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Review on πŸš€ High-Speed Sabrent 4TB Rocket Q4 NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 Internal SSD: Superior Performance Solid State Drive, Up to 4900/3500 MB/s Read/Write Speed (SB-RKTQ4-4TB) by Ryan Cornelison

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Strange compatibility issues with ASUS motherboards, but reinstalling Windows

I installed this drive as drive c: in a new build on an ASUS Prime TRX40 board with AMD 3960X along with a WD 1TB PCIE 3.0 stick as drive d:. Windows installed without any problems, but about 70% of the time I tried to boot, I got the "No boot disk" error. I've tried clearing the cmos, updating the bios, reinstalling the devices in their m.2 slot but still seeing this weird inconsistent behavior. I thought there might have been some weird hardware incompatibility issues or BIOS settings issues, so I searched the internet and saw that many other people were having the same issue with this Savrent NVME flash drive. I've tried all online guides like other people and have configured and changed various UEFI and OS settings in BIOS with no success. To be clear, the BIOS recognizes the drive and boots from the drive, when I boot it from the BIOS boot menu it just won't boot from it on normal power on. The only solution was to replace the Sabrent drive over the internet. So it appears that there is a significant percentage of inferior products that can pass Sabrent's internal quality control systems, but exhibit this odd behavior that a simple swap out can fix. As a last resort, I erased both drives and reinstalled Windows from scratch using only Sabrent. This solved the problem but still doesn't explain the wobble disk detection in the bios.

Pros
  • fixed them. Supports SMART and TRIM commands. Supports ONFi 2.3, ONFi 3.0, ONFi 3.2 and ONFi 4.0 interfaces.
Cons
  • write later