XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drive R/W 3500/3000MB/s SSD

This is the last component to complete a new build. The main driver of the performance I was looking for was to be able to play games on a 1440 monitor smoothly with settings on High. I was prepared to wait a few months for prices on M2 NVME drives to come down. Cyber Monday did it. Pulled the trigger and the next day this appeared on my doorstep. The Motherboard I picked (Asrock Z390 Steel Legend) came with standoffs and screws for 2 of these babies and physical installation went as expected. I agree with other posts I have seen, these screws need to be larger. A magnetic screwdriver is your friend. The drive needs to be initialized in Win10 then formatted, this went smoothly, and quickly, lol. Adata has two different cloning utilities on their website and I tried the Macrium Reflect. The other one requires a registration code from Adata which proved difficult to obtain. Cloning seemed to be successful but the system would not boot from this drive at first. I ended up doing what I should have done from the beginning, doing a fresh install of Win10 from a a USB boot stick with the existing SSD disconnected. This worked fabulously, took about ten minutes. System specs: I7 9700KF running stock speeds for now Asrock Z390 Steel Legend 16G Corsair memory running at 3200, Cas level 16 Adata ZPG 8200 Pro 1 Tb M2 NVME Adata SU750 1 Tb SSD Seagate Baracuda 2 Tb HD ASUS internal DVD writer (yea I know Im a throwback) Corsair 750 Gold 80 PSU Gigabyte 2070 Super Gaming OC GPU Corsair H100i Pro CPU cooler beQuiet Pure Base 600 case Disk benchmarks: Sequential reads only listed Seagate HD: 224Mbs Adata SSD: 548 Mbs Adata 8200 Pro M2: 3480 Mbs ! It hits all advertised speeds. Cold boot takes 20 seconds. Screen loading on games is about cut in half compared to running off the SSD. Installation of programs/games is no longer a waiting game, it just happens. My last install of a new drive was a Samsung 860 500Gb SSD. Samsung Magician actually worked to clone it but it only works on Samsung drives. I would recommend going straight to a fresh install of Windows for this drive. I did talk to Adata support during the cloning attempt. I already had around 400Gb of games on the SSD prior to the M2 install and didnt want to kill my 1 Tb download allowance from Comcast for the month. Their support person was knowledgeable and friendly and said that the Macrium software usually works. Would I buy this again? Oh yes, it is in the top tier of performance for these drives and it is finally priced right, $105 for the 1 Tb version on Cyber Monday. It affects loading of any program you use, the system is now incredibly snappy. Even just web browsing! If you are still running off of a hard drive a SSD will improve your performance quite noticeably, but now that prices are coming down finally on these M2 NVME drives, just skip the SSD entirely. I wish I could have afforded the M2 drive long ago, lol. One question remains- longevity. These critters are small and dont have a lot of surface area for heat dissipation and it was a concern. The drive will automatically throttle back if heat rises beyond a threshold value. The MB I ended up with comes with its own heat sinks for M2 drives, which reinstalled easily (although tiny screws again). Ive been keeping an eye on temp on this thing and it has not been a problem at all. It is said that heat only becomes an issue under heavy sustained writes lasting over 110 seconds or so. My heaviest use case so far was probably the Windows install. But it showed no real heat increase, the transfer being limited by the USB 3.1 speed. The M2 was just loafing along at 7% or 8% utilization. I highly recommend this drive, it is the finishing touch on this system!

I bought this in Dec 21 as an additional cache drive for a NAS (running Unraid) but noted lots of of media and data integrity errors after around 9-10 months, that was faulting my NAS. Removed the drive and things went back to normal. Raised a ticket (with some struggles on a less than friendly website) and eventually got an RMA. Returned at end of November 22 - still within the year guarantee period. Got a delivery receipt from UPS detailing its arrival and that it had been signed for. RMA website however says that they are still waiting to receive it...! After several weeks with no response to multiple emails, eventually got a were having supply problems - be patient... email on Dec 29th. Nothing since. Their RMA system however still says they havent received it...! So essentially, theyve either lost or thrown away my SSD, I have nothing to show for it, and they are completely ignoring my emails. Having the SSD fail is one thing - ignoring/denying that the drive has been returned (despite the UPS receipt copied to them ) is a different level of ineptitude. Ive never experienced anything like this ever with any company - I will never buy anything from them again, and in all conscience can only advise anyone else to stay well away...

