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

I have been so happy with the 500gb version of this drive, when I decided to upgrade, I went with the 1tb version. I run Manjaro Linux on a Lenova YOGA 720-15IKB, and this drive operates perfectly. One thing to be aware of, the drive comes with a heatsink that you can choose to attach or not. I attached it and the made it a tight fit inside the slim contours of the YOGA, so be aware of that.

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.

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.

Bought it in March to add some extra storage to my gaming tower, the price was nice for the 2Tb, and it was an easy install. Around August I noticed drive issues when installing a game on Steam, and when I tried to access the drive my PC wasn’t able to read it. I rebooted and it was completely gone. Bought a new PCI-E adapter for it, worked a little more reliably until late October and then started becoming unreadable again. Thought maybe it was the $20 PCI-E adapter, bought a nicer one, worked again until last night and now it’s completely dead. PC sees the adapter but shows it’s empty, chip smells burnt. If you’re looking for about 6months of use, it’s not bad, but long term it’s no prize winner. It got me through a time where spending money on a more known brand wasn’t an option, and for that I give it 3-stars.

Took a lot of time just to get the results that Ive posted. And if you use this ssd as your C drive make certain that you look to see what your original drive is and adjust the new one accordingly (i.e. MBR or GTP). Your bios might see it but the system may not boot if its setup incorrectly. Im OK with the results I received when testing although it would have been nicer if those results were a bit higher. Its sort of The luck of the Draw, never know what you might receive in terms of speed. I have the 1TB ADATA XPG SX8200 PRO 2280 and its installed in a Dell G5 15 5500 as D drive along with a 256GB NVMe PCIe M.2 2230 C drive and they work well together. UPDATE: The Writes, even though lower than advertised (2600MB/s sequential writes), they are pretty consistent at all levels of testing while the Reads, on the other hand, are all over the place and much much lower 1500~2300MB/s. I wont be buying this brand again nor will I recommend it either. UPDATE: 2.5 months later and the drive at 10 percent full reads just over 1600MB/S. The write speed has always maintained a speed of right around 2600MB/S but the read speed has been all over the place and now wont read over around 1600MB/S. I wont buy this again or recommend it either! Next time I think Ill try out the 1TB Samsung EVO Plus. Who knows, I might have better luck with that one. Update: Retuned the SSD for a replacement at the end of Nov. 2020. They were very quick with sending me a replacement, the only drawback though was that the replacement would only turn out 2000MB/S Max Read and the Write was much less. Returned that SSD and it was received by ADATA on the 15th of DEC. 2020. Havent heard from them since and its now 1/8/2021 and have requested a reply from them twice but to no avail. Well see what happens in the future and will update then. Update: The SX8200Pros were on backorder at ADATA (I thought they manufactured them... Oh well). Finally I received a third unit (another replacement from ADATA) and this one was ridiculous... 1,200MB/s Read & 2,300MB/s Write sequentially. Dont they check these before sending then to their customers? I just purchased a Crucial P5 500GB SSD just to make certain it wasnt my G5 5500 Dell Laptop that was messing things up and it came up with readings of 3,200MB/s Read and 2,900MB/s Write for it. Sorry ADATA, your SX8200PNP (PRO) is No Good! Heck with the money Im spending on shipping these units back to ADATA I could have purchased a Samsung. And fifth unit I received was terrible... Never again will I buy another ADATA anything.

Its so good, Im buying another. Ive been using one for a couple years, and Ive had no problems whatsoever. Its getting a little full, and I saw that the price has gone down tremendously on these, so it was a no-brainer to buy another one. Im still on a Gen 3 motherboard, but it has been perfectly fast for my needs, and this drive is an awesome bang for your buck.

My use case was using 6 of the XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drives in an AMFELTEC PCI Express Gen 3 Carrier Board for six M.2 or NGSFF (NF1) PCIe SSD modules installed in a Razer Core X Chroma Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure. Operating platform: Apple Mac Mini (purchased 2020) running MacOS Catalina v10.15.7. No matter what I tried, the SSDs showed up in DISK UTILITY as 1/2 the capacity could not be partitioned or formatted for Apple file systems. I tried to isolate where the problem was and ruled out the eGPU chassis and the AMFELTEC board as they worked with other PCIe cards. Note: I tried another external cheap enclosure to deduce that the issue was between how the ALFELTEC card saw the 2TB SSD and opened a ticket with AMFELTEC in Ontario, Canada via RMA. Bottom line: ALFELTEC engineering found the source of the problem with the ADATA SSDs. They are shipping my 6 slot SSD card back and my test 2TB SSD back to me for testing in my setup. AMFELTEC Feedback: Found the ISSUE with the XPG ADATA 2TB SSDs and their board: We found the source of the issue that you have. The issue is related to the module not connected pins that ADATA is using for module testing. We adjust logic on the board to support your ADATA modules. Since the host card manufacturer tested and updated the supporting board logic, I have a shot at getting this 12TB SSD RAID working once I get the parts back from Canada. Hats off to AMFELTEC for issuing an RMA, prepaying the FEDEX AIR, resolving the problem with XPG ADATA SSD, and returning the parts back to me. They exceeded my expectations for sales and engineering support for a problem that was outside their direct product line. Since they support all SSDs, they made it work by accomodating ADATA weird module testing logic state that they leave their products in when consumers buy the products. I will know for sure when my parts return but I am feeling better about my purchase of AMFELTEC products and their willingness to support ALL SSDs.

Cant recommend it. I grabbed the 500GB version based on nice reviews from Toms Hardware, PC World and a few other go to sites. The generic crystal benchmarks are on par with the website specs showing 3000Mbps+ reads and 2200Mbps+ writes - note that they always advertise max writes based on the 1TB drive as well (over 3000Mbps) and its really hard to find the smaller drive specs on the manufacturer page. PC World says it even rivals and bests the Samsung 970 Pro in many tests. Well, unfortunately, the synthetic benchmarks are just that and you should take the them with a grain of salt. 1) at least Samsung now shows the performance of the drives when they run out of TLC cache on the EVO and EVO Plus. When transferring large files, expect no more than 900Mbps write for the 500GB Samsung EVO drives. On the XPG, I cant find that information on their website, but after several of my own 8GB single file transfers to this drive, it usually falls between 400Mbps and 600Mbps in a matter of seconds and fluctuates in that range, although occasionally reaching 900Mbps for very brief periods. This is a far cry from the 500GB versions specifications and well below the capabilities of my existing and older/smaller PCIe NVME drives. You might say these speeds are based on my hardware or the file being transfered, but then why do the older drives in my system still perform better under the same conditions and closer to their advertised speeds? My older 256GB Samsung 950 Pro still outpaces it with a steady 900Mbps on the same file writes and my other first generation MyDigital BPX 500GB also sees 900Mbps writes with the same file tests. Ive also swapped the 3 drives so they each test the file copies in the onboard m.2 slot and the 2 different PCI adapters on the 16 and 8 lane slots. While the Samsung and BPX are relatively consistent at about 900Mbps write copies onto them, the XPG is usually below 600Mbps in these real world file transfers. So, yeah, it meets the Crystal DiskMark test specs, but performs leaps and bounds slower than the advertised speeds when it comes to writing larger files (8GB files arent overly huge when you consider backup software and Blu-ray isos are much larger). Id look elsewhere for your next PCIe NVMe purchase. The price is great at $99, but not when you realize its barely on PAR with standard SATA ssds in real-world file transfers that fall well below the advertised speeds of inflated and synthetic benchmarks.

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

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.