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

I needed more storage but I didnt want to use another SATA cable, so I figured Id utilize the M.2 I left vacant when I built my PC. Installation was super simple. It comes with a heatsink which is pretty much a thin piece of metal, with adhesive that you adhere to the M.2. Then slide it into place, and voila, you have more storage. The results? I did not notice any difference in terms of speed. I moved my OS and a few of my games to the ADATA and it all worked as I expected. While this drive is FAR faster on paper than an SSD, dont expect it to actually outperform a decent SSD in load times for video games and whatnot. I Included some screenshots of a test from crystaldiskmark and HWMonitor to show how the drive performed under load. While it is about 450mbp/s slower than advertised, its still a big upgrade from the 500mbp/s my original SSD is capable of. Because of this, I did knock the rating down to a 4 star. If I had gotten the advertised speeds, this drive would be a 5 star. The max temp was 55C, which is fine, but Id like to stay under 50, so Ill end up getting an aftermarket heatsink for it. Its not hard to take the drive out, so Im not bothered by the task. TLDR; Totally worth getting the drive. Performs well, runs a little warmer than Id like (55C max during crystaldiskmark), so maybe buy an aftermarket heatsink, as the included one is a thin piece of metal. 4/5!

This is fast drive coming using a regular SATA hard drive and even compared to 1tb SSD. I loaded and installed windows 10 with in five minutes. Installation of programs are done in flash. Even installing Microsoft Office was done in no time. The heatsink which came with it was disappointing. If i had realized what it was i would have purchased another one. It still works fine ,just it is very thin. The speeds is what selling point for this device. As attached, I didnt reach 3500 m/s. So you could expect get lower speeds. Note that benchmarks dont really give real life speeds, you will feel the difference loading programs and games. But the key to get the best experience with this hard drive is your motherboard must support gen3x4 and good processor. I still recommend this hard drive. I am going to buy 1tb or 2tb in the near future.

I have the 500GB and the 1TB versions of this drive and have personally bench marked both of them and theyre screaming fast. The 500GB drive blows away the more expensive 500GB Samsung Evo 970 Plus in sustained write performance. The more expensive Samsung can only sustain around 800 MB/sec while this drive does 2100 MB/sec or almost 3 times faster! They both can briefly write at over 3000 MB/sec but thats using the cache on the drive. Once the cache fills up (around 20GB - 30GB) the 500GB Samsung falls to around 800 MB/sec. The 1TB versions of both drives are even faster. To put this in perspective lets say you had 100GB of videos to copy or move to this drive. The Samsung EVO 970 Plus would take over 2 minutes while the XPG SX 8200 Pro would take only 48 seconds. While ADATA (XPG) doesnt have the reputation of Samsung, Intel or Crucial, theyre using among the best controller (Silicon Motion SM 2262EN) and flash chips (Intel/Micron) available in these drives. I also suspect the firmware is mostly from Silicon Motion. Incidentally, the HP EX950 SSD uses the same controller, same flash, and has very similar performance but generally costs more than the SX8200 Pro. These drives also have similar endurance ratings to the more expensive Samsung 970 Evo Plus. Time will tell if the XPG drives prove to be as reliable as most Samsung models from the past have. But in terms of price, specs, warranty, reviews, benchmarks, endurance, etc, this drive matches or beats Samsung in just about every category.

I got this black friday 2020! I have used it as a game drive for the past 2 and a half years and has worked great. I dont plan on getting rid of it anytime soon. If you need a cheap drive for gaming....it loads fast!!!

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.

The first one I got was DOA. Would not show up up all no matter how I mounted the drive. Amazon came to the rescue with a replacement that worked completely fine.

Works great and is really fast! I would recommend watching Linus Tech Tips YouTube video about this specific nvme SSD, which goes over how ADATA changes their components for these SSDs which can impact performance. It would be nice if ADATA could recognize what they are doing and make it easier for the consumer to understand that they might be getting a different version than the one in a review they might have read. The YouTube video goes more in depth. I will say though that the one I got works great and I pleased with my experience, but you might not be getting the same exact product as me. I think all variations are supposed to be very good that’s why I took the “risk” but I wasn’t too worried when purchasing this product to begin with.

I purchased this for my 2020 Alienware m17r3. Had trouble with the computer showing the SSD in disk management. I figured out that if your computer is in RAID mode it needs to be changed to AHCI. You can check by pressing F2 at startup (could be different depending on manufacturer). Here are the instructions on setting to AHCI if its in RAID. Click the Start Button and type cmd Right-click the result and select Run as administrator Type this command and press ENTER: bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal (ALT: bcdedit /set safeboot minimal) Restart the computer and enter BIOS Setup Change the SATA Operation mode to AHCI from either IDE or RAID Save changes and exit Setup and Windows will automatically boot to Safe Mode. Right-click the Windows Start Menu once more. Choose Command Prompt (Admin). Type this command and press ENTER: bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot (ALT: bcdedit /deletevalue safeboot) Reboot once more and Windows will automatically start with AHCI drivers enabled. Hopefully this helps because it took me some time to figure out.

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.

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