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

At the time of writing this. This is one of the fastest SSDs on the market, and at the time I bought it was one of the cheapest high performance 1TB NVMe SSDs. I am super happy with it. But there is one potential issue. Its a Double Sided board. - Meaning chips are on both sides of the PCB. In a standard ATX/mATX desktop, I doubt this would ever be a problem, and the SSD will work beautifully. But on Thin and light laptops and maybe ITX motherboards depending on where the M.2 slot, you might have potential issues. Some laptops have chips, capacitors exc, under where the SSD will sit, and others (Like the Thinkpad T495 I have pictured) have a slot that is thin and a very close to the motherboard. Which as you might be able to see, has caused the drive to start bending. - I mentioned ITX motherboards as I have seen some that have their M.2 slot on the backside of the board, and for space reasons may also include these thin slots, but I am unsure. I have personally only seen 1 laptop I would be unable to install this due to chips near the M.2 slot, but plenty of other laptops where there would be no problem what so ever. I havent experienced any issues, but I am swapping this drive out to go into my desktop, and installing a single sided board SSD in my Thinkpad just in case.

works great in my asrock b365 pro4 motherboard,i59400f. for my system and for gamming this is the best VME i ever had, hell with sata 3, with a score of 280% in user bench mark. this thing rocks, 10 dollars for 100gigabytes x5. you cant beat it. i cant yet tell you the life span of it for i just got it, But its been 2 months and its awsome. honestly who needs Samsung. the latency diffrence you could never notice. i cant believe i got 500 gigs for under 55$. its the cheapest and fastest thing i ever had. i suppose the only question now is, and i speak for any V nand technology and thats just the life span. well if it doesnt atleast live upto its proposed lifespan of ill be back to let you know, i encourage everyone to buy this had to buy another just to get a working set. i purchased 2 cheap and very slow micro 32 gig cards, will never buy again

I work in IT and have over a dozen of these as well as pretty much every other SSD on the market. As many reviews in 2020-2021 mention, they did switch over an important part to something inferior, but that happens from time to time and Im not going to focus on this, I am just reviewing this as it is regardless of how much better and cheaper it was before. SPEED -- 1/5 This is worse than a SATA SSD that you can purchase at a lower price. Fully empty, when you initially benchmark it, it barely even gets the advertised speed. This is on the most optimal conditions, and even under these, the benchmark looks like PCIe Gen3 x 2 and not Gen3 x 4. This is bad. It cant outperform something 30% cheaper that came out years ago. CONSISTENCY - 0/5 The absolute worst drive of any kind I have seen in my entire life. Writing a SEQUENTIAL test file to fill half the disk took 59 minutes, so about an average of 290MB per second, so maybe a really really old Samsung SSD from 8 years ago. This was jumping around from 2GB/s to 4GB/s for the first 15 seconds maybe just enough to cheat on a benchmark and then immediately all over the place, not even 100GB written when it went from 1GB/s to 60MB/s and 1.3GB/s then 60MB/s, 500MB/s to 60MB/s, 200-800MB/s, then maybe halfway through 100-200MB/s (this is where it was most stable if you want to call it that.) Its like using a random number generator for performance. TECHNOLOGY - 0/5 This uses SLC caching, has DRAM cache, basically a bunch of advanced methods to make it better and it performs worse than any drive Ive seen without any of that stuff. This is apparently TLC which is supposed to be superior to QLC. Basically, QLC tries to cram more. QLC is supposed to be slower, and less durable. This somehow performs about half as good as the same brand QLC which is baffling because the other model is supposed to be actually based on the XPG 8100, not the XPG 8200 PRO. As in, a 4TB version of this (double 2TB) that costs less than 2 times more even though 4TB is supposed to go up exponentially in price, performs better and more consistent as QLC than this TLC thats supposed to be the superior model of the same brand. VALUE - 0/5 This is where Ill quickly mention that the old version apparently was good, and therefore it means this is overhyped. No one bothers to update their reviews and no one bothers to research it further so they all immediately read or see something online and think this is a great value. Since XPG knows this, they basically charge way more for this model due to the high demand even though to give them some credit, XPG seems to have other better models. For some reason, and I doubt it was due to bad intentions, they had to switch the controller on these and it happened to be a bad choice. I think XPG probably ended up getting bait and switched by Silicon Motion, the supplier for the controller. Apparently this newer version thats bad is SM2262G and the old one is SM2262EN, but they did the switch over because the old version, although it performed almost on par with some of the best drives like Samsung (at a lower price, at the time) it had a shorter life. So I assume they switched over to this one to make it more reliable and ended up absolutely thrashing performance. Again, to be fair, this XPG 8200 Pro does have a good warranty, assuming they honor it properly. This is unfortunately the trade-off youll make unless you end up paying double for enterprise NVMe SSDs: the more consistently fast it is, the more likely it is to die 2-3x sooner. LIFE - 3/5 I have no reason to believe the life of this product would be lower than similarly priced NVMe SSDs. Since its TLC, itll have a better life by default versus QLC. The amount of writes you have to do to the drive to void the warranty is 1.5-3x more than competitors but I guess their strategy is to make sure you can never physically write that much to the disk by making it slow! TBW is 1280 which basically means you can write 700GB to it every day for 5 years. This means youd have to constantly write to it at about 8MB per second, or about 24MB/s assuming youre only using the computer 8 hours a day, lets say for work. This card will probably struggle to do that depending on what youre doing with it, how small the files are; the random speed test as I was constantly using it was probably about 27MB/s so barely above this threshold. So they do literally try to keep you from ever reaching that point by just making sure its slow and bad. GET ANY OTHER DRIVE. LITERALLY ANY OTHER ONE.

