Sabrent M.2 Drives

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Looking on advise on if Sabrent M.2 Drives are any good.

Was looking to get a 2nd M.2 Drive put in my PC for a Games Drive,Noticed in the forest that the

Sabrent 500GB Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 M.2

is under £100 so only about £10 more than my planned purchase and gen 4 so think its a great deal but dont know much about the manufacture
 
pigeonguyuk said:
Looking on advise on if Sabrent M.2 Drives are any good.

Was looking to get a 2nd M.2 Drive put in my PC for a Games Drive,Noticed in the forest that the

Sabrent 500GB Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 M.2

is under £100 so only about £10 more than my planned purchase and gen 4 so think its a great deal but dont know much about the manufacture
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You can get a 1tb gen 3 for around 100 quid which makes more sense as 500gb is quite small for a game drive. Also for games you would struggle to notice a difference from a Sata SSD to gen 4 let alone gen 3 vs 4.
 
Yeah, I managed to get my 1TB Sabrent Rocket a few weeks ago for £130. Speed tests on it were amazing, just need to get round to finally installing Windows on it.
 
I have a 1TB Sabrent (black and blue label) for my main Windows drive and just recently bought the 2TB Q model (white and blue label) for my games library.

Both work extremely well, however my Q is currently running at 2x speeds since I'm running a B450 board. Here's the CrystalDiskMark results for both:

1TB:
https://imgur.com/a/0uwNCiV

In terms of temps:
Reads: Max 34°C
Writes: Max 44°C

2TB:
https://imgur.com/a/OPMEvAK

In terms of temps:
Reads: Max 37°C
Writes: Max 44°C

I'm using a Gigabyte Aorus Pro B450 which has a heatsink on each of the M.2 slots, and the heatsink on the 1TB drive is slightly longer.

EDIT: Apologies, tried to use the images feature to embed them into the post but it didn't seem to work for me
 
Justintime said:
Tried 10 2tb ones, 3 died in a space of 2 months, not touching them. Mileage may vary.
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Ouch. I recently bought a mere 256 GB Sabrent Rocket for a laptop, I hammer it with torrents, but nothing heavy. I'm not overly worried about data loss on this laptop, but it'll be interesting to see if the drive lasts longer than a year.

What sort of usage were your drives seeing? To die so quickly, I'd expect to see extremely heavy use. :eek:
 
darael said:
Ouch. I recently bought a mere 256 GB Sabrent Rocket for a laptop, I hammer it with torrents, but nothing heavy. I'm not overly worried about data loss on this laptop, but it'll be interesting to see if the drive lasts longer than a year.

What sort of usage were your drives seeing? To die so quickly, I'd expect to see extremely heavy use. :eek:
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Destination said:
wow
what were you doing with them, and why so many, separate builds?
I have 2 in this machine, really hoping they don't suffer the same fate
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Separate builds, different hardware and different environments with different people. 2 were in well ventilated pcs and one was in a tight mitx HTPC. One corrupted windows often and needed 2 reinstalls before i suspected the ssd, wd black replaced it and works fine. The other 2 just disappeared from BIOS and never reappeared :D
 
Has anybody ever had a firmware update from Sabrent for their M.2 drives? My Sabrent Rocket has RKT303.3 installed.

On a similar not, has anybody installed unofficial / third party firmware on a Sabrent M.2 drive and was it worth it?
 
I have one of these bad boys installed at 1tb and my pc loads and runs thi gs very quickly and smoothly altho I now need an ssd about 2tb probably the mx500 to make a games drive with
 
I've got the 1TB Sabrent drive and it's fantastic. Not a single issue with the drive, and it has a very high endurance rating compared to most other SSDs.
 
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