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

Upgraded from a pretty cheap SSD which wasnt super fast or large. This M.2 SSD runs the NVMe protocol over PCIe 3.0 at x4 lanes. This is not a SATA M.2 drive. Not all motherboards provide M.2 NVMe SSD slots, make sure yours is compatible! Additionally, if you plan to install Windows (or any other OS for that matter) on this drive, check the manufacturers webpage or manual to validate whether or not it is capable of booting to an NVMe SSD in the first place. I installed this drive into my Biostar GT5 X370 Racing motherboard for AM4 with a Ryzen 2600. When loading into Windows still installed on my old drive, it was fine- detected right off the bat (you may need to open Disk Manager and initialize the disk before it shows in Explorer) and the speed at which it accepted and loaded files was amazing. My trouble came when trying to install Windows to it. At first I thought it would be a simple clone job, moving from one SSD to another- turns out, there are some BIOS settings that need to be changed. I spent nearly 3 days working through tutorials and guides trying to get this working, and Im not sure what combination of them caused it to finally work, but what seems to finally make it successful was disabling secure boot and disabling CSM in the bios, then inserting a windows installation USB drive, deleting the partition on the drive and formatting it, and finally allowing the installer to create the required 4 partitions for GMT. I now have Windows successfully installed on the drive and its amazing, really, if you dont have an SSD in your system youre missing it. I press the power button and as soon as the bios screen fades the desktop is already there. Applications load almost instantly, installations are lightning fast, this drive rivals the top of the line Samsung Evo and Pro SSDs in terms of speed, at half the cost. In highly recommend this to anyone looking to increase the performance of their system without breaking the bank.

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.

I purchased the 3500mb/s version of the 2TB model and I think that 3500 must be an average of the read and write speeds. (Please refer to the attached screenshot from Blackmagics diskspeed test tool.) The drive is installed into a PCIe4 slot on an x570mobo with a 3900x. Note that this test is performed after having the drive for a year and using it as my frequently played Steam games drive. It has about 300gigs of tv shows and a terabyte of games like GTA5, some Bioshocks, Monster Hunter World. So the drive has seen fair use over time both in sequential reading as well as random access. I *FEEL* like Monster Hunter loads more quickly off of the NVME versus the SATA3 SSD I had it on before this, but MHW on PC is so much better than PS4 I cant be sure (nor bothered to move the install back to check). This doesnt do a damned thing for GTA5 (or online) load times. GTA5 is bad and nothing helps it perform well. Shame upon Rockstar and all their managers. The poor performance here is nothing to do with the drive, though. Watching shows requires almost no speed, so if you wanted to waste your money on this instead of a rust drive for storing video, the experience would be fine. Ive done a little video editing off of this (720p60 prores) and it feels good. While I wouldnt dare use this as a capture destination, storing proxies here has, in my experience, been good. I dont believe that reading off of it affects drive life, but I dont know enough about that to talk about it beyond how it felt. The proxies I made were done overnight, so I dont know what effect the drive speed might have had. Im content with the drive, and am content with the price I paid (270usd) but I wouldnt blindly buy a second one and will definitely do research on competition in the future. I have no opinion about the manufacturer or its support structure, as the drive still works fine a year in.

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.

