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Rocket XTRM-Q External SSD

Rocket XTRM-Q External SSD

SKU: SB-XTMQ-500
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Sale price  $169.99 Regular price  $189.99
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Specs
  • Automatically detects USB or Thunderbolt 3 connections.
  • Thunderbolt 3 transfer speeds of up to 2,700 MB/s. (actual performance varies by capacities, host device, user applications, and other factors)
  • USB 3.2 mode transfer speed up to 900 MB/s.
  • Solid aluminum construction for durability and maximum heat dissipation.
  • Integrated temperature and health monitoring system.
  • Plug and play. No driver or external power supply is needed.
Dimensions

Length: 4.1 in.
Width: 1.8 in.
Height: 0.55 in.
Weight
7.4 oz.

In the box
  • Rocket XTRM-Q External NVMe SSD
    Thunderbolt 3 / USB Type-C cable
    User manual

FAQ

What chipset(s) does this enclosure use?
This portable SSD uses the Intel JHL7440 for Thunderbolt and the Realtek RTL9210B for USB.
What is the drive inside?
The drive inside is similar to our Rocket Q.
What are the advantages to the aluminum casing?
This portable SSD is more durable and runs cooler thanks to its aluminum design.

Customers also bought

  • 5 stars: 131 (83%)
  • 4 stars: 23 (15%)
  • 3 stars: 2 (1%)
  • 2 stars: 1 (1%)
  • 1 star: 1 (1%)
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Oliver Mojica
Disco muy rápido y muy práctico por lo pequeño que es

He conseguido revivir un Mac que tenía disco interno convencional. Los he instalado con el sistema operativo MacOs Monterey y el otro disco con Time Machine (1TB cada uno) y ahora el Mac vuela. Va super rápido con la conexión Thunderbolt. Una maravilla. Estoy muy satisfecho de la compra. La única pega es que el precio es un poco elevado, pero vale la pena.

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Ruben Spencer
Good device

I like it is small, it is quite fast, not reaching the transfer speed written but probably it depends on other my configurations. It is heating a little but not hot. Easy to use. It was delivered with a protective cage from rubber plastic which is good. It is clearly very expensive but if it is robust is OK, this will be seen in future.

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Kelly Wilson
built like a tank

the perfect size. super fast speed. this is so much cheaper then buying the upgraded hard drive space on a new laptop. the only bad part is this is not backward compatible. Its thunderbolt 4 but will not work on old laptop though USB. most new laptops have usb-c or thunderbolt so this is future proof. a little pricy in general but still a cheaper option then upgrading hard drive space and this works with apply and windows.

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Sabino Romano
Ottimo

Ottimo prodotto. Ottima qualità costruttiva; arriva con una custodia antiurto di gomma opzionale e un cavo thunderbolt di circa 50 cm. Velocità testata con porta thunderbolt 4: 2700 MB/s in lettura e 1700 MB/s in scrittura. Scalda parecchio, ma la cosa non sembra inficiare le prestazioni.

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Aitor Roque
Realmente rápido y sólido.

Me ha gustado mucho este SSD. Me permite ejecutar perfectamente el sistema operativo de Mac desde el mismo disco duro con prácticamente la misma rapidez que el SSD interno.

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くみ子 喜嶋
高速で発熱もあまりなかった。

レビューでは発熱するというものが多かったが、ごく普通の発熱でした。スピードもIntel Macとの組み合わせでは想定内の十分なスピードでした。気に入ったので1月の特売に合わせて、すぐに追加で大容量のものも購入しました。

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Ireti Lawal
Great product

Fast and furious

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Götz Bühler
Sabrent Rocket XTRM-Q 2TB Thunderbolt 3 Externe SSD

Ich habe die SSD Extern an einen iMac angeschlossen (Thunderbolt 2) und auf der SSD MacOS installiert.Danach wurde 1TB grosses Backup per MIgrationsassisten eingespielt, was ca. 4 Stunden dauerte. Hierbei wurde die SSD tatsächlich sehr heiß. 70°C Aussentemperatur am Gehäuse war die Spitze. Dazwischen auch mal weniger. Ca. 65 °C. Ich habe nicht dauerhaft gemessen.Nachdem die Migration abgeschlossen war, habe ich die SSD über nacht abkühlen lassen.Jetzt wird sie im Betrieb nie mehr als Handwarm.Ich denke die Temperaturspitzen treten nur beim Schrieben großer Datenmengen auf.pro===Verarbeitung und Haptikkein unangenehmer plastikgeruchSchrieb/Leseleistung unter TB3 nah an den Spezifikationen des Herstellersneutral===ob das silikoncase wirklich bei stürzen schützt bezweifele iches schütze auf jeden fall das metall vor kratzern oder mackenTB3 kabel ist reativ kurz, für imac aussreichendnegativ======Temperaturspitzten bei hohem durchsatz

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Urmi Swamy
Great product at a great price

I use this for vector graphics, map-making, data management and general productivity. I wouldn’t recommend this for those that create and then delete lots of very large files on a daily basis — like those who create and edit large video projects. But this is a very good choice for most other uses, applications and workflows.

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Sizwe Cloete
Wow, super fast

OSX TimeMachine backed up 600TB in around 30 minutes from a MacBookPro 16" with Thunderbolt cable supplied with this external drive. Copied 250TB of photos to the same disk in around 15 min using a simple copy / paste. So much faster than same backup using spinning disk external storage using the same connection & cable type, and faster than a brand new ITB SDXC card directly connected to my Mac.

