Anyway to verify a Sabrent Drive is legit

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So I took a gamble, and bought a new sealed Sabrent 2gb Rocket pcie4 on fleabay. It was £230, so cheap, but not so cheap to be obvious fake.

I dont have a pcie4 system to run it in (waiting on new Ryzen). My current system only has 1 M2 slot. I can put it in, and install OS.

Is registering it via SN a sure way? Im assuming if the SN is made up, the board isnt legit it wont register?

I was looking at the pcie3 versions, after advice on here. Then saw the 4 for less than anyone retails the 3 at. Hopefully its legit, but shouldnt be any issue getting a refund if not.
 
Ive registered it, the SN number went in, so I assume its legit.

I dont have a spare M2 slots on this old setup. So id have to install OS onto it etc :rolleyes: Im hoping to get a 5900x at release, will be the drive for that build.
 
I've just purchased one of these for my new build. They're down to under £200 now delivered. I'll register mine when I get home and see if they accept it. They seems suspicious in both price and quantity on there.
 
I ordered a 2TB one *elsewhere*. I then had to order an external case to clone my existing os onto. I really didn't want to reinstall everything. had it a few months now seems all good
 
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Dandle said:
I've just purchased one of these for my new build. They're down to under £200 now delivered. I'll register mine when I get home and see if they accept it. They seems suspicious in both price and quantity on there.
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Still not used mine, need my new build, another week or so at least. But it did register fine.

Cant see the 4.0s under £200 on there. But even at what I paid, I was very skeptical :)
No idea where they are coming from to be so much cheaper than stores
 
I paid £213 for mine. Just registered it with Sabrent and it registered fine. They even accept receipts and order numbers from the auction site. There were some on there when I mentioned it above for £190+p&p.
 
Just got the SB-ROCKET-NVMe4-1TB for £125 and it registered fine. Wasn't any serial number on the outer or inner box (tiny digits on device sticker instead) but all looks good quality packaging, obviously possible to fake but hey it registered with 5 year warranty. Will try cloning the laptop image I made yesterday to it later today.
 
You can also probably raise a support ticket with them. I am not sure if the registration actually runs a check on the serial number, when I registered I thought it was just accepted and that they would verify if I had to put a claim in or something later on.
 
The problem I'm having is it's configured out of the box to 512e sector size and my original drive that I created the image of is 4096 bytes per sector. The laptop only has 1 m.2 slot so I can't install the Rocket Sector Size Converter. Using Macrium Reflect it complains when I try and restore the image to the new drive, that the new drive has an incompatible sector size. Anyone know if there is a linux utility I could use on a live cd?
 
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The problem I'm having is it's configured out of the box to 512e sector size and my original drive that I created the image of is 4096 bytes per sector. The laptop only has 1 m.2 slot so I can't install the Rocket Sector Size Converter. Using Macrium Reflect it complains when I try and restore the image to the new drive, that the new drive has an incompatible sector size. Anyone know if there is a linux utility I could use on a live cd?
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You could try HD clone from Miray which you can use from bootable media - I used it from a spinner to nvme with no complaints.
 
Colin Anderson said:
You could try HD clone from Miray which you can use from bootable media - I used it from a spinner to nvme with no complaints.
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Thanks.

The only way I've managed it atm is setting the Sabrent to 512e but the old Toshiba XG5 definitely reported itself as being 4096 in Windows System Info.
 
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