Much ado has been made about ADATAs practice of swapping out the controller and not advertising it. Indeed, even on this Amazon listing, whether you get the one that can write at 3GB/s or--like I did--the one that writes at half that, is basically a crapshoot. However, they STILL offer the best PCIe 3.0 read speeds for the price, which for gaming is far more important than write speeds. I bought one of these about a year ago, with the old controller, which then mysteriously died recently. There arent too many reports of this--probably I just got a lemon. I monitored its temperature regularly, and it spent most of its time between 40 and 50 C, sometimes going over 60 when installing a game or some other multi-gigabyte write operation, which are generally short lived thanks to its speed. Still, one day, I randomly crashed in the middle of a game and...couldnt reboot. The BIOS warned of a faulty disk, but I couldnt believe it--I hadnt come anywhere near its TBW or the warranty period! Once I accepted that the BIOS was right, I started an RMA with ADATA and bought a replacement to tide me over in the meantime--who knows how long the RMA will take! Now, why didnt I get a different brand, knowing about ADATAs recent shadyness, you may ask? Well, like I said--the competition at this capacity is a good 20% more expensive, at least! Even more so for the Samsung 970 Evo/ Evo Plus! Also, the read speeds arent affected by the different controller, at least not enough for my gaming needs, so despite everything, it STILL wins. Now, is that still the case at todays prices? Im not so sure--~$100 for 1TiB is a great deal, but I think Id opt for 512GiB at todays prices, in which case the competition isnt too far out of reach. 20-30% translates to $10-20, instead of $30-40. $10-20 to not deal with ADATA? Maybe. $30-40? Eh, I guess they still make a good enough product. Plus, my experience with their RMA process hasnt given me any additional confidence. RMA processes are notoriously painful, but ADATAs website, at the time of writing, is basically non-functional for RMAs. I started multiple cases and got case numbers, but never got an e-mail about them, nor would they show up in their buried lookup tool. I eventually called their US number, at which some clueless dude thought that my e-mail alias for the RMA with adata in it constituted some sort of trademark infringement (it doesnt; thats not how that works!), but did actually send the paperwork over. Ill update if that goes poorly, but otherwise, you can assume that my drive was eventually replaced after some number of weeks, costing me just the price of shipping the dead drive to their US location. While the SX8200, crappy controller or otherwise, is still great bang-for-buck for gamers in my view, I consider ADATA to be on thin ice. Between the false advertising and the difficult-to-get-going RMA process, if this replacement drive also fails after a year, Id rather pony up the $40 just to deal with someone else. -1 star for the write perf lottery. -1 star for actively difficult RMA process. Know what youre buying, and expect an adversarial relationship with ADATA if anything goes wrong. UPDATE: Well, I guess I didnt imagine the possibility that USPS would lose the package. So, no opinion on ADATAs RMA per se--its a pain to get to, but what buggered me this time was...the mail. =/ I didnt buy insurance, either, but, uh, I recommend it, if you ever RMA. $13 seems worth not having to worry about this case. UPDATE 2022.02.21: So, the mail found my package about a month after I shipped it, and got it finally made it to ADATA, who promptly sent me a replacement unit that arrived safe and sound. So, at least on that end, the RMA process was smooth! I think at this point, my rating still stands--the RMA process on ADATAs end was a pain and the controller lottery unforgivable, but at least you wont necessarily be shopping elsewhere! Still, if I total up even what I might get if I resell my replacement drive, the amount for postage insurance if I had bought it, and so forth, the difference between the price of this drive and that of some of its competitors narrows sharply. I think I wouldve rather bought e.g .a Samsung and not had the pain. =/ Still, though my situation is unusual, you may still want to factor in the possibility of needing an RMA into your decision. I still think this is a fine drive for gaming, but its become clear where ADATA gets that low price of theirs.

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.

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.

My use case was using 6 of the XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drives in an AMFELTEC PCI Express Gen 3 Carrier Board for six M.2 or NGSFF (NF1) PCIe SSD modules installed in a Razer Core X Chroma Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure. Operating platform: Apple Mac Mini (purchased 2020) running MacOS Catalina v10.15.7. No matter what I tried, the SSDs showed up in DISK UTILITY as 1/2 the capacity could not be partitioned or formatted for Apple file systems. I tried to isolate where the problem was and ruled out the eGPU chassis and the AMFELTEC board as they worked with other PCIe cards. Note: I tried another external cheap enclosure to deduce that the issue was between how the ALFELTEC card saw the 2TB SSD and opened a ticket with AMFELTEC in Ontario, Canada via RMA. Bottom line: ALFELTEC engineering found the source of the problem with the ADATA SSDs. They are shipping my 6 slot SSD card back and my test 2TB SSD back to me for testing in my setup. AMFELTEC Feedback: Found the ISSUE with the XPG ADATA 2TB SSDs and their board: We found the source of the issue that you have. The issue is related to the module not connected pins that ADATA is using for module testing. We adjust logic on the board to support your ADATA modules. Since the host card manufacturer tested and updated the supporting board logic, I have a shot at getting this 12TB SSD RAID working once I get the parts back from Canada. Hats off to AMFELTEC for issuing an RMA, prepaying the FEDEX AIR, resolving the problem with XPG ADATA SSD, and returning the parts back to me. They exceeded my expectations for sales and engineering support for a problem that was outside their direct product line. Since they support all SSDs, they made it work by accomodating ADATA weird module testing logic state that they leave their products in when consumers buy the products. I will know for sure when my parts return but I am feeling better about my purchase of AMFELTEC products and their willingness to support ALL SSDs.

This is an affordable SSD alternative. It performs well in both read and write. The only complaint is that it is double sided, meaning there are chips on both sides of the card. Not all enclosures and motherboards can handle double sided cards, so make sure yours can accommodate it. If it can, then this seems to be a great SSD.

One of the best deals you can get in terms of price for speeds. Its great for gaming in terms of loading times even though most games dont fully take advantage of its speed yet. A couple notes: 1) You may not get full speed if your motherboard doesnt support it. Moreover, the slot you put it in (many motherboards have 2) can make a difference. Check your motherboard manual to be sure. And despite my manual saying both slots were identical, the upper one beside the CPU provided the best performance shown in the screenshot. The lower slot only got up to 2500. (Asus Tuf Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi). I suspect the faster slot is usually going to be the CPU-adjacent one. 2) These drives can get hot. I suggest at least getting a little heatsink (theyre like $10 on Amazon) if your motherboard doesnt include a good one. Also pay attention that the location of the drive gets some airflow.