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

Ive installed a bunch of m.2 drives in the past, and the ease of installation and compact size is always a plus. This drive was no different in those aspects. What was exceptionally nice, is the thermal sink included with thermal adhesive pads already applied. It is slim enough to be used in a laptop (like I did) and good looking enough to fit into just about any build authentically as well. The other impressive aspect is the fact that this is an actual m.2 2280 nvme drive and not an m.2 ssd. It also is a cached m.2 which means the speeds can remain high without massive drops. All that is pretty standard for a good m.2 2280 nvme drive, however not usually at this price point. I am beyond thrilled with the drive so far and will most likely be buying at least 1 or 2 more for even more laptop storage, and even to upgrade the already existing smaller capacity one in my main desktop rig.

Put this in my 8 year old X58 board with an PCIe adapter and WIndows recognized it right away from disk management. Couldnt get my BIOS to recognize it as a boot drive like some others reported, but thats on my old chipset and not the drive. It served its purpose as a blazin fast secondary drive once I moved everything except the OS over for my old computer and has worked amazingly well in my new build as the main drive. The included software works, but thats about all I can say about that. Not much of a bonus feature, especially considering it bugs you to upgrade to its paid premium version every time you open it. My only complaints/comments to the manufacturer are: 1) They require the SN# to register the product to get your copy of the imaging software and I popped the baby in first thing when it got here, forgetting to snap a picture of the label attached to drive. Had to turn everything off and pull it back out to find the info so I could register and actually use it. 2) The heatsink thing is a nice touch, but could have used a picture to demonstrate how its supposed to go on. I think I figured it out, but it could have been disastrous if I accidentally stuck it over the warranty info and ended up needing to copy it down for some reason.

The drive was fairly easy to install. I had two issues. The first was that there was no mounting screw. It seems petty, but a 2mm screw is not easy to find and you cant install the drive with out it (Ace hardware). The second is that it wasnt super clear how to get the software needed to clone the existing hard drive, but a bit of digging got it done. Unfortunately, there was no warning about disabling the old drive on reboot. My first clone attempt failed, but after reading a ton of comments on the internet, I recloned the drive and after the automatic shutdown, I unplugged the old drive before rebooting. The new drive booted fine after that. I plugged the old drive back in, rebooted, set the boot order in the bios and all was well. After I confirmed that the new drive was functioning well, I was able to reformate the old drive for extra storage and backup space. With the new drive in place, my system is significantly faster. Yes the drive is faster, but because the PC was constantly accessing it, even simple operations were slower than they should have been. The PC is now a joy to use. Slugs like PhotoShop are quick loading and responsive too. It seems that my PC had a fast processor with enough ram, but the old hard drive was the bottleneck.

So far I havent gotten to put my computer together yet but Im sure this will be a good addition to it.

I bought this in Dec 21 as an additional cache drive for a NAS (running Unraid) but noted lots of of media and data integrity errors after around 9-10 months, that was faulting my NAS. Removed the drive and things went back to normal. Raised a ticket (with some struggles on a less than friendly website) and eventually got an RMA. Returned at end of November 22 - still within the year guarantee period. Got a delivery receipt from UPS detailing its arrival and that it had been signed for. RMA website however says that they are still waiting to receive it...! After several weeks with no response to multiple emails, eventually got a were having supply problems - be patient... email on Dec 29th. Nothing since. Their RMA system however still says they havent received it...! So essentially, theyve either lost or thrown away my SSD, I have nothing to show for it, and they are completely ignoring my emails. Having the SSD fail is one thing - ignoring/denying that the drive has been returned (despite the UPS receipt copied to them ) is a different level of ineptitude. Ive never experienced anything like this ever with any company - I will never buy anything from them again, and in all conscience can only advise anyone else to stay well away...

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.

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.

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.

excellent ssd but no screw in packing )))

UPDATE 04/12/2020 1 star to 5 Amazon replaced the order right away and the replacement SSD has been working like a champ. I dont have any metrics etc but its been stable and working fine for 6 months now. Like many others, mine just stopped working and not showing up in BIOS. Installation and migrating Win10 from a 3 year old Samsung 950 Pro 256 SSD C: OS drive was easy and everything worked great for 10 days. I am giving adata one last try and have a replacement on the way (easy process through Amazon). Ill update this review accordingly but it will take much longer than 10 days for me to adjust the rating higher if the replacement works out. Now, the shame on me part. The very thing that I was trying to avoid, which was reinstalling Windows and apps, is now inevitable. After I migrated the OS over from my Samsung and booted with the adata, I installed it in this (Mailiya M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter - Support M.2 PCIe 2280, 2260, 2242, 2230), formatted it and set it up as a cache drive for video editing. That works great btw. Shame on me for not keeping the data on the Samsung or even backing up the OS, at least for a while....just in case. Ugh.