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

Upgraded from a pretty cheap SSD which wasnt super fast or large. This M.2 SSD runs the NVMe protocol over PCIe 3.0 at x4 lanes. This is not a SATA M.2 drive. Not all motherboards provide M.2 NVMe SSD slots, make sure yours is compatible! Additionally, if you plan to install Windows (or any other OS for that matter) on this drive, check the manufacturers webpage or manual to validate whether or not it is capable of booting to an NVMe SSD in the first place. I installed this drive into my Biostar GT5 X370 Racing motherboard for AM4 with a Ryzen 2600. When loading into Windows still installed on my old drive, it was fine- detected right off the bat (you may need to open Disk Manager and initialize the disk before it shows in Explorer) and the speed at which it accepted and loaded files was amazing. My trouble came when trying to install Windows to it. At first I thought it would be a simple clone job, moving from one SSD to another- turns out, there are some BIOS settings that need to be changed. I spent nearly 3 days working through tutorials and guides trying to get this working, and Im not sure what combination of them caused it to finally work, but what seems to finally make it successful was disabling secure boot and disabling CSM in the bios, then inserting a windows installation USB drive, deleting the partition on the drive and formatting it, and finally allowing the installer to create the required 4 partitions for GMT. I now have Windows successfully installed on the drive and its amazing, really, if you dont have an SSD in your system youre missing it. I press the power button and as soon as the bios screen fades the desktop is already there. Applications load almost instantly, installations are lightning fast, this drive rivals the top of the line Samsung Evo and Pro SSDs in terms of speed, at half the cost. In highly recommend this to anyone looking to increase the performance of their system without breaking the bank.

Excellent M.2 Work on iMac 2017 27”

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.

The hardware is near flawless. The software, however has fatal flaws. First of all the software works only with Windows. If youre running Ubuntu Linux like I do, I guess they dont want to do business with you. Then when its time to download Acronis True Image for your Windows 10 installation because you bought it with the SSD, you find their instructions are plenty wonky. They ask for a validation code that just doesnt come with the SSD, saying that its on the sticker adhered to the product. It is not. The only thing on that label or the box labels was model number and serial number of the product. The photo they supplied as a guide clearly showed three numbers on the product. I sent photos of their sticker and box, along with screenshots of their instructions and asked how I was supposed to get the validation number to download and install Acronis True Image. They sent me a canned response telling me how to register for their website (which I clearly had already done) and how to register the product (which the photos I sent them but they hadnt bothered to look at clearly showed I had already done. I tried a second time. Heres the photos. Im registered on the AData website. My SSD is registered. You ask for a validation code, give me the photo of a sticker completely unlike the one that came on my SSD, which has only two numbers: model number and serial number. Please tell me what to do. They send me the same canned response not addressing my issue. One last try. Repeated myself, and expressed dissatisfaction with their customer service, which seems not to provide human responses. I asked what a perfect product is worth if customer service is terrible, cant they actually respond to my questions and allow me somehow to download and register Acronis True Image? I received a slightly different canned response without comment, which now showed that the validation number could be the serial number for certain unidentified instances. They had also changed the requirement that the validation number have a different number of digits than the serial number. I tried it, and finally, after three weeks, succeeded in downloading Acronis and registering it. Thats when I discovered that I didnt get Acronis True Image at all, but a small subset of the Acronis True Image tools. Why am I not surprised. As much as I like the hardware, AData gets not one more penny from me. Service after the sale truly sucks. What I I had been depending on Acronis True Image to clone a hard drive? I elected to go with a fresh install and saved two weeks! I totally rebuilt my system from scratch in two weeks less than it took AData to get me the tools that wouldnt have worked with Linux anyway. The hardware is great. Buy Acronis True Image if you have Windows. You wont be getting it from AData. If youre a Linux user, they have nothing for you. I suggest either building from a fresh install, a good idea once in awhile anyway, or using Back In Time, a free software obtainable in the Ubuntu repository.

I ordered this drive again two years after the first time, because my storage needs on the same PCI Gen3-capable board had increased, and the price & more recent reviews on this remained competitive. I had heard in the intervening time that ADATA had switched from the SM2262EN to the SM2262G controller, potentially affecting performance; had then heard that after public backlash they had switched back to the EN (this later revision referred to as “ENG,” and functionally equivalent to “EN,” not to “G”). That said, I was unsure whether old G controllers were still in distribution channels, especially given logistics concerns over the past two years. Unfortunately, the product listing is not specific, and I didn’t think to reach out to customer service to ask the question, until after I had placed my order. The automated response said to expect a response from a person within a few days AFTER I was due to receive the part; uh oh. But luckily, I got a response by the next day after my query, assuring me the item they had coming out to me was the “EN(G)” variant, and even guiding me on how to check once I had the packaging open, likewise assuring me that if it were “G,” I could send it right back & receive the correct one in replacement. When it arrived, it was indeed the ENG variant, matching both items I had received from them in the past. This experience of getting the ENG unit may not match your own, so if concerned, I urge you to reach out BEFORE ordering! That said, the speed and temperature profile of the one I received seems comparable to the original units, and the original review (below) stands, except that it’s now only about 2/3 the price it was then; even better! — Original review from 1/2020 below: MUCH cheaper than roughly equivalent Samsung units, with little performance hit. Especially on OSes for which the NVMe driver is not optimized for raw speed (say, macOS testing with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, as opposed to Windows testing with CrystalDiskMark), the difference is likely negligible for most workloads, for a whole lot of savings. I chose not to use the included, but flimsy heatsink sheet, in favor of the one that came with the motherboard. Using that, I’ve never topped 40°C in the slot directly below the CPU (even under loads that put the CPU up to 85°C with a good but not amazing air cooler, in a case/fan config that’s admittedly pretty good for cooling).

I would have goven it five stars because the product arrived early which was great. It was easy to put in but, my laptop wouldnt recognize it. I ended up having to Format it before my laptop would recognize it as storage. I am happy with the drive it is working great now.

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

Here is the peak performance I could get with 10g file size and different block sizes. Ran on Ubuntu OS and at block level with direct IO (to avoid any filesystem caching effect). I suggest, disable filesystem cache (or do direct IO) with the benchmarking tool you are using to find the real performance. If I increase the QDEPTH, latency shoots up crazy particularly for block sizes 64k and above. With small files (5g and less) write performance is lot better for block sizes 64k and above. Here are the ball park numbers you can expect (picked best possible number with QDEPTH which showed reasonable latency). 10g file size sequential /random read for different block sizes (MB/s) ===================================================== 4k - 1344 / 882 8k - 2485 / 1246 64k - 3121 / 1815 128k - 3124 / 2014 1m - 3125 / 2586 10g file size sequential / random write for different block sizes (MB/s) ====================================================== 4k - 645 / 466 8k - 782 / 477 64k - 790 / 478 128k - 864 / 476 1m - 825 / 473 - Sustained seq write with 1m block size is about 250 MB/s