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

I have been so happy with the 500gb version of this drive, when I decided to upgrade, I went with the 1tb version. I run Manjaro Linux on a Lenova YOGA 720-15IKB, and this drive operates perfectly. One thing to be aware of, the drive comes with a heatsink that you can choose to attach or not. I attached it and the made it a tight fit inside the slim contours of the YOGA, so be aware of that.

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.

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

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’ve been running with this ssd as my operating system for a little over 2 years now I’d say and it still boots up in under 13 seconds. Also I just recently stress tested it to see the speed and it was only off by 150 or so! Really impressed with the price, definitely recommend if you only need it for a OS drive

I have had this installed and running for over a year now and happened to be logged in writing a review for a different device and thought I would add my thoughts here. I own the both 256gb version and the 2tb of these NVME drives. Both drives exceed the specs they claim on a Asus Prime X470 pro, and I cannot say anything bad about them and I am a very experienced IT and electronic technician and work both these drives hard with daily tasks and also gaming on my off time. HOWEVER, I found out not long after I purchased the 256 that Adata had already retired this line even before I purchased it which was about 6 months after they were released to the public and they no longer support any software or firmware updates for these devices. This is not a real serious problem but is simply a case of buyer beware as most people would never need to upgrade firmware in such a device for typical daily use and the only real thing the software does is make a few windows 10 optimization mods which is a one time one click thing upon installation and it has its companys own specific recommended TRIM procedure which differs drastically from the way windows 10 does it natively so its not a really huge issue here. Would I buy them again? You bet I would. These are good solid PCIE 3.0 gen 4 NVME drives that exceed their specs and are price competitive and after nearly 3 years on the 256gb now neither of them has ever thrown an error or caused an issue. Cant beat it.

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 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.

I have bought three of these in the last month. The first one went into a high end desktop with a Gigabyte mother board. The speed increase from a SATA M.2 was just unbelievable. It went from 560MBs to 3300MBs. Then I made the mistake of trying to put one of these into my ASUS GL703GE-IS74 which seems to be only available at Costco. The specs say that it should work with this PCIE M.2 but the first one I couldnt get it to boot. The second one I finally got it to boot which is a pain because since there is only one M.2 slot I had to put in a spare 1TB hard drive then clone the SATA M.2 drive that came with it. If you look for this same laptop anywhere else but Costco it says it comes with a PCIE M.2. The strange part is that the SATA M.2 is faster in my laptop than this PCIE M.2 which makes absolutely no sense. With the Samsung Magician software the speed test for Sequential on the SATA M.2 was 8,395MBs the same test on this M.2 PCIE varied between 1,738MBs to 10,087MBs no where near the 33,000MBs so it is a total waste of money for this laptop. Im about ready to take the laptop back to Costco because of the huge discrepancy in what the M.2 performance should be. Why would the Costco version come with a SATA M.2? Im going to give this a 4 star because of how hard it is to clone if you dont have 2 M.2 slots. The Samsung software wont clone from a USB M.2 adapter. That would have made it simple.

This review is for the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB 3D NAND NVMe $78.99 at purchase. I never had an NVME drive before. I was building a new PC and had a budget. At first I was just going to use a SATA SSD that I already owned. After some research I decided it may be worth the money to give it a try. I selected this drive because of a PC Mag review (I dont think Amazon allows links so youll have to search for it). It is about 90% as fast as a Samsung 970 EVO Pro at about half the cost. Its easily as good as anything but that drive if not better. So I did my own tests once I had the system built. I was rather pleasantly surprised that the drive was 5X as fast as a fairly good (Wester Digital Blue) SATA SSD. I also have a HDD that I use for backups, it clocks in 30X faster than that. Note that given the architecture of these type of drives the 1GB version should be about 10-15% faster (for any brand). If, like me, you were wondering if these were worth the money the answer is absolutely yes. This particular model stands out for its value. Its not the fastest you can buy, but that extra 10% performance comes at 215% of the price. Highly recommended.