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.

Great value for money. Preforms as described has some neat toolbox you can download from the company. You get a nice little heat deflector that looks good check out the pic. Also you get a copy of Acronis if you register. Which is great and a very helpful tool for disc imaging and cloning. So if your in the market for an affordable 512gb this hasnt let me down go for it.

I was looking to get a 1 TB SSD for my Lenovo X1 Extreme (1st Gen), I initially looked into the Samsung 970 Evo Plus, which was around 250 dollars at the time of my purchase and was one of the best cards to get. Then I came across this, the Adata XPG SX8200 Pro, which advertised the same read speed and a faster write speed while being nearly a hundred dollars cheaper (It was around a 150 dollars when I bought it). Seeing the positive reviews, I bought it. I have to say that for the price, the performance is great. Although it does not achieve the advertised 3500 MB/s read and 3000 MB/s write speeds, I wasnt really expecting it to be that high considering it was not really well known. From some of the reviews I read some people mentioned how it was performing faster in a full sized PC compared a laptop, so that may have something to do with it. One thing to keep in mind is that there are chip sets on both sides of the SSD, this means that if your M.2 slot is close to the motherboard, the SSD will bend. I had this problem and I had to loosen the screw a little bit to ease the tension, but the SSD is still was left bit curved, but performance wise I have never had a problem. The included heat sink is more like a really thin thermal pad. Other than those things, I am glad I bought this SSD, as it has great performance for the price.

The box includes the SSD and a DIY heatsink. You can leave the heatsink out if you like, I left it out cause I currently dont have a screw to screw it to apply the heatsink. Your motherboard includes that screw, but i lost mine (you can buy the screws) Its okay to leave the SSD sticking out if you arent going to be moving your PC a lot. DO NOT CLONE! If you plan to use it to boot Windows do a fresh install by doing a USB boot. Prepare an empty USB. Back up everything that you need right away to the cloud or directly to the HDD. A fresh install is like starting from scratch so anything that isnt saved directly to the hard drive, the desktop isnt directly at the hard drive, will be lost till you go back to your old boot. Yes, you will need to reinstall everything so get your keys ready. Download a Windows boot to the USB directly from Microsoft. Turn off your pc and remove every storage except the USB and SSD. Turn on your pc and this will boot the Windows installer. This will delete anything in the SSD if there is any. Once its done turn off your pc to reconnect all your storage. Tune in your pc and smash ESC/F2 to boot BIOS to make sure your SSD is the priority boot. Reason why not to clone. Its almost 100% it will make a bad clone and there is a potential chance to lose your data. If you dont plant to use it to boot Windows and dont see the SSD folder. Search up in Windows Create and format hard disk click it and looks for the SSD. right click and click create volume and youre set! Easy to install and use!

excellent ssd but no screw in packing )))

I have the 500GB and the 1TB versions of this drive and have personally bench marked both of them and theyre screaming fast. The 500GB drive blows away the more expensive 500GB Samsung Evo 970 Plus in sustained write performance. The more expensive Samsung can only sustain around 800 MB/sec while this drive does 2100 MB/sec or almost 3 times faster! They both can briefly write at over 3000 MB/sec but thats using the cache on the drive. Once the cache fills up (around 20GB - 30GB) the 500GB Samsung falls to around 800 MB/sec. The 1TB versions of both drives are even faster. To put this in perspective lets say you had 100GB of videos to copy or move to this drive. The Samsung EVO 970 Plus would take over 2 minutes while the XPG SX 8200 Pro would take only 48 seconds. While ADATA (XPG) doesnt have the reputation of Samsung, Intel or Crucial, theyre using among the best controller (Silicon Motion SM 2262EN) and flash chips (Intel/Micron) available in these drives. I also suspect the firmware is mostly from Silicon Motion. Incidentally, the HP EX950 SSD uses the same controller, same flash, and has very similar performance but generally costs more than the SX8200 Pro. These drives also have similar endurance ratings to the more expensive Samsung 970 Evo Plus. Time will tell if the XPG drives prove to be as reliable as most Samsung models from the past have. But in terms of price, specs, warranty, reviews, benchmarks, endurance, etc, this drive matches or beats Samsung in just about every category.

Easy installation and fast drive. The extra TB is greatly appreciated!