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

Installed these in my QNAP TS-873A model NAS, directly to the mainboard, to use for caching purposes. I picked up a pair of inexpensive black heatsinks sold by SGTKJSJS here on Amazon. Totally compatible, no issues with the NAS recognizing them at install, and great performance gains. So far, Im a couple months in on ownership and Ive noticed no strange or erratic behavior. If youre a fellow QNAP or even Synology NAS owner, I wouldnt hesitate to install and use these for virtualization purposes, either with Virtualization Station/Container Station on QNAP or whatever the equivalent is these days on Synology NAS. I could see these being a good bang vs. buck purchase for gaming purposes too, based on solid scoring at the UserBenchmark website. This was a great purchase for me, all-around.

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.

Here are a few metrics I looked at: --------------------------------------------------- Performance - I honestly only care about 4k speeds. Im not transferring huge files so the better the small file speed, the better. You always wait a few seconds for bit file transfers, so shaving off a couple seconds isnt a big deal. Overall responsiveness is better with 4k, so I prefer 4k. If you look at the 4k mixed @ UserBenchmark & sort, capacities of approx 1/2 TB & ignore the expensive Optane, it ranks #4 at 76.7 with #1 (970 EVO) at 85.4, about a 11% difference. Looking at other various reviewers (HotHardware, TweakTown, etc), their original reviews show strong 4k performance. It did seem to be a bit behind for a sequential mixed workload. --------------------------------------------------- Performance / Price - at 76.7 / $80 = 0.95 perf / dollar. With the 970, you get 85.4 / $110 or 0.78 perf / dollar. While the 970 EVO is roughly 11% faster with 4k, its about 22% more in the performance / dollar metric. This is using 4k mixed from UserBenchmark. --------------------------------------------------- Thermals - Im using it in a Lenovo P52 laptop via special M.2 SSD caddy. During a 40gb file transfer from main Samsung SSD to this one, it hit about 40 celsius. During CrystalDiskMark, it hit about 46 degrees. Thats acceptable with only the thin metal heatsink. I strongly recommend a proper SSD heatsink if using a standard MB & not a laptop. --------------------------------------------------- NOTE: I have pictures to attach, but theres no option in this review presently to attach them. Here are notes about them once I am able to: I did a 39 gb file transfer from my Samsung SSD to the new Adata. The xfer rate on my P52 laptop ranged from about 500-800 GBytes/sec. During the first 10 seconds, as youd expect, it definitely hit over 1600 MBytes / sec, but slowed to 500-800 sustained. During a run of CrystalDiskMark, it hit 46 degrees but settled to 32 idle. Here are the results in text: Seq Q32T1 - 3342 R / 2212 W 4KiB Q8T8 - 789 R / 826 W 4KiB Q32T1 - 291 R / 218 W 4KiB Q1T1 - 54 R / 110 W

all the talk about Ohhhh adata switched the controllers, it wont get over 1200mbps speeds is absolute rubbish! Heres proof from my order on 12/30/2020 from crystaldiskmark, photos attached and i easily acheived 3,400+ Read and 2700+ write, ANDDDDD that isnt even in an M.2 slot on my Motherboard.. its on a PCIE to m.2 adapter i have underneath my 2080 super because i have both the m.2 slots populated already! so im sure it would be even faster if i had it in the actual slot and not a 15$ PCIE to m.2 adapter... NOWWW on to the review Review is this... cheaper than samsungs rip off SSDs that youre literally paying pcie gen 4 prices for gen 3 nvmes.. nice storage capacity, plug and play and super simple.. i have over 100 TERABYTES worth of a media server for my friends and family i maintain (legally ;) ) and have an entire NAS full of these sticks, as well as IRONWOLF Red drives.. theyve been running for almost an entire year solid without a hitch.. so the stability and reliability is there! TL:DR if you can get it cheap enough, as in 30$ less than a 970 Evo plus/Evo... its a no brainer!! BUTTTT i will say ADATA IS SHADYYYYYYYYYY for not letting the public know about the behind the scenes controller swap! thats absolutely HORRID business practice but seeing as it probably doesnt have much affect on real world speed, i went ahead and bought it for 89$.. had this of been full price.. NOPE.. corsair or samsung would of got my business! overall solid SSD

I’ve been running with this ssd as my operating system for a little over 2 years now I’d say and it still boots up in under 13 seconds. Also I just recently stress tested it to see the speed and it was only off by 150 or so! Really impressed with the price, definitely recommend if you only need it for a OS drive

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!

At the time of writing this. This is one of the fastest SSDs on the market, and at the time I bought it was one of the cheapest high performance 1TB NVMe SSDs. I am super happy with it. But there is one potential issue. Its a Double Sided board. - Meaning chips are on both sides of the PCB. In a standard ATX/mATX desktop, I doubt this would ever be a problem, and the SSD will work beautifully. But on Thin and light laptops and maybe ITX motherboards depending on where the M.2 slot, you might have potential issues. Some laptops have chips, capacitors exc, under where the SSD will sit, and others (Like the Thinkpad T495 I have pictured) have a slot that is thin and a very close to the motherboard. Which as you might be able to see, has caused the drive to start bending. - I mentioned ITX motherboards as I have seen some that have their M.2 slot on the backside of the board, and for space reasons may also include these thin slots, but I am unsure. I have personally only seen 1 laptop I would be unable to install this due to chips near the M.2 slot, but plenty of other laptops where there would be no problem what so ever. I havent experienced any issues, but I am swapping this drive out to go into my desktop, and installing a single sided board SSD in my Thinkpad just in case.

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.

I was looking to upgrade the SSD in my 13 Macbook AIr 2014, since the original 128GB it came with was almost completely full. I was considering buying the expensive Apple or OWC SSD because of Apples unique form factor, but then after reading a few more articles online, discovered that this more affordable Adata SSD would work, as long as you also purchased an adapter to fit the Macbook. The first picture shows the original Apple SSD at the top, the Adata SSD in the middle, the Sintech adapter at the bottom. The second picture shows the original SSD right next to the Adata SSD with the adapter on. The next two pictures are of the Adata SSD installed, before and after adding the cool XPG heat sink + label the Adata came with. The last two pictures are the before and after speeds: not only was the size of my SSD increased by 4x, but my read and write speeds also increased by 2x and 4x, respectively. I read that some other cheaper adapters werent as good as the Sintech in terms of speed, which is why I paid more for this one. Please make sure to backup the original SSD to an external USB drive using Disk Utility (the restore feature) BEFORE swapping the SSDs, and take screenshots of the format types before too. If you know what youre doing, this is a great buy decision!

Very good