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

My desktop PC was in major need of update, So I bought a new AMD Ryzen 3700x process, ASUS TUF gaming x570 mobo, Corsair memory and this NVMe m.2 SSD. I replaced everything and booted the machine with my old HDD, installed the Acronis cloning software and ran it to clone my HDD to my new SSD. It worked great, but I forgot to disconnected the old HDD before booting the computer after the cloning process completed and that corrupted the clone. I had to clone the drive to the SSD again, this time disconnecting the old HDD before booting and the PC successfully booted to windows. I noticed my PC was still dog slow when I booted with old HDD, but when it booted with this new SSD, the performance difference was massive. This SSD is extremely fast! I was very impressed with its performance gaming for a couple hours. The next day I noticed my OS didn’t activate and thought I should boot the old drive to retrieve the Windows activation info, so I disconnected this drive and reconnected the old HDD, retrieve the info, reconnected this SSD, and BIOS could not detect it. Spent a couple hours troubleshooting it, even installing in another NVMe M.2 slot; no luck. I’ve ordered a replacement. Hopefully the next one doesn’t flake out. I’ll update this review after validating the replacement is solid.

I purchased 2 of the 512GB drives and installed them in brand new Dell Optiplex systems. I cloned the drive that came with the Dell to the new SSD and boots fine. Decided to run some speed tests. Heres where it gets interesting. Using Crystal DiskMark, my speeds were all over the place. Slow reads, slow writes, normal writes...nothing consistent. And by slow, I mean < 50% what it should be. As low as 228MB/s read. Decided to get ADATAs SSD Toolbox software. This software is ridiculous. It will not run unless the system is in AHCI mode! All Dell systems (and surely other brands) ship in RAID ON mode (even with just one drive) and as such, the SSD Toolbox software does not work. Its very difficult to get a system to boot in AHCI mode when it was setup in RAID mode. It takes a bunch of BIOS changes and booting in SAFE mode. Too much trouble. In any case, I finally got it to run and detect the SSD. With a clone of a new Windows install from Dell (about 30GB) and a few benchmark runs, Toolbox showed it had over 1.5TB written!! Not by me!! I checked my other SSD (I bought 2) and it had 1.34TB already written and they were brand new! I also tried these two SSDs in other systems (another Dell desktop and an XPS 15 9500 laptop) and could never get these two SSDs to test correctly. Amazon sent me advance replacements (thank you, Amazon) and before doing anything, I popped it into the 2nd slot in my XPS 15 9500 and ran SSD Toolbox and it showed 0.47TB already written. 3 drives, and all had massive amounts of data already written to them. The replacment--could the 0.47TB be data written to the drive at the factory for testing (if they test)? Who knows. The replacement SSD does test correctly almost every time, unlike the first two drives. All the drives were sealed and have the same labeling, etc. Buyer beware?

Its so good, Im buying another. Ive been using one for a couple years, and Ive had no problems whatsoever. Its getting a little full, and I saw that the price has gone down tremendously on these, so it was a no-brainer to buy another one. Im still on a Gen 3 motherboard, but it has been perfectly fast for my needs, and this drive is an awesome bang for your buck.

This 1TB solid state hard drive (SSD) works fine after I overcame an installation issue. After first installing it in my HP Envy laptop, it would randomly quit and give me the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). I had installed the SSD at the same time that I replaced the keyboard which required complete disassembly of the laptop so I thought it was something else. I methodically tried reseating several connectors and still got the BSOD several times. Finally, I replaced the SSD with my old 256 GB SSD and everything worked fine. I then resorted to an old electronic maintenance trick and used a clean pencil eraser to clean the oxide off the card edge contacts on the 1 TB SSD, reinserted it and voila! Since then everything has working great! If you need to do this, make sure you dont have any static electricity around since you can damage the new SSD that way.

works great in my asrock b365 pro4 motherboard,i59400f. for my system and for gamming this is the best VME i ever had, hell with sata 3, with a score of 280% in user bench mark. this thing rocks, 10 dollars for 100gigabytes x5. you cant beat it. i cant yet tell you the life span of it for i just got it, But its been 2 months and its awsome. honestly who needs Samsung. the latency diffrence you could never notice. i cant believe i got 500 gigs for under 55$. its the cheapest and fastest thing i ever had. i suppose the only question now is, and i speak for any V nand technology and thats just the life span. well if it doesnt atleast live upto its proposed lifespan of ill be back to let you know, i encourage everyone to buy this had to buy another just to get a working set. i purchased 2 cheap and very slow micro 32 gig cards, will never buy again

This is my main drive for my computer and it works great. Easy to use and install.

excellent ssd but no screw in packing )))

Was shopping around for the cheapest NVME m.2 SSD I could get my hands on, that had at least 256GB of storage. Thankfully I found this 512GB unit, which (at the time of buying) about 5 dollars more than the 256. So I bought it, and Ive never used a M.2 SSD before, but hot dang I am impressed with its speed. My PC boots in about 10 seconds, fully into windows, and everything is available instantly. It really is true that Win10 is better with SSD. Ive used this PC almost daily, multiple hours a day, for the past couple of months, and I havent ran into any problems with it. I did a lot of research before picking which SSD to buy, and I landed on this one for best performance/dollar. There may be a better deal out there now, so its worth looking into competitors, bit this was the best value at the time that I could find. a few months ago, I looked at a bunch, including some that are SATA 2.5 inch drives, and those didnt appeal to me because they had the data bandwidth limitations of SATA If youve made it this far in my review, buy it, you wont be disappointed

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.