SABRENT512GB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2242 DRAM-Less Low Power Internal High Performance SSD (SB-1342-512)

An excellent product, however I needed to return it because my Geekom XT12 PRO mini pc requires M.2 SATA III, notM.2 NVMe which is faster and not compatible.

I installed this disk in a MacBook Pro laptop, I used a "Deal4GO NVMe M.2 NGFF 2230 2242 mSATA SSD Hard Drive Adapter Bay for MacBook Pro A1708 2016 2017" adapter. This hard disk "Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2242" fits into this adapter, longer disks than 42mm tend to be to thick for the thin housing of the MacBook Pro, but this 42mm disk is excellent.Prior I had tried to fit an 80mm disk, I started the computer up from that disk but I did not want to return the computer to the owner with it, so I ordered this "Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2242".The write and read speed are very good, reading is up to 2000 M/s but the new Apple file system tends to slow read and write somewhat, but this disk is ideal for proper upgrading the small harddisks in most of the Apple laptops from 2016 and 2017 (not the thouchbar models though) but the thouochbar models and later ones have soldered and then non upgradable harddisks, and that is a pity.Youtube shows installing longer (80mm) disks in these laptops and then gluing the disk with tape and then in most cases the bottom lid is bulging. After installing then it is probably best to sreset NVRam at startup.Carbon Copy Cloner works wonders when cloning the data on the older disk onto the new disk that I connected to the computer with an USB adapter, this only takes few minutes.

works well, nice addition to my desktop

I highly recommend the SABRENT 2TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2242. I had been looking for a secondary hard drive to fit my HP Probook 450 G10. It required a NVMe m.2 SSD in a size 2242 and it seemed that not many manufacturers offered the 2242 size. I found this 2TB Sabrent in a 2242. I believe the 2242 drives are typically used for game devices. I had owned a few Sabrent brand computer devices and they had always proven to be top quality, never failing. This was my first Sabrent Drive. I first install formatted it with a single partition and it appeared to work until I attempted to open the drive. My Windows 11 OS continued to send the message, "disk structure is corrupted and unreadable". I looked on Youtube and Google for solutions but none that I found resolved the problem. Realizing that the 2TB drive was actually larger than the HP recommended size for my laptop, I had the idea to add another partition to see if that satisfied the OS. I added a very small 45 GB partition and that was the answer that resolved the issue. The drive has functioned normally since the small partition was added. Let me say here that this was not a Sabrent issue but rather a HP Laptop issue, or Windows 11 on the HP Laptop. I only shared this for someone who may experience this issue. I highly recommend this SSD and anything else manufactured by Sabrent.

My son's late 2016 MacBook Pro 13" no Touch Bar had to have it's logic board replaced and after that it ran perfectly. Only problem was the SSD was 256GB and now that seemed so small to me. So I bought this drive and installed it with an adapter also sold by Amazon. Everything was great! Fast (2600MBps read; 2100MBps write) and cool running. Then I restarted for the first time. And by that I mean using the "Restart" menu option, or button as required, and things got dicey. Every Restart crashed the machine and caused, as expected, a crash report. This happened EVERY Restart without exception. In a beautifully running machine I could make this happen at will. Powering up was possible by closing the lid and waiting ... then it would restart when the lid was opened. I chatted with Sabrent and they did their best to get to the root cause of this with nothing working. Finally I put the Apple proprietary SSD back in the machine and the crashing immediately was no more. I was disappointed and that's an understatement. I later read in a blog post (sorry don't remember which) a list of compatible SSDs for this machine. This Sabrent NVMe M.2 2242 was not on the list. Should it have been? I got no idea, but reinstalling the Apple SSD fixed the problem. And I fully understand the fallacy of Post hoc, ergo propter hoc but replacing the Sabrent fixed my problem. Was this problem unique to me? Again, got no idea, but this IS what happened and I feel I need to at least let others know.