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

The hardware is near flawless. The software, however has fatal flaws. First of all the software works only with Windows. If youre running Ubuntu Linux like I do, I guess they dont want to do business with you. Then when its time to download Acronis True Image for your Windows 10 installation because you bought it with the SSD, you find their instructions are plenty wonky. They ask for a validation code that just doesnt come with the SSD, saying that its on the sticker adhered to the product. It is not. The only thing on that label or the box labels was model number and serial number of the product. The photo they supplied as a guide clearly showed three numbers on the product. I sent photos of their sticker and box, along with screenshots of their instructions and asked how I was supposed to get the validation number to download and install Acronis True Image. They sent me a canned response telling me how to register for their website (which I clearly had already done) and how to register the product (which the photos I sent them but they hadnt bothered to look at clearly showed I had already done. I tried a second time. Heres the photos. Im registered on the AData website. My SSD is registered. You ask for a validation code, give me the photo of a sticker completely unlike the one that came on my SSD, which has only two numbers: model number and serial number. Please tell me what to do. They send me the same canned response not addressing my issue. One last try. Repeated myself, and expressed dissatisfaction with their customer service, which seems not to provide human responses. I asked what a perfect product is worth if customer service is terrible, cant they actually respond to my questions and allow me somehow to download and register Acronis True Image? I received a slightly different canned response without comment, which now showed that the validation number could be the serial number for certain unidentified instances. They had also changed the requirement that the validation number have a different number of digits than the serial number. I tried it, and finally, after three weeks, succeeded in downloading Acronis and registering it. Thats when I discovered that I didnt get Acronis True Image at all, but a small subset of the Acronis True Image tools. Why am I not surprised. As much as I like the hardware, AData gets not one more penny from me. Service after the sale truly sucks. What I I had been depending on Acronis True Image to clone a hard drive? I elected to go with a fresh install and saved two weeks! I totally rebuilt my system from scratch in two weeks less than it took AData to get me the tools that wouldnt have worked with Linux anyway. The hardware is great. Buy Acronis True Image if you have Windows. You wont be getting it from AData. If youre a Linux user, they have nothing for you. I suggest either building from a fresh install, a good idea once in awhile anyway, or using Back In Time, a free software obtainable in the Ubuntu repository.

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

I have the 500GB and the 1TB versions of this drive and have personally bench marked both of them and theyre screaming fast. The 500GB drive blows away the more expensive 500GB Samsung Evo 970 Plus in sustained write performance. The more expensive Samsung can only sustain around 800 MB/sec while this drive does 2100 MB/sec or almost 3 times faster! They both can briefly write at over 3000 MB/sec but thats using the cache on the drive. Once the cache fills up (around 20GB - 30GB) the 500GB Samsung falls to around 800 MB/sec. The 1TB versions of both drives are even faster. To put this in perspective lets say you had 100GB of videos to copy or move to this drive. The Samsung EVO 970 Plus would take over 2 minutes while the XPG SX 8200 Pro would take only 48 seconds. While ADATA (XPG) doesnt have the reputation of Samsung, Intel or Crucial, theyre using among the best controller (Silicon Motion SM 2262EN) and flash chips (Intel/Micron) available in these drives. I also suspect the firmware is mostly from Silicon Motion. Incidentally, the HP EX950 SSD uses the same controller, same flash, and has very similar performance but generally costs more than the SX8200 Pro. These drives also have similar endurance ratings to the more expensive Samsung 970 Evo Plus. Time will tell if the XPG drives prove to be as reliable as most Samsung models from the past have. But in terms of price, specs, warranty, reviews, benchmarks, endurance, etc, this drive matches or beats Samsung in just about every category.

its a good nVME drive for a good price, I wanted to replace a Mushkin Pilot 1TB NVME as my OS drive. Good: - its fast, about as fast as youre going to get on PCI-E 3.0. - priced well. Bad: - far too many temp sensors (6 of them) with no obvious one being the one you should pay attention to. - the drive runs very hot. I originally had it under my GPU when I was cloning my Mushkin Pilot Windows install to it, and it was hitting low 80s on the hottest sensor. I figured it was being choked of air since it was under my GPU (previous HP EX950 had no issues, though) but I moved it to the top slot (between my CPU and GPU) when I was done cloning and the temps are really about the same, and I dont have bad case airflow. the value of it kind of dwindles when you factor in the price of adding a heatsink, but its also nearly twice as fast on writes as my Pilot so not too upset with it. Would have went with a second HP EX950 but it was OOS so I took a chance on this, not too upset other than the temperature woes.

Everything about this is just in the sweet spot. It has a rather acceptable write endurance of 320TB, good for any home/gaming use. The storage is enough to store some games that I would rather not wait on, however the difference between a SATA SSD and an NVMe SSD is not very noticeable, so I (hesitantly) took one star off of gaming. Windows boots up in 3 seconds plus your Bios time. It has astounding read/write speeds comparable to samsung 970 drives, and it even comes with an optional heatsink, meaning if you dont have one, you can do it yourself. But make sure to PUT THE HEATSINK ON FIRST BEFORE INSTALLING IT! I put it on wrong because I attempted to install it while already in the case. It went on improperly, so I had to nervously take it off. When the heatsink is on, its gonna stay on without some hard force. Even then, Temperatures stay below 50C which is a bit high but not too high to thermal throttle and damage the thing. Also, It comes with a 5-year waranty, so that is reassuring. With the price being as it is, it is probably THE best option that you can get.

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.

I purchased this for my 2020 Alienware m17r3. Had trouble with the computer showing the SSD in disk management. I figured out that if your computer is in RAID mode it needs to be changed to AHCI. You can check by pressing F2 at startup (could be different depending on manufacturer). Here are the instructions on setting to AHCI if its in RAID. Click the Start Button and type cmd Right-click the result and select Run as administrator Type this command and press ENTER: bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal (ALT: bcdedit /set safeboot minimal) Restart the computer and enter BIOS Setup Change the SATA Operation mode to AHCI from either IDE or RAID Save changes and exit Setup and Windows will automatically boot to Safe Mode. Right-click the Windows Start Menu once more. Choose Command Prompt (Admin). Type this command and press ENTER: bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot (ALT: bcdedit /deletevalue safeboot) Reboot once more and Windows will automatically start with AHCI drivers enabled. Hopefully this helps because it took me some time to figure out.

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.

excellent ssd but no screw in packing )))

I have bought three of these in the last month. The first one went into a high end desktop with a Gigabyte mother board. The speed increase from a SATA M.2 was just unbelievable. It went from 560MBs to 3300MBs. Then I made the mistake of trying to put one of these into my ASUS GL703GE-IS74 which seems to be only available at Costco. The specs say that it should work with this PCIE M.2 but the first one I couldnt get it to boot. The second one I finally got it to boot which is a pain because since there is only one M.2 slot I had to put in a spare 1TB hard drive then clone the SATA M.2 drive that came with it. If you look for this same laptop anywhere else but Costco it says it comes with a PCIE M.2. The strange part is that the SATA M.2 is faster in my laptop than this PCIE M.2 which makes absolutely no sense. With the Samsung Magician software the speed test for Sequential on the SATA M.2 was 8,395MBs the same test on this M.2 PCIE varied between 1,738MBs to 10,087MBs no where near the 33,000MBs so it is a total waste of money for this laptop. Im about ready to take the laptop back to Costco because of the huge discrepancy in what the M.2 performance should be. Why would the Costco version come with a SATA M.2? Im going to give this a 4 star because of how hard it is to clone if you dont have 2 M.2 slots. The Samsung software wont clone from a USB M.2 adapter. That would have made it simple.