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

I am really Happy with this Drive, The above benchmark is not the best I have done with it, I just wanted to have an image to go with my review, this the bench was being completed while i was doing a couple small tasks, the Max I have seen it go for Seq Reads thus far is 3,200 MB/s, But getting this item on a lightening Deal for $95 was a steal! and am purchasing another one ( I will be paying a bit more since the deal is off) but this is still cheaper than my Samsung Evo Plus, and is very comparable in speeds, I copied a 60 GB game folder, from and to the same drive at 1.2 - 1.3 GB/s, I am pleased with that outcome, this is also very nice for moving videos around if you are a creator. The software they provide for free with your purchase to clone your drive was very fast and took 12 minutes, with no issues. I have seen people reviewing this saying its not as advertised, but please be sure you are seeing what item they are talking about. The 3500 /3000 Speeds are for the 1 TB drive, not for the 256 that I have seen, and be sure you have no bottlenecks on your system, and remember if you are copying from a Sata SSD to this, you are of course not going to get 3000 MB/S read and Write speeds, you will need to either copy to and from the same drive (SX8200 Pro) or if you have 2 of these drives. the limit is as fast as the slowest drive on your system you are copying to or from.

I have had this installed and running for over a year now and happened to be logged in writing a review for a different device and thought I would add my thoughts here. I own the both 256gb version and the 2tb of these NVME drives. Both drives exceed the specs they claim on a Asus Prime X470 pro, and I cannot say anything bad about them and I am a very experienced IT and electronic technician and work both these drives hard with daily tasks and also gaming on my off time. HOWEVER, I found out not long after I purchased the 256 that Adata had already retired this line even before I purchased it which was about 6 months after they were released to the public and they no longer support any software or firmware updates for these devices. This is not a real serious problem but is simply a case of buyer beware as most people would never need to upgrade firmware in such a device for typical daily use and the only real thing the software does is make a few windows 10 optimization mods which is a one time one click thing upon installation and it has its companys own specific recommended TRIM procedure which differs drastically from the way windows 10 does it natively so its not a really huge issue here. Would I buy them again? You bet I would. These are good solid PCIE 3.0 gen 4 NVME drives that exceed their specs and are price competitive and after nearly 3 years on the 256gb now neither of them has ever thrown an error or caused an issue. Cant beat it.

EDIT: updated from 1 stars to 4, while ADATA did not actively reach out to fix the issue from this review, their RMA process was fast and painless, replaced the drive no questions asked beyond the RMA questionnaire form with mostly personal info/ address plus brief description. Mailed new drive promptly arrived in 3 days. Hard to ask for more than that considering the purchase was 6 months ago. Waste of money! Died in less than 4 months from purchase, only 2 months being installed from light to moderate use in laptop . Turned laptop on today to find that the computer couldnt find either boot partition. Removed and installed the old tiny SSD I upgraded from, computer booted, put this piece of garbage in a external HD case, plugged it in, has power...computer cant find it...piece of garbage, save your money dont buy this!

I purchased the 3500mb/s version of the 2TB model and I think that 3500 must be an average of the read and write speeds. (Please refer to the attached screenshot from Blackmagics diskspeed test tool.) The drive is installed into a PCIe4 slot on an x570mobo with a 3900x. Note that this test is performed after having the drive for a year and using it as my frequently played Steam games drive. It has about 300gigs of tv shows and a terabyte of games like GTA5, some Bioshocks, Monster Hunter World. So the drive has seen fair use over time both in sequential reading as well as random access. I *FEEL* like Monster Hunter loads more quickly off of the NVME versus the SATA3 SSD I had it on before this, but MHW on PC is so much better than PS4 I cant be sure (nor bothered to move the install back to check). This doesnt do a damned thing for GTA5 (or online) load times. GTA5 is bad and nothing helps it perform well. Shame upon Rockstar and all their managers. The poor performance here is nothing to do with the drive, though. Watching shows requires almost no speed, so if you wanted to waste your money on this instead of a rust drive for storing video, the experience would be fine. Ive done a little video editing off of this (720p60 prores) and it feels good. While I wouldnt dare use this as a capture destination, storing proxies here has, in my experience, been good. I dont believe that reading off of it affects drive life, but I dont know enough about that to talk about it beyond how it felt. The proxies I made were done overnight, so I dont know what effect the drive speed might have had. Im content with the drive, and am content with the price I paid (270usd) but I wouldnt blindly buy a second one and will definitely do research on competition in the future. I have no opinion about the manufacturer or its support structure, as the drive still works fine a year in.

I installed it on dell precision 5540. I didnt have the NVMe usb adaptor to clone it before installation so I directly installed it into the computer. After that, I placed my working old sata ssd drive into a SATA to usb external driver case and booted from external usb. After booted, use EASUS free version to clone external usb drive to internal new drive. Had one major issue: my new 5540 was not able detect the new NVMe drive. But after I updated the BIOS to the latest, it worked. Here are the reasons I chose this ADATA ssd: its consumes very little power in IDLE mode than other SSDs. The NVMe controller is from SMI (silicon motion, Taiwan), the flash memory is from Micron. So the components are decent. See more information from Tomshardware. My computer runs very quiet for most of time. In terms of disk performance, I tested coupled of times, sometimes I was not able to reach the advertised sequential Read number. But the random access is very good, which I care most for my usage model.

Works great and is really fast! I would recommend watching Linus Tech Tips YouTube video about this specific nvme SSD, which goes over how ADATA changes their components for these SSDs which can impact performance. It would be nice if ADATA could recognize what they are doing and make it easier for the consumer to understand that they might be getting a different version than the one in a review they might have read. The YouTube video goes more in depth. I will say though that the one I got works great and I pleased with my experience, but you might not be getting the same exact product as me. I think all variations are supposed to be very good that’s why I took the “risk” but I wasn’t too worried when purchasing this product to begin with.

I needed to upgrade the storage capacity on my HP Elite X2 tablet. This seemed just the ticket. I had no idea how much it would increase the speed over my stock hard drive. It was significant. For example, when I open a specific program it shows a famous quote while the program is loading. With the old hard drive I could read the quote with time to spare. Many of those quotes were 20-25 words. With this new drive, I cant read 3 words before it is gone and the program is loaded. I didnt realize there would be that much difference with M.2 drives but this thing is blazing fast!

Lo compré hace más de un 2 años y no tengo ningún problema con este ssd, lo que si recomiendo es bajar el programa de xpg para descargar los drivers, ya luego pueden eliminarlo, pierde un poco de rendimiento de escritura sin los drivers.

I got this black friday 2020! I have used it as a game drive for the past 2 and a half years and has worked great. I dont plan on getting rid of it anytime soon. If you need a cheap drive for gaming....it loads fast!!!

The 2tb product I just received is using the Silicon Motion SM2262ENG controller with Samsung TLC Nans Flash, and a Samsung DDR4 DRAM cache. No cutting corners on this one. Thank you for keeping it quality later on in the production cycle.