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Carissa Kanyesigye
Great product , very fast and stable ! Fast shipping lees then a week

Great product , very fast and stable !One bad point … the product get very hot.Fast shipping lees then a week

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Lillie Daugherty
Blazing fast

Blazing fast, very small and works at memory speed

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Kubra Kayode
Fast delivery (within 2 working days) & good product.

The product came well packed. I used it with my iMac. It came with Thunderbolt cable, and also a Sabrent Shockproof Protector. The drive does becomes a bit warm, but so far, it has not given me any problem.Copying files to and from the drive is very smooth. Good buy indeed.

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Arlo Gerlach
Very, very, very hot

It's very fast, and it works (so far). But I'm a big techie who's owned plenty of drives, computers, camera gear, etc. and I've never seen a device run anywhere near this hot. You can quite literally burn yourself touching this. I don't have children or pets, but I'm concerned about the longevity of something like this. Fingers crossed.

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Mohammad Kareiga
It Just Works

It can be used to duplicate drives or as a external drive bay but, what was most impressive is that it allowed me to format large drive that I could not format before. It actually works better than my old computer. It's read write speed seems to be quite fast. In fact I could not tell the difference in speed between internally mounted drives an this externally mounted drive bay. I only gave three stars for tech support because I haven't used it because, I haven't needed it.

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Cassidy Mertz
Works as expected.

I bought this specifically for wiping hard drives and I have had no problems with it.

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Madhu Talwar
Auto-ejects ALL THE TIME

I have had this product for almost a year now. While it is blazing my fast, it auto-ejects all the time. It really disrupts workflow and is really a nuisance when I’m writing music and it decides to eject. I would spare yourself the $400 (that is paid for the 2tb). I give it 2 stars because the guy I called in tech support was friendly and because it is faster than advertised, but otherwise it is almost unusable.

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Tracy Kennedy
QUITE GOOD

The SABRENT USB drive bay worked pretty much as expected. It is perfect for the thicker 3.5" drives. For the thinner 3.5 inch drives it was a bit tricky to get those plugged in. I have not tried a solid state drive but the bay doors seem to be sized to correctly.It worked well with Micsoft Disk Managment and also with EASE US Partition Magic.

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Agustin Kiconco
Superfast external SSD

Ultra speedy thunderbolt external SSD. Perfect for MacBook M1 Max. Great value, form factor, look and capacity.

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Alisa Schulist
Over the Moon!

I bought a 2TB digital drive and quickly ran out of space. So needed a bigger drive. After looking around I found the Sabrent Rocket. What a machine! Tiny so it doesn't take up a lot of space, this drive is a real rocket.Fast, reliable, easy to set up and use, the Sabrent Rocket does it all. And the most differential between the 2TB drive I first purchased, and the Sabrent was $200. Think about that. $200 more for twice the space.My 2TB drive was a La Cie. I've bought a half dozen solid-state drives from LaCie and have always loved them. Given this was a different brand I was a bit hesitant at first. But once I installed it, I had zero hesitation. This is a great drive at a great price. Tough to beat.

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Edison Toy
Great

Amazing product works amazing

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Gulzar Mand
It's ok

It fits my laptop and desktop drives fine. Transfer rate is slower than I would like but it does the job.

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Kaylin Frami
Amazing product

Had a corrupt file in the boot registry that prevented Windows from launching. Was able to pull the hard drive, place it in the dock and connect it to an operational computer as an external drive. Was able to search the drive, find the corrupt file that was causing the boot error, renamed it, re-installed the drive and the problem was solved. Great product

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Isla Kelly
Loved the design but didn'n work the way i needed

Just failed to recognize one of my Gpt drives

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Preston Torp
Worked perfect the first time

replaced my old cable system with this unit. Loved the cloning ability. Was able to read drives quickly. Saved me lots of time.

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Dolly Okumu
Easy to use

Works well

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Abigale Greenfelder
Works perfectly

I used the cloning feature to replace a laptop hard drive. It was simple and efficient. I will continue to use the external drive to back up my hard drive.

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Jaydon Roob
Easy to use

The fact that I could just plug the drive in and not have to open my computer to test each drive

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Alade Olawale
great product, fast, light and portable

i wanted an external hard drive i could use for the main operating system to replace the internal hard drive on my mac, don't need huge storage so this was plenty, works great

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Emil Walker
Plug and play

Worked as needed. Plugged it in to the USB, computer recognized it and was able to transfer a bunch of files from old hard drives. Easy and efficient.

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Shade Omobolaji
Offline cloning worked. Decent manual included.

Did the job I needed it for, making a clone of a 500 GB HD to a 1 TB SSD. The offline cloning feature made it very easy. Status LEDs showed cloning progress in 25% steps. It took about 90 minutes and I did not need a PC or cloning software. The cloned partition size was not expanded on the SSD and therefore I had another 500 GB unallocated. That is not a problem. You can use Windows Disk Management to allocate it as another volume or extend another volume if adjacent to it.It came with a decent illustrated user’s manual which is getting to be very rare these days.I see other reviews mention that drives larger than 2 TB will require using GPT instead of MBR. That is a legacy Windows limitation and I don’t know how well the offline cloning feature handles it.One very minor issue I had was that the SSD did not fit exactly and leaned a bit to one side but it still worked fine. My only concern is that I may be flexing the SATA connectors which will eventually fatigue and break.

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