SABRENT Rocket Q 2TB NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD High Performance Solid State Drive R/W 3200/3000MB/s (SB-RKTQ-2TB)

Tengo 2 en mi portátil, me han funcionado muy bien!

While I have only been using this for about a week at this point I couldn't be happier. While time will only tell and I will update this if there are any issues of course but I am very happy so far.So fast compared to what I'm use to! It has actually disrupted my morning routine as I use to have time to get a cup of coffee while my old system booted up, lol. Now I walk in with my coffee, hit the power button, and before I get my chair situated I have my login prompt. Loading large game files is so fast I hardly notice it and I have not yet been able to discern a single noticeable lag with a cut-scene load-in.I have been planning my first "real self-built" PC for some time and there was never a question in my mind that it was going to use this type of storage. I shopped around a lot and did plenty of research to make sure I was getting the best product for the money that it was going to last me for years.My previous (full-time) desktop has a 1TB HDD and I use a lot of it so I wanted to have large capacity and good expand-ability in my new system.At first I was going to go with a 1TB M.2 and then a 2TB later but I decided that if I am already using almost a TB and not even downloading the huge modern game files I was building this system to play. I would need to start bigger or be disappointed in a few years.My first REAL PC had a huge hard drive for the time (6 GB, no joke, it was the 90s) and I thought that was incredible. Now I've got a 2TB M.2 SSD the size of a pack of gum! Not to mention the speed it loads my software (Make sure you get the right motherboard or you might as well just buy a regular 2.5" SATA SSD.)I plan on adding another 2TB M.2 in the near future to round out my system storage and then a large HDD for back-up. So far I totally intend to use the same 2TB Sabrent Rocket Q M.2 for my second drive. I built my system to be upgraded easily but starting with the right storage and motherboard makes that so much easier and that is where my initial money went and I am so far very happy with that decision.(While I know drive failures are a thing to be concerned about in any form factor. I have seen no evidence of that being an issue with these. That said, always back-up your files regularly on a separate drive no matter what form of storage you use! I lost my entire laptop's drive along with the system back-up on the same HDD. Never made that mistake again.)

The Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe SSD is a good choice as an Apple Time Machine drive for data backup.My system is a 2018 15 in. MacBook Pro with 2.2GHz 6-core i7 drive, 16 GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD internal drive, running Catalina macOS 10.15.4. For more than a year, I had been using a 4TB WD MyPassport external drive for Time Machine backups, but I grew frustrated with its sloooooow data transfer.I bought the Rocket Q and installed it in an SSK aluminum enclosure (ASIN B07MNFH1PX). The installation was easy and the drive was running as soon as I plugged the USB-C cable into my Mac. I did have to reformat the drive using the Disk Utility app, but that only took a minute or two.Setting the drive up for Time Machine was easy also. All I had to do was open Time Machine in System Preferences, click on "Select Disk...", and follow the on-screen instructions. More detailed instructions can be found on Apple's website. The initial backup of the full 277 GB of data on my internal drive only took 45 minutes. The one-time encryption of the drive took another three hours. This is a huge improvement over initial backup and encryption with my WD MyPassport, which started one afternoon, ran overnight, and into the next morning.Now that the Rocket Q drive has received the initial backup and encryption, the maintenance backups only take a minute or two. The WD drive, in contrast, could take more than an hour to perform a single routine backup. That's an extraordinary improvement!The only caveat I offer is that the initial backup and encryption made the Rocket Q heat up to the extent that I was worried it would shut down. So I placed the drive atop a block of Blue Ice, and that kept the temperature under control. The regular hourly backups also generate a lot of heat, but nowhere near as much as for that first set-up. I'm looking into swapping the SSK enclosure for something that has cooling fins. Or maybe I'll use thermal glue to attach heatsink fins to the SSK.That issue aside, this Rocket Q is extraordinarily efficient to the point at which I don't even realize that it's there. I'm really happy I invested in it.Update 11/22/20: After seven months, this system is still working well. I solved the heat problem by using Gennel thermal glue to attach Antrader Aluminum Heatsink cooling fins to the SSK enclosure. That seems to dissipate the heat effectively.