SABRENT Rocket Q4 2230 NVMe 4.0 2TB High Performance PCIe 4.0 M.2 2230 SSD Compatible with Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, Mini PCs [SB-213Q-2TB]

A must upgrade

Its nice easy to install, easy to manage, really I love it. Thanks Amazon

That's quite good ssd I recommend it

Works without any issues with steam deck and rog ally

Very fast delivery, ssd working fine with surface pro 9 ,

Here’s a refined version of your review with improved clarity, flow, and conciseness while maintaining the original sentiment: --- I purchased this drive for my Asus ROG Ally, expecting top-tier performance given its premium price and marketing claims. While its speed was on par with other PCIe Gen 4 drives, it didn’t stand out as exceptional. The drive performed well for seven months before developing issues—random restarts, malfunctioning Windows apps, and recurring errors. On every boot, Windows began scanning the drive, and chkdsk revealed bad sectors. Even after formatting and reinstalling Windows, the problems persisted. To make matters worse, the seller on Amazon refused to honor the warranty, and dealing with Sabrent was a nightmare. They kept stalling with unnecessary requests for photos, invoices, and irrelevant questions instead of providing real support. Avoid this seller and this drive. The glowing reviews are misleading, hyping up a product that doesn’t justify its price. Worse, if you run into issues, you’ll be stuck with subpar customer support and an unreliable SSD.

I bought in march 2023 for steam deck and was amazing and now in July suddenly not reading and lost all data and returned to old memory and there is no warranty , just 4 months for this price thank you

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Het product werd ontzettend goed verpakt en in een klein trommeltje geleverd. De installatie was in mijn geval zo gedaan en de performance is zoals omschreven. Goed product.

Bought to use with the Zitay CFExpress adapter, for use in my Canon R5C. Works great and is super fast to offload. Get the 1TB if this is your application as the 2TB uses quad level memory which has lower sustained write speeds. Recommended!

Har den som ssd disk till min RPI5 med full desktop. Startar på <4sek

J’ai acheté ce SSD pour booster les performances de mon ordinateur portable, qui dispose d’un emplacement M.2 2230. Le SSD est compatible avec la norme PCIe 4.0, ce qui lui permet d’atteindre des vitesses de lecture et d’écriture impressionnantes. Le SSD a une capacité de 1 To, ce qui est rare pour un SSD de cette taille. Il me permet de stocker tous mes fichiers, mes jeux et mes applications sans problème. Le SSD est de qualité et facile à installer, il suffit de le glisser dans l’emplacement M.2 et de le visser. Le SSD a un design sobre et compact, il ne chauffe pas trop et ne fait pas de bruit. Je suis très satisfait de ce SSD, il a transformé mon ordinateur portable en une bête de course. Je le recommande à tous ceux qui cherchent un SSD M.2 2230 performant et abordable.

I had read a lot of horror stories about upgrading the M.2 NVMe drive on the Surface Pro 8 (SP8). There were a lot of stories about overheating and BSOD when trying to re-install Windows. When I saw this Sabrent drive advertised on Amazon it specifically said Surface Pro compatible and that it ran cool, so I took a chance on it. I am very pleased with the result. I'll do the TL;DR part up front: I upgraded my 256GB M.2 Drive on my Surface Pro 8 with the 1 TB Sabrent Rocket 2230 NVMe M.2 drive, and the drive runs great at PCIe 4.0 Speeds according to CrystalMark 8. No BSOD and runs under 50 Celsius *EDIT*: Under maximum load, about 35 degrees celcius degrees idle/normal operations *END EDIT* according to CrystalDiskInfo 8. I was able to copy all of my files using Acronis partitioning software you get to use free from Sabrent when you purchase their drive. If you want to know exactly how I copied everything over without ever having to go into the BIOS, keep reading: UPFRONT DISCLAIMER: You will need to purchase three things to do this upgrade if you don't have them already. Two of them you would need anyway if you were to upgrade like Microsoft suggests: #4 Torx screwdriver/bit, thermal compound, and an external NVMe drive enclosure. 1) First I did purchase an external NVMe enclosure to copy the old drive to the new one. You can find them on Amazon for under $30 US. You need to make sure the enclosure can take 2230 size drives. I got one that had USB C to USB C cable and was thunderbolt compatible. Another consideration is that after you swap the NVMe drives you can use the enclosure with your old drive and have another high speed hard drive to back stuff up on, although I found you will need an NVMe thermal pad/heatsink for the old drive or it can overheat. 2) After reading about BSOD NVMe upgrade horror stories on the SP8 it lead me to articles talking about AHCI Link Power Management - HIPM/DIPM. HIPM/DIPM power management is not on by default and you actually have to do a Windows registry edit to make it available. There are some good guides on how to do this via a quick google search. I recommend you enable it and turn the feature on. 3) I had to disable drive encryption before copying files over (it is on by default). You can either disable encryption or get a USB encryption key. I chose to decrypt the drive which will take hours depending on how much data you have on the drive. You can re-encrypt once everything is over to the new drive. THIS NEXT PART IS WHERE MOVING FILES OVER AND GETTING WINDOWS SETEP ON THE NEW DRIVE DIFFERS FROM WHAT MICROSOFT WANTS YOU TO DO. 4) I cannot stress enough the kudos to Sabrent for having their own disk partition software. Acronis, which you can get from Sabrent's website, will copy all of your files over for you verbatim; no reinstalling necessary. Follow the disk cloning prompts, and the best part is it will automatically increase the size of your main windows drive to maximum while keeping your boot partition and recovery partition intact (just make sure you chose the correct cloning prompt). Acronis alone makes it worth it to go with Sabrent. 5) The SP8 comes with a front and back metal sleave for the NVMe drive. YOU WILL NEED a #4 Torx screwdriver bit (very tiny!) to unscrew the drive and screw it back in. The metal casing snaps off (do so gently so as not to bend the casing). I cleaned off the thermal compound the old drive had, put in the Sabrent drive, re-applied some CPU thermal compound I already had, and put the casing back together, then screwed it back into the SP8. A lot of videos show using a thermal pad instead of re-using the Microsoft drive enclosure. I think the drive enclosure helps distribute heat evenly back into the SP8 chassis. I turned the SP8 on and it recognized me with all of my files intact without ever having to go into the BIOS the first time. I have been running normally for almost two weeks and not a single issue. Drive runs cool and fast. Works great and couldn't be happier. I hope this helps you out if you are on the fence!