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

Ive upgraded from my Samsung 840 evo SSD to this Adata M2 as my boot drive. The speeds are a vast upgrade over the SSD topping out around 540 MB/s. Ive attached my personal benchmark after installing the drive fresh and cloning the drive. I would categorize these results as acceptable, close to the 3500 MB/s range. The Arconis tool you get is horribly outdated (2018 version), you must register your product with Adata then get the key etc. It was a pain in the butt honestly. Ive used Samsung and Seagate tools in the past that were just so much better. Anyways, it did the job. It made the recovery partition too large, so I had to fix it up with diskpart after. I didnt see any issues with packaging like some reviewers, looks like its straight from the manufacturer and not a refurb. Also, dont be a dope, and make sure you buy the tiny screws/mounts to install M2 drives if you dont have them. Dont knock this product for not having the included screws. This is the kit I got and it worked fine: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Q8THWZD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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

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.

Every new computer feels fast, but this upgrade really made a difference. Mostly, I wanted the extra size and felt like this particular model had the base price to storage space ratio. The only glitch with install would be trying to figure out how to put the heat spreader on it. That piece is optional and if you just look at the screw notch, its easy to figure out. Getting to the website to download the software needed to clone my old drive was a bit of a pain. Youll have to create an account, add lots of details about your new device, submit a proof of purchase, jump through six hoops of fire and wrestle three bears before you can gain access to this needed piece of software. I had an external case made for M.2 drives, which made things easier for me to clone my C drive to this new disc. However, if you dont have an extra space for an M.2 drive, youre going to have issues. Youll probably need to clone the original drive to something else and then clone it on to your new drive. Also, my old drive was half as big. The original clone used half of my new drive. I needed to watch a couple YouTube videos to figure out how to reclaim the extra space and make it whole. Not hard, but not for the faint of heart, either. Im subtracting one-star because of how many hoops I had to jump through to get the necessary cloning software.

excellent ssd but no screw in packing )))

I am really Happy with this Drive, The above benchmark is not the best I have done with it, I just wanted to have an image to go with my review, this the bench was being completed while i was doing a couple small tasks, the Max I have seen it go for Seq Reads thus far is 3,200 MB/s, But getting this item on a lightening Deal for $95 was a steal! and am purchasing another one ( I will be paying a bit more since the deal is off) but this is still cheaper than my Samsung Evo Plus, and is very comparable in speeds, I copied a 60 GB game folder, from and to the same drive at 1.2 - 1.3 GB/s, I am pleased with that outcome, this is also very nice for moving videos around if you are a creator. The software they provide for free with your purchase to clone your drive was very fast and took 12 minutes, with no issues. I have seen people reviewing this saying its not as advertised, but please be sure you are seeing what item they are talking about. The 3500 /3000 Speeds are for the 1 TB drive, not for the 256 that I have seen, and be sure you have no bottlenecks on your system, and remember if you are copying from a Sata SSD to this, you are of course not going to get 3000 MB/S read and Write speeds, you will need to either copy to and from the same drive (SX8200 Pro) or if you have 2 of these drives. the limit is as fast as the slowest drive on your system you are copying to or from.

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.

Hopefully stays running because my brothers died

Installed these in my QNAP TS-873A model NAS, directly to the mainboard, to use for caching purposes. I picked up a pair of inexpensive black heatsinks sold by SGTKJSJS here on Amazon. Totally compatible, no issues with the NAS recognizing them at install, and great performance gains. So far, Im a couple months in on ownership and Ive noticed no strange or erratic behavior. If youre a fellow QNAP or even Synology NAS owner, I wouldnt hesitate to install and use these for virtualization purposes, either with Virtualization Station/Container Station on QNAP or whatever the equivalent is these days on Synology NAS. I could see these being a good bang vs. buck purchase for gaming purposes too, based on solid scoring at the UserBenchmark website. This was a great purchase for me, all-around.

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.