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

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!

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.

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.

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.

This is the last component to complete a new build. The main driver of the performance I was looking for was to be able to play games on a 1440 monitor smoothly with settings on High. I was prepared to wait a few months for prices on M2 NVME drives to come down. Cyber Monday did it. Pulled the trigger and the next day this appeared on my doorstep. The Motherboard I picked (Asrock Z390 Steel Legend) came with standoffs and screws for 2 of these babies and physical installation went as expected. I agree with other posts I have seen, these screws need to be larger. A magnetic screwdriver is your friend. The drive needs to be initialized in Win10 then formatted, this went smoothly, and quickly, lol. Adata has two different cloning utilities on their website and I tried the Macrium Reflect. The other one requires a registration code from Adata which proved difficult to obtain. Cloning seemed to be successful but the system would not boot from this drive at first. I ended up doing what I should have done from the beginning, doing a fresh install of Win10 from a a USB boot stick with the existing SSD disconnected. This worked fabulously, took about ten minutes. System specs: I7 9700KF running stock speeds for now Asrock Z390 Steel Legend 16G Corsair memory running at 3200, Cas level 16 Adata ZPG 8200 Pro 1 Tb M2 NVME Adata SU750 1 Tb SSD Seagate Baracuda 2 Tb HD ASUS internal DVD writer (yea I know Im a throwback) Corsair 750 Gold 80 PSU Gigabyte 2070 Super Gaming OC GPU Corsair H100i Pro CPU cooler beQuiet Pure Base 600 case Disk benchmarks: Sequential reads only listed Seagate HD: 224Mbs Adata SSD: 548 Mbs Adata 8200 Pro M2: 3480 Mbs ! It hits all advertised speeds. Cold boot takes 20 seconds. Screen loading on games is about cut in half compared to running off the SSD. Installation of programs/games is no longer a waiting game, it just happens. My last install of a new drive was a Samsung 860 500Gb SSD. Samsung Magician actually worked to clone it but it only works on Samsung drives. I would recommend going straight to a fresh install of Windows for this drive. I did talk to Adata support during the cloning attempt. I already had around 400Gb of games on the SSD prior to the M2 install and didnt want to kill my 1 Tb download allowance from Comcast for the month. Their support person was knowledgeable and friendly and said that the Macrium software usually works. Would I buy this again? Oh yes, it is in the top tier of performance for these drives and it is finally priced right, $105 for the 1 Tb version on Cyber Monday. It affects loading of any program you use, the system is now incredibly snappy. Even just web browsing! If you are still running off of a hard drive a SSD will improve your performance quite noticeably, but now that prices are coming down finally on these M2 NVME drives, just skip the SSD entirely. I wish I could have afforded the M2 drive long ago, lol. One question remains- longevity. These critters are small and dont have a lot of surface area for heat dissipation and it was a concern. The drive will automatically throttle back if heat rises beyond a threshold value. The MB I ended up with comes with its own heat sinks for M2 drives, which reinstalled easily (although tiny screws again). Ive been keeping an eye on temp on this thing and it has not been a problem at all. It is said that heat only becomes an issue under heavy sustained writes lasting over 110 seconds or so. My heaviest use case so far was probably the Windows install. But it showed no real heat increase, the transfer being limited by the USB 3.1 speed. The M2 was just loafing along at 7% or 8% utilization. I highly recommend this drive, it is the finishing touch on this system!

Here are a few metrics I looked at: --------------------------------------------------- Performance - I honestly only care about 4k speeds. Im not transferring huge files so the better the small file speed, the better. You always wait a few seconds for bit file transfers, so shaving off a couple seconds isnt a big deal. Overall responsiveness is better with 4k, so I prefer 4k. If you look at the 4k mixed @ UserBenchmark & sort, capacities of approx 1/2 TB & ignore the expensive Optane, it ranks #4 at 76.7 with #1 (970 EVO) at 85.4, about a 11% difference. Looking at other various reviewers (HotHardware, TweakTown, etc), their original reviews show strong 4k performance. It did seem to be a bit behind for a sequential mixed workload. --------------------------------------------------- Performance / Price - at 76.7 / $80 = 0.95 perf / dollar. With the 970, you get 85.4 / $110 or 0.78 perf / dollar. While the 970 EVO is roughly 11% faster with 4k, its about 22% more in the performance / dollar metric. This is using 4k mixed from UserBenchmark. --------------------------------------------------- Thermals - Im using it in a Lenovo P52 laptop via special M.2 SSD caddy. During a 40gb file transfer from main Samsung SSD to this one, it hit about 40 celsius. During CrystalDiskMark, it hit about 46 degrees. Thats acceptable with only the thin metal heatsink. I strongly recommend a proper SSD heatsink if using a standard MB & not a laptop. --------------------------------------------------- NOTE: I have pictures to attach, but theres no option in this review presently to attach them. Here are notes about them once I am able to: I did a 39 gb file transfer from my Samsung SSD to the new Adata. The xfer rate on my P52 laptop ranged from about 500-800 GBytes/sec. During the first 10 seconds, as youd expect, it definitely hit over 1600 MBytes / sec, but slowed to 500-800 sustained. During a run of CrystalDiskMark, it hit 46 degrees but settled to 32 idle. Here are the results in text: Seq Q32T1 - 3342 R / 2212 W 4KiB Q8T8 - 789 R / 826 W 4KiB Q32T1 - 291 R / 218 W 4KiB Q1T1 - 54 R / 110 W

My review of the XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drive R/W 3500/3000MB/s SSD (ASX8200PNP-2TT-C) (SM2262EN Controller Version) Previous purchases include: Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe Internal SSD, up to 2000MB/s - CT1000P1SSD8 Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560MB/s - CT1000MX500SSD1(Z) and I use the former in a Plugable USB-C NVMe enclosure (USB 3.1 Gen 2) and the latter in an OWC Mercury On-The-Go (USB 3.0) enclosure. Both were attached to a CalDigit TSI3+ Dock respectively. The first was used for media files (ripped CDs, downloads and home video projects) were the second was used for audio content related to DAW projects and accompanying software library content. While pushing upwards on the capacity of both 1TB SSD I opted to increase my available capacity and chose the XPG SX8200. My purchase decision was influenced by a YouTube review on Tech Deals SSD Review — 8 NVMe M.2 Drives Tested — Which Should You Buy? — 2019 Edition Truthfully, I imagine I would have pleased with any of the competing devices. Using the XPG SX8200 in an OWC Envoy Express TB3 enclosure. In real world use I perceive the speed advantage over USB 3.x as a noticeable lack of latency when accessing files in Apple Music or Logic Pro. Black Magic Speed Test demonstrates a clear advantage. Note, none of my home projects tax the bandwidth of these bus speeds - capacity is the issue I addressed. This device is run off the TB3 port on a 16 15-inch MBP (bring on the M1 processor!) Ive recently purchased a second XPG SX8200/Envoy Express combo with an eye towards repurposing the older devices within the household. Went to register the new device on the ADATA web page today and they appear to be having issues - didnt experience this when I registered the 1st XPG. I hope you are as pleased with the XPG SX8200 as I am.

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.

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.