SABRENT Rocket 2230 NVMe 4.0 1TB High Performance PCIe 4.0 M.2 2230 SSD [SB-2130-1TB]

Bought my daughter a steam deck and upgraded the internal drive. Worked like a charm.

Bought this for my Steam Deck, installing it was pretty straight forward. And working great! Definitely recommend for Sabrent if you need an nvme drive. Note: first one came DOA, and was replaced quickly, no issues since.

PCIe Gen 4 drives do have a compatibility issue with Surface Pro 8 and possibly 9 too were it randomly reboots and is very unstable. This drive does work without any issues if you make the following changes before cloning existing drive to it. I get double the speed from my stock drive at 4600MB/s read speeds and battery last around 6 hours (same as my stock) at 120Hz refresh, 50% brightness and using the keyboard at lowest backlight setting and just browsing the web over Wifi 6. Drive temperatures stayed at 41C or below at high load. This is what you need to do before cloning. Step #4 is necessary for stable upgrade without random reboots. 1.) Update Windows 11 to 22H2 2.) Download the latest firmware updates for Surface Pro 8, there are some recent ones. Launch the surface app and verify that you have the latest. These are my versions. SAM: 11.101.139.0 UEFI: 18.102.141.0 3.) Turn off bitlocker so the drive is decrypted, you can turn bitlocker again after you replace the drive. 4.) In control panel, search for an applet called Power Options, its under the advance power settings when you try to edit the Power plan. Under PCI Express, change PCI Express -> Link Power State Management to Moderate Power Savings, default is maximum power savings, this was what was causing random reboots for me. This is the only change that is needed from the default factory image that ships with Surface Pro 8. 5.) Clone to Sabrent drive using an external USB C enclosure that can house a 2230 ssd (there are several sold here). You can use their free Acronis tool from Sabrents website. I personally used Macrium Reflect free version to clone as it kept the partitions the same as before, Acronis does merge the partitions which causes issues when trying to do a factory reset or recovery as partition will not be found. 6.) Swap the drives. I did not re-use the metal surface pro ssd enclosure, I instead added .5mm thermal pad directly to the top of the Sabrent Drive, it fits nicely. With 1mm thermal pad, the magnetic door did not close, so .5mm is only choice. Max temperature at high load was 41c. 7.) Boot to your new drive, test to make sure its stable, you can re-enable bitlocker to encrypt drive again. There is an optional setting you can set before or after the clone, which may give you better battery life. There is a hidden power setting in Power Options under Hard disk called AHCI Link Power Management - HIPM/DIPM By default its already set to HIPM (Host Initiated Power Management), you can set this setting to Lowest for battery to give you deeper sleep states if supported, the drive still wakes up fast regardless of the power state. To enable this setting in Power Options you can add this to the registry. Create a text file in notepad that ends in .reg extension, example Add_AHCI_Power_Setting.reg without quotes. Copy and paste registry setting below (line starts with [HKEY....) into the file and save it, double click the file in file explorer to add this setting into your registry (when prompted, click yes). This option will now show up in Power Options under Hard disk. For battery, set to Lowest, for Plugged In, you can set to Active (There is no power management with this option), for faster performance. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPowerPowerSettings012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442b2d69d7-a2a1-449c-9680-f91c70521c60] Attributes=dword:00000002

Pretty good SSD for the steam deck. Good price and it does what it just designed to do. Gave me a lot more space on my system overall and I can install way more games than you could on a 512 GB SSD. Definitely worth the buy pretty good brand too.

Got it on sale for $100 and it is a great value for that price. Works as expected in my steam deck, I have not had any issues.

I bought this very excited to finally upgrade my Surface Pro 8 to 1tb. I had read all of the reports of issues with the Surface Pro 8 but I was under the impression that as long as you made the tweaks as described, you would be fine. Sadly, for my specific SP8, that is not the case and when I did some more digging online it appears others seem to have issues where some Surface Pro 8 units just refuse to peacefully coexist with this drive. I made the tweaks to Windows, copied over the contents of my current SSD using Macrium Reflect, installed the new drive, and was blown away by how incredibly fast this drive is! It made my Surface FLY like a brand new machine. It was an absolute joy to use, and I had no issues with blue screens or reboots *while using the computer* on either AC or battery. It just flew and I was thrilled. I did notice my battery seemed to be dropping a little faster than usual, and it seemed to warm up the SP8 (although temps reported by the drive were fine, in the 40-50C range). I was going to keep an eye on it, until I discovered a bigger problem... Sadly, the one problem I was unable to solve, was the fact my Surface refused to fully go to sleep, or hibernate, with the Sabrent drive in. Every time I either pushed the power button, or closed the lid, the SP8 would go to sleep, for about 5-10 minutes. Then out of nowhere Id hear it wake up and reboot itself, without any interaction on my part. The fans would go full blast, and the computer didnt go back to sleep-- so if it was in a bag, it just got hotter and hotter and kept running. And it was a full reboot, so any programs/documents/etc I left up when I put the machine to sleep were gone. I tried every possible combination of the recommended registry tweaks and a few others, and this behavior persisted. I also wiped the drive and reinstalled Windows from scratch (using the Surface Recovery Image, and then letting it fully update back to Windows 11 22H2+latest updates) and had the same problem, so I know it wasnt just an issue with my current Windows installation. If you use your SP8 in a different way, or ALWAYS have it plugged in, and/or ALWAYS do a full shutdown when youre done, youre probably safe. But I need the ability to just put it to sleep and have it reliably wake up where I left it, and sadly I cant do that with this drive. I really, really hope Sabrent and/or Microsoft can get a firmware update or something that can resolve this issue, but for me it was a deal breaker, and I had to take the drive out and put my original, slow, boring OEM drive back. For reference, my SP8 was an early model, bought in late November 2021, so perhaps SP8s built later have a better experience. It sounds fine for SP9s. Its a great drive, its incredibly fast, but just make sure youre either using a *fully compatible* PC (which definitely doesnt include every Surface Pro 8) or youre ready for the possibility of going a bit nuts troubleshooting. My biggest problem now is now that Ive seen how much faster it made my SP8 Im desperate to find a way to somehow get that level of performance back!!

Perfect fit and easy install for steam deck. Note to anyone upgrading steam deck storage, after you install and image your new drive, if the buttons on the deck no longer work you just need to use the touch screen to navigate to settings and run a system update.

Bought this powerful lil SSD to upgrade the internal SSD on my base model (64GB) Steam Deck. Sabrent even created an instructional Youtube video for installing this SSD into your Deck! Its a high quality video with easy to follow visual instructions. The SSD itself is incredible! The high speeds and 1TB of space lets me install any game I want, in addition to fast load times!

Cloned and installed this in my surface pro 8, and it would start up and run for a minute or two before freezing, blue-screening, and doing it all over again. The surface pro only seems to work with particular drives, so since the description said it would work, I tried, and its wrong. Thats why the lost stars. Otherwise, this should be a nice drive for anyone using it for other systems.

Easy to install and works well with steam deck