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

I replaced my prior Intel NVME drive from 3 years ago with this one. I still use Windows 7 and had to install two Microsoft hotfixes to get my computer to recognize the drive. After that I cloned the old drive to this one and it appears to be working fine and feels faster. My Crystal Disk speed numbers of 3,325/2947 (read/write) are right in line with the Adata claim of 3,500/3,300. Buyers need to remember that speed results are highly dependent on specific hardware setup, which NVME storage controller is used and which Windows version you have. The one drawback I can point to is that Adatas SSD toolbox is very limited under Windows 7 and they have no plans to fix it. The main problem is SMART data not being reported and the temperature reading is totally incorrect. I was used to Samsungs toolbox which is very refined so by comparison Adatas toolbox is second rate. I took one star off for this deficiency. In this purchase I chose Adatas lower cost over Samsungs reputation and software because performance for this ssd is quite similar to that of the Samsung 970 Pro. Adatas XPG SX8200 Pro is very new so time will tell if I made the right choice to save some money.

Replaced a 1tb drive was easy to clone too.

Every new computer feels fast, but this upgrade really made a difference. Mostly, I wanted the extra size and felt like this particular model had the base price to storage space ratio. The only glitch with install would be trying to figure out how to put the heat spreader on it. That piece is optional and if you just look at the screw notch, its easy to figure out. Getting to the website to download the software needed to clone my old drive was a bit of a pain. Youll have to create an account, add lots of details about your new device, submit a proof of purchase, jump through six hoops of fire and wrestle three bears before you can gain access to this needed piece of software. I had an external case made for M.2 drives, which made things easier for me to clone my C drive to this new disc. However, if you dont have an extra space for an M.2 drive, youre going to have issues. Youll probably need to clone the original drive to something else and then clone it on to your new drive. Also, my old drive was half as big. The original clone used half of my new drive. I needed to watch a couple YouTube videos to figure out how to reclaim the extra space and make it whole. Not hard, but not for the faint of heart, either. Im subtracting one-star because of how many hoops I had to jump through to get the necessary cloning software.

For the recent sale price of a buck eighteen for 1TB, this is a fantastic value vs the Samsung EVO970 1TB storage. However, the Samsung EVO970 is better overall. For just a few bucks more regular price get the Samsung EVO970. Speed: Large sequential reads and writes are roughly on par. EVO970 + on reads. XPG + on writes. Small sequential reads and writes are roughly on par. XPG + on reads. EVO970 + on writes. Large random reads and writes the EVO970 blows the XPG out of the water. Not even close. Random reads and writes small are roughly on par. EVO970 + on reads. XPG + on writes. Overall, both are pretty darn fast, and it is unlikely you will see much difference in real world use. Reliability: Samsung has legendary reliability across all their SSD and NVME products. I have used about a dozen of them now and have never had one fail. They get replaced because you just need more storage space. XPG does not have such a great reputation in this respect. If you are provisioning your main computer drive (boot/Windows), paying a premium for Samsung is worth it in every case. XPG SX8200 is better suited for temporary/unimportant fast storage needs, such as games, media scratch, program scratch, etc. I would never use this drive for Windows or long-term bulk storage. Overall, for the price I paid, I am happy with this product. However, I would never trust it for boot/Windows or bulk storage. This is a game and scratch drive. If it dies, oh well. As long you as enter this purchase under that assumption, you should be fine. Update 12/04/2019: I am dropping my rating to 3 stars. There have been a couple...quirks. I copied over a collection of video and picture projects and one of the folders got bugged out. The pictures were there and previews would load, but all pictures reported as 0 bytes. Could not delete the folder, and the pictures were basically empty shells. I had to wipe and start again. Worked OK for a day, and then the entire partition disappeared on its own. If I had data on there, it would be lost. So, this drive has proven less than reliable after only a few days of usage. One more bug and this is going back.

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.

I built my desktop in 2016. I included a 3 TB SATA and a 500 GB standard SSD. As games improve and increase in size, I became frustrated with having to choose between my precious, limited SSD space and my vast, albeit slow SATA space. I finally decided to invest in an M.2 SSD drive, with 2 TB so I wouldnt have to fight for space. I knew that M.2 would be faster than my standard SSD. I mean, it connects right into the motherboard for the interface. I was not prepared for just HOW fast it would be. Games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Cyberpunk 2077 used to take a couple of minutes to load. Now, I go pretty much instantly into the game. They run massively better, too. My computer used to take what seemed like an eternity to shut down, even after Windows had shut down. Now its so fast that by the time I go to switch off the power strip, its already been off for a couple of seconds. My computer runs like a dream because of this drive, and I think it very competitively priced for the speed and space. I love it and I love my computer even more because of it.

Well, just look at the attached photo. 3500/3000 read/write as advertised (1TB model). At this price, how can anyone compete? Well see how long it lasts, but this was a fantastic replacement for my high-end laptops POS junk OEM Lite-On 128GB nVME. Note that laptop benchmarks were lower; I put this in my desktop to get a maximum figure from CrystalDisk. I did stick the heat spreader on because, in my laptop, it has to make contact with a plate for heat dissipation, and I removed the OEM crappy silicone-feeling sticky thermal pad and replaced it with AS5. Wondering if perhaps I shouldve done that on the inside of the ADATA plate too. FYI: this benchmarks much higher than the sister product, the Gammix S11, but ADATA just announced a Pro version of that one too. Well see how it is. For now, at this price (215 presently), you really cant beat it for a 1TB drive. Buy this one, not the S11 or XPG non-Pro. Update: As prices fell, I bought a second 1TB SX8200 Pro for my desktop and couldnt be happier. And as of writing this, theres even a coupon for it. Unbelievable value. Now, there are some people who say these synthetic benchmarks arent indicative of real-world performance; this is true IF you use these drives as bulk-file storage. This is how higher-density (3D/QLC/etc.) NAND flash works - its slower and backed up by a tiny amount of lower-density, much faster cache that runs out. But thats why people who need huge storage still buy several 3TB+ mechanical HDDs, right? Very few people reading this are probably trying to move terabytes of ISO or raw video files daily with their nVME drives (unless you do it as a profession, in which case money is no object, and you probably have a company NAS) - youre probably going to use it as a game and OS drive, which this is perfect for, with a few hundred/thousand tiny files being read in random orders to load up Battlefield or Overwatch or Windows, rarely being written to in solid sequential order for gigabytes upon gigabytes except during a one-time install. In other words, this is perfect as a game/OS drive, not for a large video/storage cache.

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.

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.