![]() ![]() Before installing the heat sink, my Rocket drive would reach temperatures in excess of 78 C during benchmarks. Just do your homework on these issues before purchasing the drive.ĮDIT: While my original review was 4 stars, I felt it necessary to bump it up to 5 stars after receiving and installing a heat sink. I decided to send the drive back so I did not attempt to back up the hard drive, but it is also possible that the lack of 512e would also affect the ability to back up this hard drive to another hard drive with 512e, even if the backup drive has 4k physical sectors. Popular encryption software VeraCrypt only supports 512 byte sectors, and I could not get Bitlocker to work properly after a clean install of Windows using this hard drive (could have been user error, but I worked on it for a few hours). My laptop is less than one year old and has a SATA SSD, so this doesn't just affect traditional hard drives.Īs a side note, the lack of 512e may also affect the encryption and backup of your hard drive. Be aware that there may be other compatibility issues with programs, however. ![]() If doing a clean install of Windows, the drive should be fine and is very fast, but cloning did not work for me. This drive does not emulate, which causes the above-mentioned issues. Most modern hard drives have 4k physical sectors (like this one) but emulate 512 byte sectors for compatibility purposes (some programs still are only compatible with 512 byte sectors). Cloning a hard drive is a problem, however, because you will need to have cloning software that can convert 512 byte sectors to 4k sectors, and even then, the cloning software may not be able to convert the boot partition (which happened to me), which will result in it being impossible to boot your computer. For clean installs, this should not be a problem. This minor detail cost me 12+ hours of trying to figure out how to make the drive work with what I needed to do with it (clone and encrypt my OS). This is down in the weeds a bit, but an important note is that it uses 4k byte sectors and has no 512 byte emulation (512e). ![]() This drive is very fast and install was easy. ![]()
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