Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This was fulfilled by amazon although the invoice clearly states sold by store4pc which is a Sabrent channel parter / distributer. The product is clearly not genuine as confirmed by Sabrent Tech support. They don't use Kensington chipsets, they use a Phishon controller and toshiba chipset. EDIT.. several days later this changed, see end of review. the card behaved strangely and poor performance, less than 1/3 rated speed. investigated further and found the card was running 512e not the native 4k nor was SMART available. that was red flag 1 placed the drive in windows10 and used sabrents software to format to 4k, it kept telling me after reboots re-running the software that it was still 512e. put it back in my other platform and it was indeed telling me it was running 4k but performance still was nowhere near spec. removed device from the heatsink and examined, you can clearly see that the chipset does not match the mfg photos. The kingston controller is not covered by the label, and the P HL chip by the pci-e notch is not there.. the layout of the entire board is not spec. sent photos to the mfg that confirmed the drive as counterfeit .. buyer beware ..... EDIT Sabrent technical called me back several days later and confirmed that manufacturing has changed the specification and design of the product and did bother to tell anyone, even the tech support at Sabrent as I stated, if you compare the chip layout paying specific attention to the resistors and cache chip by the pci-e connector.. you can see that it does not match the picture posted here on amazon by the Mfg. Further, if you look at the photo of the 3 reference layouts for Phison, you will notice that the card on the right, the reference E12 layout is what the Mfg advertises it uses, however if you look at the photo of the part that I received, it more closely resembled the E8 layout from 2017. I did not even get the E8 level of performance out of the drive. photos dont lie. the Mfg changed the specification, or their mfg faculty could not keep up with demand and are re-branding old stock in the hope the consumer doest notice. This is becoming all too typical with tech companies, release a product, get too reviews, then change the design specification to make it cheaper at the cost of performance without notifying the customer... its a bait and switch can't recommend Sabrent products at this time, until the company steps up... but be wary of what is advertised or specified on Sabrents website might not be the product you get in the end.