Using a RIITOP passive adapter with no controller chip for the SX8200 Pro 1TB NVME drive, I could boot up my 2012 MacPro5,1, format the SX8200, and clone MACOS 10.14.6 Mojave to it. I put it in PCIe slot 2 but got only 750 read speed, despite that my system report shows the NVME connected to 4 lanes at 5.0 GT/s. People online mentioned that slots 3 and 4 share an onboard controller chip and would increase NVME speed there, so I moved it to slot 4. Read speed increased to 937, but still not quite the expected 1,500 which the PCIe 2.0 slot should provide. Maybe thats why the SX8200 was 30% cheaper than the 970 EVO... By the way, my SX8200 has the SM2262G chip, not the better SM2262EN chip.

This easily, hands down, has to be the most competitive pro NVMe on the market. I was initially looking at the ADATA XPG Gammix S11 because I wanted a heatsink on my NVMe drive just in case there was thermal throttling. I was also considering Samsungs 970 EVO and 960 Pro, in case they went on sale and could get great performance for cheaper. I stumbled upon this as a product preview and saw the performance figures and compared them to the Samsung drive and I was blown away. If Im remembering correctly, the major difference between the Samsung drives is that they had a longer TB Written endurance. By no means is the ADATA one a bad endurance, its just less. While this is my first NVMe drive in a build for me (let alone my first PC built by me), I am super satisfied by this purchase. The price is super competitive and is an amazing drive. I would HIGHLY recommend people get this drive before it rises in price from demand. Edit: Attached are the CrystalDiskMark results based on this drive. I had already had several things installed on the drive, so that might impact the performance. Also, your motherboard chipset makes a big difference as well. Im on an AMD B450 from MSI. From what I understand, X470 and B450 M.2 NVME drives connect directly to the CPU, while on certain Intel chipsets, they go through the chipset, which in turn throttles some of the performance. Im still very impressed with the performance and will not be removing any stars.

The Drive works great, the installation was an adventure. I was replacing an older m.2 SSD boot drive in my laptop, so needed to clone the boot drive onto the new ADATA drive. They say the Acronis True Image software is included to allow you to clone your drive. So I went ahead jumping through hoops to get this done. Hoops: 1. Create an account with ADATA 2. Give them your email address, password, check for email confirmation etc. 3. Login 4. Register your product on the website. 5. Find the serial number on the box. It is the number beside EAN. You figure this out by plugging every other number in and getting rejected. 6. Take a picture of the serial number on the box and upload. You figure out what to take a picture of by sending pictures of other numbers on the box and not getting anywhere 7. Ask for your Acronis Download. You get a link in the email ADATA sends you. 8. Make an Acronis account with your email and password 9. Plug in your Warranty number and other info into another field. 10. Get rejected. 11. Put in any other number on the box. 12. Get rejected 13. I called the tech support number. I was a little ticked off by this time. 14. Tech support summary - Yes that process you were told to follow doesnt seem to work for anybody. Go ahead and download Macrium Reflect, free edition and it will take care of your disk clone for you Summary - Save yourself time and frustration, dont register your drive. Download Macrium free and clone. My concern - if this is how there product support works, what if my drive fails? Adata needs to up their game

This is an affordable SSD alternative. It performs well in both read and write. The only complaint is that it is double sided, meaning there are chips on both sides of the card. Not all enclosures and motherboards can handle double sided cards, so make sure yours can accommodate it. If it can, then this seems to be a great SSD.

Upgraded 2015 macbook pro at less than half the cost of apple authorised upgrade. Easy install but requires compatible adapter.

This 1TB solid state hard drive (SSD) works fine after I overcame an installation issue. After first installing it in my HP Envy laptop, it would randomly quit and give me the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). I had installed the SSD at the same time that I replaced the keyboard which required complete disassembly of the laptop so I thought it was something else. I methodically tried reseating several connectors and still got the BSOD several times. Finally, I replaced the SSD with my old 256 GB SSD and everything worked fine. I then resorted to an old electronic maintenance trick and used a clean pencil eraser to clean the oxide off the card edge contacts on the 1 TB SSD, reinserted it and voila! Since then everything has working great! If you need to do this, make sure you dont have any static electricity around since you can damage the new SSD that way.