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

Of course its good stuff, great manufacture and Amazon is good too.

The drive is excellent. The downloadable software consists of an old version of the oem Acronis clone software and something called SKHSSD. The latter will not recognize the drive since it was not partitioned and formatted. The Acronis software insists that one log in or set up an Acronis account before using. The problem is that somewhere in the past I bought the home edition of the Acronis software. So when I tried to set up a new account I was told that I already had an account and when I went through the forgot password loop they sent my old serial number to me. That serial number didnt work with the new software. The story goes on but Ill jump to the end. The only way I could use the disk cloning software was to upgrade my old version of the Acronis software adding a cost of $40. The drive is an excellent product and is noticeably faster than the older 128Gb PCIe NVMe boot drive my computer came with. The terabyte is a great relief after a few years of worrying about filling up the boot drive.

Excellent M.2 Work on iMac 2017 27”

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 fast drive coming using a regular SATA hard drive and even compared to 1tb SSD. I loaded and installed windows 10 with in five minutes. Installation of programs are done in flash. Even installing Microsoft Office was done in no time. The heatsink which came with it was disappointing. If i had realized what it was i would have purchased another one. It still works fine ,just it is very thin. The speeds is what selling point for this device. As attached, I didnt reach 3500 m/s. So you could expect get lower speeds. Note that benchmarks dont really give real life speeds, you will feel the difference loading programs and games. But the key to get the best experience with this hard drive is your motherboard must support gen3x4 and good processor. I still recommend this hard drive. I am going to buy 1tb or 2tb in the near future.

excellent ssd but no screw in packing )))

RE: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 PCIe M.2 2280 Installed in ACER Aspire 5 A515-52-526C Intel i5-8265U (Quad-Core) with 32GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM, Windows 10 Home. As you can see from the attached CrystalDiskMark image the performance is fantastic for a non-gaming computer. The test was run after booting up from a disk clone of the stock SSD. I lucked out and bought this SSD for $119 during an Amazon lightning deal. I had looked at the Samsung EVO and Western Digital Black SSDs. This ADATA had similar specs and was at least $100 less. I dont have the super fast gaming systems that get mentioned & tested with this SSD. I just wanted more (reasonably priced) storage to replace the stock 256GB m.2 in my new laptop. The Aspire series have an Optane Ready PCIe port but ACER ships it with a SATA m.2 SSD. I used Acronis to make an image of the stock 256GB SSD then installed the ADATA 1TB and restored the disk image. The laptop booted back up without any problems. Since I was only swapping out the existing SSD, I didnt have to change any BIOS settings or hunt for any Windows 10 drivers people keep complaining about. I have an Intel chipset motherboard so if I really needed a driver Id just download the Intel RST software which would also be very useful if I was using the Optane features. Although Optane allows you to improve performance for cheaper platter drives, I dont see the point in using a 16GB or 32GB Intel Optane SSD to cache a copy of Windows when you could use a larger primary SSD drive in that same PCIe port. My laptop also has a connector for a 2.5 SATA drive. I just ordered the ADATA su800 SATA 1TB drive so Ill have additional storage.

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 would have goven it five stars because the product arrived early which was great. It was easy to put in but, my laptop wouldnt recognize it. I ended up having to Format it before my laptop would recognize it as storage. I am happy with the drive it is working great now.

Easy install and fast speeds, so far so good