1TB Sabrent Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Drive EXPIRED

Before people asking if this drive is better than XXX, go through this document [borecraft.com], written by u/Newmaxx, and it should answer your question. You can also use this flowchart [borecraft.com] to see which drive is more suitable to you.

Yes, Inland Premium is also $99 @Microcenter, and both the Inland and Sabrent share the same hardware (supposely). The difference between the two drive is warranty (Sabrent has 5 year and Inland has 3 year). Choose which ever is more convenient to you.

Yes, the SX8200 Pro/GAMMIX S11 Pro from couple weeks ago (amazon lightning deal+ coupon) is the better deal simply because it's cheaper.

And before people talk about the switch and bait issue of Sabrent Rocket SSD, here is a discussion [reddit.com]on this topic.

This is the topic I mentioned in my previous post link here.

Quote from u/Newmaxx: "It's just the new E12S layout with 96-layer NAND. It looks similar to the E8 but...it's obviously not since the E8 is keyed for x2 PCIe and the E12/E12s is x4. Don't have to look at anything else to know that. The newer E13T would be a candidate but it's DRAM-less, and the DRAM is one part of the drive you can see clearly."

"It's not an E8. The E8 is a x2 drive and is notched/keyed differently. It's also far slower. The specifications on the E12 drives can't change because that would be a marketing disaster, therefore it's reasonable to assume the E12S (which is the "new" controller) is just an E12 in a smaller process node. Unfortunately some reviewers who don't know the hardware have spread speculation about the drives which is why I made this post in the first place. The layout is different because the drive has moved to four NAND packages per side instead of two; this is good because it's now single-sided at 1TB, and the move to 96L/512Gb NAND also allows for a 4TB SKU. This NAND is equal or superior to what was used before (in my opinion, superior)."

Just fyi, the reformat tool is kinda buggy. Had to try on 3 different computers before it took.