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

excellent ssd but no screw in packing )))

This review is for the 1TB drive. This is important to note, because most of the negative reviews are from people who dont understand how these things work, or how they are listed on Amazon. That being said, lets move on. Installed this into a new build system, on a B450 Gaming Plus Max board, with a Ryzen 3600 chip. Drive came with the m.2 screw to properly mount to the motherboard. Installed Windows to the drive via USB, and the motherboard automatically selected it as the boot drive once that was done. I want to say that again. The drive 100% works as a boot drive, and once Windows is installed, any decent motherboard will automatically select it as the boot drive. Speeds are essentially as advertised on the read side, and about 10% better than advertised on the write side. In addition, it stays quite cool. Drive did not exceed 48c during testing via CrystalDiskMark. It DOES include a very thin heat spreader, which I did put on the drive. Not sure what impact it has, but hey, every degree matters! Currently idling at 36c.

Of course its good stuff, great manufacture and Amazon is good too.

Much ado has been made about ADATAs practice of swapping out the controller and not advertising it. Indeed, even on this Amazon listing, whether you get the one that can write at 3GB/s or--like I did--the one that writes at half that, is basically a crapshoot. However, they STILL offer the best PCIe 3.0 read speeds for the price, which for gaming is far more important than write speeds. I bought one of these about a year ago, with the old controller, which then mysteriously died recently. There arent too many reports of this--probably I just got a lemon. I monitored its temperature regularly, and it spent most of its time between 40 and 50 C, sometimes going over 60 when installing a game or some other multi-gigabyte write operation, which are generally short lived thanks to its speed. Still, one day, I randomly crashed in the middle of a game and...couldnt reboot. The BIOS warned of a faulty disk, but I couldnt believe it--I hadnt come anywhere near its TBW or the warranty period! Once I accepted that the BIOS was right, I started an RMA with ADATA and bought a replacement to tide me over in the meantime--who knows how long the RMA will take! Now, why didnt I get a different brand, knowing about ADATAs recent shadyness, you may ask? Well, like I said--the competition at this capacity is a good 20% more expensive, at least! Even more so for the Samsung 970 Evo/ Evo Plus! Also, the read speeds arent affected by the different controller, at least not enough for my gaming needs, so despite everything, it STILL wins. Now, is that still the case at todays prices? Im not so sure--~$100 for 1TiB is a great deal, but I think Id opt for 512GiB at todays prices, in which case the competition isnt too far out of reach. 20-30% translates to $10-20, instead of $30-40. $10-20 to not deal with ADATA? Maybe. $30-40? Eh, I guess they still make a good enough product. Plus, my experience with their RMA process hasnt given me any additional confidence. RMA processes are notoriously painful, but ADATAs website, at the time of writing, is basically non-functional for RMAs. I started multiple cases and got case numbers, but never got an e-mail about them, nor would they show up in their buried lookup tool. I eventually called their US number, at which some clueless dude thought that my e-mail alias for the RMA with adata in it constituted some sort of trademark infringement (it doesnt; thats not how that works!), but did actually send the paperwork over. Ill update if that goes poorly, but otherwise, you can assume that my drive was eventually replaced after some number of weeks, costing me just the price of shipping the dead drive to their US location. While the SX8200, crappy controller or otherwise, is still great bang-for-buck for gamers in my view, I consider ADATA to be on thin ice. Between the false advertising and the difficult-to-get-going RMA process, if this replacement drive also fails after a year, Id rather pony up the $40 just to deal with someone else. -1 star for the write perf lottery. -1 star for actively difficult RMA process. Know what youre buying, and expect an adversarial relationship with ADATA if anything goes wrong. UPDATE: Well, I guess I didnt imagine the possibility that USPS would lose the package. So, no opinion on ADATAs RMA per se--its a pain to get to, but what buggered me this time was...the mail. =/ I didnt buy insurance, either, but, uh, I recommend it, if you ever RMA. $13 seems worth not having to worry about this case. UPDATE 2022.02.21: So, the mail found my package about a month after I shipped it, and got it finally made it to ADATA, who promptly sent me a replacement unit that arrived safe and sound. So, at least on that end, the RMA process was smooth! I think at this point, my rating still stands--the RMA process on ADATAs end was a pain and the controller lottery unforgivable, but at least you wont necessarily be shopping elsewhere! Still, if I total up even what I might get if I resell my replacement drive, the amount for postage insurance if I had bought it, and so forth, the difference between the price of this drive and that of some of its competitors narrows sharply. I think I wouldve rather bought e.g .a Samsung and not had the pain. =/ Still, though my situation is unusual, you may still want to factor in the possibility of needing an RMA into your decision. I still think this is a fine drive for gaming, but its become clear where ADATA gets that low price of theirs.

I replaced my prior Intel NVME drive from 3 years ago with this one. I still use Windows 7 and had to install two Microsoft hotfixes to get my computer to recognize the drive. After that I cloned the old drive to this one and it appears to be working fine and feels faster. My Crystal Disk speed numbers of 3,325/2947 (read/write) are right in line with the Adata claim of 3,500/3,300. Buyers need to remember that speed results are highly dependent on specific hardware setup, which NVME storage controller is used and which Windows version you have. The one drawback I can point to is that Adatas SSD toolbox is very limited under Windows 7 and they have no plans to fix it. The main problem is SMART data not being reported and the temperature reading is totally incorrect. I was used to Samsungs toolbox which is very refined so by comparison Adatas toolbox is second rate. I took one star off for this deficiency. In this purchase I chose Adatas lower cost over Samsungs reputation and software because performance for this ssd is quite similar to that of the Samsung 970 Pro. Adatas XPG SX8200 Pro is very new so time will tell if I made the right choice to save some money.

I bought this to upgrade an HP EliteDesk 800 G2 small form factor desktop, with an I7 6700. Obviously, not a gaming machine. I wanted something a little larger and a little faster than the 256 gig SSD it came with. Im very happy with my purchase. Ive bought dozens of Adata drives and never had a problem. My motherboard does not have an NVME slot. So, I bought the $8 adapter in the pic. amazon.com/gp/product/B07VYWR91T/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The adapter board was shipped, attached to the larger of the two brackets it was supplied with. I removed the bracket, installed the new drive, then attached the board to the low profile bracket. When I installed the board and powered up, bios and Windows 10 recognized the new drive immediately. I cloned the SSD to the new drive using the free version of Aomei Backupper. I find it less troublesome than other software. Afterward, powered down, removed the old drive and was up and running. All of this in a matter of minutes. I ran Crystal Disk Mark and the pic shows the results. Not bad. Im running the cpu, with turbo boost disabled, because it runs too hot when using video editing software. To see if read and write scores would improve, I enabled turbo boost. I got slightly lower scores. I dont know why. I dont really care either. Im happy.

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.

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.

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.

One of the best deals you can get in terms of price for speeds. Its great for gaming in terms of loading times even though most games dont fully take advantage of its speed yet. A couple notes: 1) You may not get full speed if your motherboard doesnt support it. Moreover, the slot you put it in (many motherboards have 2) can make a difference. Check your motherboard manual to be sure. And despite my manual saying both slots were identical, the upper one beside the CPU provided the best performance shown in the screenshot. The lower slot only got up to 2500. (Asus Tuf Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi). I suspect the faster slot is usually going to be the CPU-adjacent one. 2) These drives can get hot. I suggest at least getting a little heatsink (theyre like $10 on Amazon) if your motherboard doesnt include a good one. Also pay attention that the location of the drive gets some airflow.