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

Worked well ill buy again. Lots of space for gaming

I built my desktop in 2016. I included a 3 TB SATA and a 500 GB standard SSD. As games improve and increase in size, I became frustrated with having to choose between my precious, limited SSD space and my vast, albeit slow SATA space. I finally decided to invest in an M.2 SSD drive, with 2 TB so I wouldnt have to fight for space. I knew that M.2 would be faster than my standard SSD. I mean, it connects right into the motherboard for the interface. I was not prepared for just HOW fast it would be. Games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Cyberpunk 2077 used to take a couple of minutes to load. Now, I go pretty much instantly into the game. They run massively better, too. My computer used to take what seemed like an eternity to shut down, even after Windows had shut down. Now its so fast that by the time I go to switch off the power strip, its already been off for a couple of seconds. My computer runs like a dream because of this drive, and I think it very competitively priced for the speed and space. I love it and I love my computer even more because of it.

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.

2TB Model Works well when I upgraded my Mac Pro 2013 from its original 256GB SSD to a 2TB ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro NVMe SSD. $7 adapter I used is a solid fit with this SSD. Multiple speed tests show consistent results. Had it in for almost 3 1/2 days and going strong. No sleep issues and completely stable - no crashing or restarts. Running the latest version of macOS Mojave. I strongly recommend this upgrade now that prices of NVMe SSD storage has dropped become more affordable. 1TB Model Installed the 1TB version in my Mac Pro Tower 4,1 (flashed to 5,1) as a Boot Drive running Mojave with a Radeon RX-580 Graphics Card. Some initial instability, but now appears to be rock solid once I reseated the PCIe adapter in the second (16x) slot. As with my previous OWC SATA 3 PCIe card, I had to put a small felt spacer between the adapter and the graphics card to provide enough clearance for the RX 580 fan to spin freely. Not as fast as this NVMe card could actually go, but still 3 times the read speed of the SATA 3 SSD I had in it and over 10x the write speed at ~1500MBps on both due to limitations of PCIe 2.0 4x interface - whereas a bridged adapter card would be required to max out this particular NVMe card speed of ~3000MBps on these Macs on the PCIe 2.0 16x lane slot.

I used to run my old operating system off of a 1TB hard drive. By the time my OS, software, libraries, etc, would load about 2-3 minutes would go by. I first bought an AMD5 3600 processor, bought 2 G-Skill 8GB each (16GB Total) ram and made certain to buy a new motherboard that has M.2 slots to be used to run my OS from and applications mostly used. I purchased an MSI Unify motherboard because it has space for “3” M.2 NVME Slots. I put everything together in a few hours. The last thing I installed was this 1TB NVME M.2 drive. I had to go into my Bios to change my settings from “Legacy” to “UEFI.” My computer now loads in 18 seconds. Wow, what a BIG difference this M.2 drive makes. I still have 2 hard disc drives in my computer. 1 is a 3TB WD formatted to GUID and the other is a Seagate 2TB hard drive that I had originally used as a back up drive. I loaded all my games, music, movies, pictures, etc, to these 2 hard drives. Down the road I will be buying 2 more of these M.2 drives and 16 more GB’s of memory. Spend the extra cash on this M.2 drive and watch how your computer will run in turbo mode running on board applications.

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.

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.

Was shopping around for the cheapest NVME m.2 SSD I could get my hands on, that had at least 256GB of storage. Thankfully I found this 512GB unit, which (at the time of buying) about 5 dollars more than the 256. So I bought it, and Ive never used a M.2 SSD before, but hot dang I am impressed with its speed. My PC boots in about 10 seconds, fully into windows, and everything is available instantly. It really is true that Win10 is better with SSD. Ive used this PC almost daily, multiple hours a day, for the past couple of months, and I havent ran into any problems with it. I did a lot of research before picking which SSD to buy, and I landed on this one for best performance/dollar. There may be a better deal out there now, so its worth looking into competitors, bit this was the best value at the time that I could find. a few months ago, I looked at a bunch, including some that are SATA 2.5 inch drives, and those didnt appeal to me because they had the data bandwidth limitations of SATA If youve made it this far in my review, buy it, you wont be disappointed

Upgraded 2015 macbook pro at less than half the cost of apple authorised upgrade. Easy install but requires compatible adapter.

I started buying Adata memory back around 2006-2007 and I have been buying Adata SSDs pretty much ever since they came out. I have used Adata SSDs of just about every model and size both in my personal computers and for work. In all that time out of literally hundreds of drives I have one gotten one DOA and none of the others have failed so far. They might not meet the performance of some of the SSD that cost twice and three times as much, but for the price point that Adata keeps their products at, your are not going to find anything better. I bought the XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB M.2 to go in a 3 year old HP Envy 15 laptop running a 7th gen i7 processor and 16GB of memory. I have been using the new M.2 drive for about 2 weeks with absolutely no issue. The laptop does seems to boot faster now (though its also a new install of Windows 10 so that will also contribute to a faster boot time). I have attached the CrystalDiskMark scores for my laptop but in all honesty unless you are a professional gamer that is all rather useless. If you want a fast and reliable drive for way less money than a Samsung Pro or Intel then look no further than Adata.