferred 600GB to the drive in under 20mins...very happy!

Drive fails to mount, isn't accessible to Windows or Mac machines and can't be formatted as it fails to write the partition tables. Disappointing as it was needed urgently. Returned for refund & have ordered an alternative brand to replace it.. don't think I'll bother with any more Sabrent drives.

Fantastic value if you can get it at the £109 price point that I purchased it for. It's fast read speeds are great for the price, and while the write speeds aren't the best, it'll make a great gen 4 PC gaming SSD. Gen 3 speeds are good too! I've done a quick review on my YouTube channel, Ricco123tube. Check it out.

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!

Really fast folder transfers and reads, no lag. connected into my Gigabyte B550I with no issues. Good price compared to the Samsung alternative. I had Samsung SSD's before, I thought I would give something different a go. This was the second I bought, the first turned up with the module missing (stolen) at source, I did reach out to Amazon who were very understanding and replaced which arrived the following day.