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

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.

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.

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 work in IT and have over a dozen of these as well as pretty much every other SSD on the market. As many reviews in 2020-2021 mention, they did switch over an important part to something inferior, but that happens from time to time and Im not going to focus on this, I am just reviewing this as it is regardless of how much better and cheaper it was before. SPEED -- 1/5 This is worse than a SATA SSD that you can purchase at a lower price. Fully empty, when you initially benchmark it, it barely even gets the advertised speed. This is on the most optimal conditions, and even under these, the benchmark looks like PCIe Gen3 x 2 and not Gen3 x 4. This is bad. It cant outperform something 30% cheaper that came out years ago. CONSISTENCY - 0/5 The absolute worst drive of any kind I have seen in my entire life. Writing a SEQUENTIAL test file to fill half the disk took 59 minutes, so about an average of 290MB per second, so maybe a really really old Samsung SSD from 8 years ago. This was jumping around from 2GB/s to 4GB/s for the first 15 seconds maybe just enough to cheat on a benchmark and then immediately all over the place, not even 100GB written when it went from 1GB/s to 60MB/s and 1.3GB/s then 60MB/s, 500MB/s to 60MB/s, 200-800MB/s, then maybe halfway through 100-200MB/s (this is where it was most stable if you want to call it that.) Its like using a random number generator for performance. TECHNOLOGY - 0/5 This uses SLC caching, has DRAM cache, basically a bunch of advanced methods to make it better and it performs worse than any drive Ive seen without any of that stuff. This is apparently TLC which is supposed to be superior to QLC. Basically, QLC tries to cram more. QLC is supposed to be slower, and less durable. This somehow performs about half as good as the same brand QLC which is baffling because the other model is supposed to be actually based on the XPG 8100, not the XPG 8200 PRO. As in, a 4TB version of this (double 2TB) that costs less than 2 times more even though 4TB is supposed to go up exponentially in price, performs better and more consistent as QLC than this TLC thats supposed to be the superior model of the same brand. VALUE - 0/5 This is where Ill quickly mention that the old version apparently was good, and therefore it means this is overhyped. No one bothers to update their reviews and no one bothers to research it further so they all immediately read or see something online and think this is a great value. Since XPG knows this, they basically charge way more for this model due to the high demand even though to give them some credit, XPG seems to have other better models. For some reason, and I doubt it was due to bad intentions, they had to switch the controller on these and it happened to be a bad choice. I think XPG probably ended up getting bait and switched by Silicon Motion, the supplier for the controller. Apparently this newer version thats bad is SM2262G and the old one is SM2262EN, but they did the switch over because the old version, although it performed almost on par with some of the best drives like Samsung (at a lower price, at the time) it had a shorter life. So I assume they switched over to this one to make it more reliable and ended up absolutely thrashing performance. Again, to be fair, this XPG 8200 Pro does have a good warranty, assuming they honor it properly. This is unfortunately the trade-off youll make unless you end up paying double for enterprise NVMe SSDs: the more consistently fast it is, the more likely it is to die 2-3x sooner. LIFE - 3/5 I have no reason to believe the life of this product would be lower than similarly priced NVMe SSDs. Since its TLC, itll have a better life by default versus QLC. The amount of writes you have to do to the drive to void the warranty is 1.5-3x more than competitors but I guess their strategy is to make sure you can never physically write that much to the disk by making it slow! TBW is 1280 which basically means you can write 700GB to it every day for 5 years. This means youd have to constantly write to it at about 8MB per second, or about 24MB/s assuming youre only using the computer 8 hours a day, lets say for work. This card will probably struggle to do that depending on what youre doing with it, how small the files are; the random speed test as I was constantly using it was probably about 27MB/s so barely above this threshold. So they do literally try to keep you from ever reaching that point by just making sure its slow and bad. GET ANY OTHER DRIVE. LITERALLY ANY OTHER ONE.

Used it to replace my 1Tb Seagate HDD in my laptop

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!!!

Ive upgraded from my Samsung 840 evo SSD to this Adata M2 as my boot drive. The speeds are a vast upgrade over the SSD topping out around 540 MB/s. Ive attached my personal benchmark after installing the drive fresh and cloning the drive. I would categorize these results as acceptable, close to the 3500 MB/s range. The Arconis tool you get is horribly outdated (2018 version), you must register your product with Adata then get the key etc. It was a pain in the butt honestly. Ive used Samsung and Seagate tools in the past that were just so much better. Anyways, it did the job. It made the recovery partition too large, so I had to fix it up with diskpart after. I didnt see any issues with packaging like some reviewers, looks like its straight from the manufacturer and not a refurb. Also, dont be a dope, and make sure you buy the tiny screws/mounts to install M2 drives if you dont have them. Dont knock this product for not having the included screws. This is the kit I got and it worked fine: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Q8THWZD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have been so happy with the 500gb version of this drive, when I decided to upgrade, I went with the 1tb version. I run Manjaro Linux on a Lenova YOGA 720-15IKB, and this drive operates perfectly. One thing to be aware of, the drive comes with a heatsink that you can choose to attach or not. I attached it and the made it a tight fit inside the slim contours of the YOGA, so be aware of that.

So I saw a lot of people complaining that these dont perform as well as they review. While there might be some bad batches, you also need to realize that hardware types will limit the total speed. If your device only supports PCIe 2.0, which has a rating of 500MB/S per channel, and 4x you would get 2000MB/S total. So you cant get the 3500MB/S advertised. Youd max out at 2000. PCIe 3.0 can do 1000MB/S per channel, so you could max out the device at around 3350MB/S (the title says 3500, but when you see the comparison chart in the details it is a little lower). It depends on the motherboard and CPU for what is supported. NEXT! I just put together an x570 / Ryzen 3900x build. The board has two slots, so I started out with the bottom slot to get it away from the GPU hoping to cut down on heat (I have a metal heatsink on it). However, when I fired up Crystal disk mark on a fresh windows 10 install I noticed the speeds were much lower than advertised. There isnt much on the internet about this, but I found when a board has two m.2 drives it typically splits the bandwidth up. 4 PCIe lans from the CPU go to the primary slot, and 4 PCIe lans from the Chipset go to the secondary. What I realized is when I ran the drive off the chipset-based slot, it got much lower rates. When I moved it to the main slot, it got what it was rated for. Then I changed the setting in CrystalDiskmark to NVMe mode, and it went up a little more. You can see my comparisons in the pictures. Yes it does matter which slot it is in. So, if you are getting lower than rated specs check your supported PCIe version and the slot itself. Always use the CPU-based slot for the best performance(it would seem).

I used to run my old operating system off of a 1TB hard drive. By the time my OS, software, libraries, etc, would load about 2-3 minutes would go by. I first bought an AMD5 3600 processor, bought 2 G-Skill 8GB each (16GB Total) ram and made certain to buy a new motherboard that has M.2 slots to be used to run my OS from and applications mostly used. I purchased an MSI Unify motherboard because it has space for “3” M.2 NVME Slots. I put everything together in a few hours. The last thing I installed was this 1TB NVME M.2 drive. I had to go into my Bios to change my settings from “Legacy” to “UEFI.” My computer now loads in 18 seconds. Wow, what a BIG difference this M.2 drive makes. I still have 2 hard disc drives in my computer. 1 is a 3TB WD formatted to GUID and the other is a Seagate 2TB hard drive that I had originally used as a back up drive. I loaded all my games, music, movies, pictures, etc, to these 2 hard drives. Down the road I will be buying 2 more of these M.2 drives and 16 more GB’s of memory. Spend the extra cash on this M.2 drive and watch how your computer will run in turbo mode running on board applications.