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

Here are a few metrics I looked at: --------------------------------------------------- Performance - I honestly only care about 4k speeds. Im not transferring huge files so the better the small file speed, the better. You always wait a few seconds for bit file transfers, so shaving off a couple seconds isnt a big deal. Overall responsiveness is better with 4k, so I prefer 4k. If you look at the 4k mixed @ UserBenchmark & sort, capacities of approx 1/2 TB & ignore the expensive Optane, it ranks #4 at 76.7 with #1 (970 EVO) at 85.4, about a 11% difference. Looking at other various reviewers (HotHardware, TweakTown, etc), their original reviews show strong 4k performance. It did seem to be a bit behind for a sequential mixed workload. --------------------------------------------------- Performance / Price - at 76.7 / $80 = 0.95 perf / dollar. With the 970, you get 85.4 / $110 or 0.78 perf / dollar. While the 970 EVO is roughly 11% faster with 4k, its about 22% more in the performance / dollar metric. This is using 4k mixed from UserBenchmark. --------------------------------------------------- Thermals - Im using it in a Lenovo P52 laptop via special M.2 SSD caddy. During a 40gb file transfer from main Samsung SSD to this one, it hit about 40 celsius. During CrystalDiskMark, it hit about 46 degrees. Thats acceptable with only the thin metal heatsink. I strongly recommend a proper SSD heatsink if using a standard MB & not a laptop. --------------------------------------------------- NOTE: I have pictures to attach, but theres no option in this review presently to attach them. Here are notes about them once I am able to: I did a 39 gb file transfer from my Samsung SSD to the new Adata. The xfer rate on my P52 laptop ranged from about 500-800 GBytes/sec. During the first 10 seconds, as youd expect, it definitely hit over 1600 MBytes / sec, but slowed to 500-800 sustained. During a run of CrystalDiskMark, it hit 46 degrees but settled to 32 idle. Here are the results in text: Seq Q32T1 - 3342 R / 2212 W 4KiB Q8T8 - 789 R / 826 W 4KiB Q32T1 - 291 R / 218 W 4KiB Q1T1 - 54 R / 110 W

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 want to start first with I could buy cheaper it in my country. Now lets get to the point. A wonderful and impressive product with amazing performance. After a lot of discussion with friends and reading, I decided to purchase it and Im not sorry for a moment. As a gamer and graphic designer I am very pleased with his performance. I bought a 512 gigabyte, it feels a bit small but thats enough if you want to install software and not a lot of games in one go. The setup was very simple, at first it was strange to me with a little inclination but after checking it turns out to be correct. It was strange to me that such a product comes in really unprotected packaging. I mean that he was in the packaging with Sealed Air seemed insufficient for that. Bottom line, amazing product! Worth the investment and also in my opinion saving space in the computer case with hard disk, does not take up space at all. Too bad my motherboard has room for only one.

Super fast (as expected), great performance for 2 years, then suddenly it hit its end of life? Set itself to read-only, totally bricked. Suspiciously a week after my warranty period was up. Would not buy from ADATA again, while its a nice cheap option, go with a more trusted brand like Samsung or Western Digital for drives that may be storing important things.

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).

As many of recent reviews mentioned, ADATA switches to slower controller SM2262G, rather than the faster SM2262EN for this SSD. The speed is more like 3000/2300 MB/s rather than the advertised 3500/3000 MB/S so thats a roughly 20% loss in speed. That been said, 3000/2300 MB/s is still a decent speed for the price range ($200 for 2tb around 2020 BF), while the 2tb versions of Samsung 970 EVO Plus and WD 750 are around $250 range. It is pretty much the cheapest 2tb TLC M.2 with mid-range speed at this point(some lower end products might go below $100/TB mark but the speed is usually below 2000 MB/s). For 99% of the people, it is almost impossible to notice significant speed difference between this one and the more expensive drives like 970 EVO Plus in daily use. So, fair speed and good pricing, one star out for ADATAs little trick on controller. For those who seeing speed below 2000 MB/s, you can go to BIOS and check if the M.2 socket has been set to PCIE 3 x 2 mode which would be the bottle neck. Switch that to PCIE 3 x 4 (if supported by mobo, of course) and you should most likely see close to 3000MB/s.

This review is for the 1TB drive. This is important to note, because most of the negative reviews are from people who dont understand how these things work, or how they are listed on Amazon. That being said, lets move on. Installed this into a new build system, on a B450 Gaming Plus Max board, with a Ryzen 3600 chip. Drive came with the m.2 screw to properly mount to the motherboard. Installed Windows to the drive via USB, and the motherboard automatically selected it as the boot drive once that was done. I want to say that again. The drive 100% works as a boot drive, and once Windows is installed, any decent motherboard will automatically select it as the boot drive. Speeds are essentially as advertised on the read side, and about 10% better than advertised on the write side. In addition, it stays quite cool. Drive did not exceed 48c during testing via CrystalDiskMark. It DOES include a very thin heat spreader, which I did put on the drive. Not sure what impact it has, but hey, every degree matters! Currently idling at 36c.

Excellent M.2 Work on iMac 2017 27”

It is over a year since installing and using this drive for my home PC. Everything was fine till my PC started to reboot out of the blue. This is after reaching about 800GB of capacity of a 2TB drive. After much troubleshooting by eliminating components that may cause the unexpected reboots, I have found the XPG 2TB NVMe drive to be the problem. I can consistently repeat the unexpected reboot now by doing high READ operation, such as copying ~100GB of files from the SX8200PNP to another NVMe drive. I have move the SX8200PNP to another NVMe slot to rule out mobo failure. Other dives works fine. It could be heat as my PC will try to boot (reboot) a few times unsuccessfully and I would turn off the PC and wait a minute or two to restart it. Other than my current situation and seeing if I can get a hold of ADATA/XPG Customer Support, I will keep my overall rating at 4 Stars. The SX8200PNP drive worked well so far till I hit the >800GB capacity and started crashing my PC. I was able to create a backup image of the partitions (from SX8200PNP to a network drive) and restore the image to my old NVMe drive to get up and running again. Trying to clone from SX8200PNP to another NVMe drive (I have tried two different ones) would result in crashing potentially due to the high READ speed of the medias. Going to the network drive was a lot slower and worked after a second try. Now, here is the frustrating part. The ADATA website is horrible. It is slow and timeouts or give me an error saying the page/site is not available. I have tried accessing the website from my PC and from my iPhone on cellular with the same crappy results. Trying to create an account does not work as the email verification email from ADATA never arrives (check spam and tried resend multiple times). Trying to submit a CSR from the Support page just hangs at looking up the serial number of the NVMe drive. I will try to search for a Customer Support number (in America) and will try to speak to someone next.

Installed easy and even had a heating pad for it not to overheat works like a beaut and nice price.