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.

The 2tb product I just received is using the Silicon Motion SM2262ENG controller with Samsung TLC Nans Flash, and a Samsung DDR4 DRAM cache. No cutting corners on this one. Thank you for keeping it quality later on in the production cycle.

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.

2TB Model Works well when I upgraded my Mac Pro 2013 from its original 256GB SSD to a 2TB ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro NVMe SSD. $7 adapter I used is a solid fit with this SSD. Multiple speed tests show consistent results. Had it in for almost 3 1/2 days and going strong. No sleep issues and completely stable - no crashing or restarts. Running the latest version of macOS Mojave. I strongly recommend this upgrade now that prices of NVMe SSD storage has dropped become more affordable. 1TB Model Installed the 1TB version in my Mac Pro Tower 4,1 (flashed to 5,1) as a Boot Drive running Mojave with a Radeon RX-580 Graphics Card. Some initial instability, but now appears to be rock solid once I reseated the PCIe adapter in the second (16x) slot. As with my previous OWC SATA 3 PCIe card, I had to put a small felt spacer between the adapter and the graphics card to provide enough clearance for the RX 580 fan to spin freely. Not as fast as this NVMe card could actually go, but still 3 times the read speed of the SATA 3 SSD I had in it and over 10x the write speed at ~1500MBps on both due to limitations of PCIe 2.0 4x interface - whereas a bridged adapter card would be required to max out this particular NVMe card speed of ~3000MBps on these Macs on the PCIe 2.0 16x lane slot.

Using a RIITOP passive adapter with no controller chip for the SX8200 Pro 1TB NVME drive, I could boot up my 2012 MacPro5,1, format the SX8200, and clone MACOS 10.14.6 Mojave to it. I put it in PCIe slot 2 but got only 750 read speed, despite that my system report shows the NVME connected to 4 lanes at 5.0 GT/s. People online mentioned that slots 3 and 4 share an onboard controller chip and would increase NVME speed there, so I moved it to slot 4. Read speed increased to 937, but still not quite the expected 1,500 which the PCIe 2.0 slot should provide. Maybe thats why the SX8200 was 30% cheaper than the 970 EVO... By the way, my SX8200 has the SM2262G chip, not the better SM2262EN chip.

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.

all the talk about Ohhhh adata switched the controllers, it wont get over 1200mbps speeds is absolute rubbish! Heres proof from my order on 12/30/2020 from crystaldiskmark, photos attached and i easily acheived 3,400+ Read and 2700+ write, ANDDDDD that isnt even in an M.2 slot on my Motherboard.. its on a PCIE to m.2 adapter i have underneath my 2080 super because i have both the m.2 slots populated already! so im sure it would be even faster if i had it in the actual slot and not a 15$ PCIE to m.2 adapter... NOWWW on to the review Review is this... cheaper than samsungs rip off SSDs that youre literally paying pcie gen 4 prices for gen 3 nvmes.. nice storage capacity, plug and play and super simple.. i have over 100 TERABYTES worth of a media server for my friends and family i maintain (legally ;) ) and have an entire NAS full of these sticks, as well as IRONWOLF Red drives.. theyve been running for almost an entire year solid without a hitch.. so the stability and reliability is there! TL:DR if you can get it cheap enough, as in 30$ less than a 970 Evo plus/Evo... its a no brainer!! BUTTTT i will say ADATA IS SHADYYYYYYYYYY for not letting the public know about the behind the scenes controller swap! thats absolutely HORRID business practice but seeing as it probably doesnt have much affect on real world speed, i went ahead and bought it for 89$.. had this of been full price.. NOPE.. corsair or samsung would of got my business! overall solid SSD

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.

Ive attached actual performance benchmarks from CrystalDiskMark in the images, both for a single drive and for the drives in RAID 0 configured as the boot volume. As you can see there is a slight boost for using RAID on sequential reads and a noticeable bump to writes. The drives installed easily, setting up RAID was a breeze thanks to ASUS/Intel RST. Windows 10 Pro installed smoothly and worked first time out. So, why not 5 stars? This model is listed as being supported by ADATAs SSD Toolbox software. This software is the only way to update the firmware and offers optimization, diagnostics and utilities that Id like to try out. In RAID 0 the drives arent recognized by the SSD Toolbox application. I contacted technical support who informed me the software would not work in conjunction with a RAID volume. This is understandable because the RAID controller is masking them into a single volume. I then wiped the RAID volume and re-installed Windows 10 onto a single drive, however, even when not combined into a RAID volume where the drives are independently recognized by the OS, the software still does not see the drives. I reached out to technical support again with screenshots demonstrating the issue and the response was to uninstall/reinstall the software. I did this, no joy. Interestingly, my Samsung SATA III SSDs were both recognized. They pointed out that there is not a firmware update needed currently but things may get complicated as time goes and updates come. As of this writing, no solution to get the software to recognize the drives under normal conditions. Im not satisfied by the support, as they seem to be dodging any actual assistance and e-mail responses take an entire day between steps/recommendations. Below is the system I have the drives installed in currently. Its a home productivity workstation and planned to be a gaming rig after some key upgrades down the road. Namely would like to replace the CPU with an i7-9700k and add an RTX 2080 Ti. 1x Asus ROG Maximus XI Hero Wi-Fi Z390 1x Intel Core i3-8100 Coffee Lake Quad-Core 3.6 GHz LGA 1151 300 Series 65W 1x Kingston Technology HyperX Fury Black 32GB 3200MHz DDR4 CL18 DIMM Memory (HX432C18FBK2/32) [Kit of 2 16GB Modules] 2x Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 PCIe M.2 2280 SSD [Intel RST RAID 0, Boot Drive] 1x Samsung 850 PRO 256GB 2.5 SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-7KE256BW) 1x Samsung 860 EVO 500GB 2.5 SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E500B/AM) 1x G-Technology 4TB G-Drive USB-C (USB 3.1 Gen 1) External Hard Drive (0G05666) 1x Corsair Carbide 275R Mid-Tower Gaming Case - Tempered Glass - Black (CC-9011132-WW) 1x Corsair AX1600i 1600W ATX 80 Plus Titanium Certified Full Modular Digital ATX Power Supply (CP-9020087-NA) 1x Windows 10 Professional

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.