SABRENT 2TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD Extreme Performance Solid State Drive R/W 7100/6600MB/s (Latest Version) (SB-RKT4P-2TB)

Better than installing a heatsink and then covering it up like Sony suggest.

... the goodness. Reliable, reputable and works as advertised. Not some knock off brand, high IOPS, what else could you ask for besides maybe an extra discount (which of course wasnt available at checkout) ? AAA++ get this drive, top 5 on market right now. #worthy

The drive is seriously quick. Excellent sequentials, randoms, and mixed read/write. Its not quite as strong on reads in general as the competing drives, but it more than makes up for it with its outstanding write ability. If youre using the drive for professional work or something that is write heavy, this should be at the top of your list. Higher endurance rating and such strong write performance in every metric over its direct competition makes it a no-brainer. An unfortunate truth is that if you intend to use this with AMDs X570 platform, you need to be careful which M.2 slot you will use. Typical board topology is that the top M.2 is direct CPU lanes driven while the lower M.2 slot(s) are chipset driven. Due to the chipset connecting to the CPU via a 4x link and the drive fully saturating PCI-e 4x 4.0, the overhead of the chipset driving the rest of the I/O means it will be bottlenecked somewhat in straight sequentials. I see about 6400MB/s read and 6500MB/s write in CrystalDiskMark when the drive is installed in my chipset driven M.2 slot. Fortunately this has little to no effect on real world performance as straight sequential workloads are rare and the drive is so fast they are finished quickly anyway. Chances are something else will be the bottleneck before you actually manage to hit even the reduced 6400MB/s performance. The drive specifies it needs a heatsink, but in my testing the copper heatspreading label did a more than sufficient job for desktop use and even light benchmarking. It seems only really necessary if you do I/O intensive workloads, and whatever heatsink your motherboard comes with should be more than sufficient. Bear in mind this is one of the rare two-sided M.2 drives, due to using 8 NAND packages and two DRAM packages (4 NAND and 1 DRAM on each side), so it likely will not fit into any laptop or portable device since they typically use a low profile M.2 connector.

My PS5 seems a lot faster. And my new games download is faster as well. You can’t go wrong with it. This is high quality.

Very easy to install, fits great, and I have had no issues. Not really sure how else to rate it considering Im not looking at it since I installed it.

Absolutely perfect fit and does a great job of keeping the additional SD cool in the PS5

The transfer speeds are ridiculously amazing with this bad boy. I highly recommend grabbing a heatsink for it though. Make sure you find the proper fitting one for your laptop or desktop. Without a heatsink, the temps increase pretty quickly and redline during large transfers. This causes your PC to spit out hardrive health notifications. I ended up getting a heatsink but still use apps to monitor the health and temps during transfers.

Good overall to provide better cooling for added ssd

This SSD performs quite well on my Costco Dell 8950 - 12th Gen which has two Gen4 PCIe M.2 ports. I am getting full 7000 MB/s reads. After years of transfer rates around 300 to 600 MB/s, this SSD is absolutely stunning. Absolutely zooming along in LightRoom. I purchased one to test and purchased a 2nd one about a week later. Looking forward to a full 4TB SDD machine. SSDs are one of the best ways to improve computer performance for many people.

I first put this into my MOB that was only Able to get Gen 3 speeds and I did not think I would see a difference being that this is Gen 4. Boy was I wrong. Much snappier response time getting in and out of programs transferring files from USB were a little quicker. Loading the OS was a little quicker to. It also runs Cooler then any of my other drives by about 5-7C the average Idle Temp was 25-27C In a desktop anyway. Later I put the drive in a Gen 4 MOB. Loading Windows was incredibly fast. Boot up to Desktop was 2-3 seconds faster then Gen 3 and shut down time was about twice as Quick. Overall for 72$ when it was on sale for a 500 GB you can’t go wrong. The only downside is it uses a little more power then other drives I would feel better putting this in a desktop rather then a laptop due to the power consumption. The thin heat spreader seems to do a good job keeping the drive cool most the time but when you stress it the temp goes up a bit but has never thermal throttled on me. It does run a little hotter then some other Gen 4 drives when stressed but nothing to be concerned about. UPDATE: after using the drive for 4 months it still holds up and after testing several other Gen 4 drives including the Kingston KC3000, WD SN770 and Hynix P41 the Sabrent has the fastest boot to windows 10 by an entire 3 seconds and also slightly less shutdown time. The only downside is endurance. After writing 3.5 TB the drive went to 99% and if you don’t have a fan in your PC cooing the drive it does get hotter then others but other then that seems just as fast and faster in some ways as even higher end drives.