XPG SX8200 480GB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (ASX8200NP-480GT-C)

don't be fooled by the price...this thing packs a punch! windows 10 installed flawlessly. programs open instantly. im seriously at my desktop in 6 seconds from pressing power. this is the best deal on an nvme drive out there. I would purchase this again in a heartbeat. read and write speeds are near 3000/1100 for my 240gb version. the heatsink helps with the heat issues ive had with other brand drives. my temps are running idle at 26c and I never seen it get above 40 and that was while doing a 22gb file transfer which took only a few seconds. this is installed beside my pcix slot under my gtx 1080 so heat was a concern with other drives but not this one! ive edited this review to add a picture that shows the temp of this drive at idle speeds, with my desktop being powered on for several hours. im simply amazed by this drive.... if you are looking for a super fast nvme drive that runs cool, you cant go wrong with this one!

I don't use any of the benchmark software like most people, but the pictures from other reviews will tell you just how fast this thing is. I was able to create a copy of a 5Gb video in about 5 seconds and that's about all it takes for my computer to boot up as well. It was a slight pain getting my old drive cloned onto this one though. It comes with a free product activation code for Acronis True Image 2015, but ironically, that version of the software doesn't work with M.2 drives. So I'd recommend using the free version of EaseUS to make your life easier.Going back to the drive though, this thing is fast. A fantastic value for amazing performance.

I did a new computer build since I was having some problems with my 10 year old desktop. I used this ADATA NVMe 1 GB solid state drive as my main C drive in my new motherboard, a GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS GAMING 7-OP with i7-8700k processor. It has performed flawlessly. I haven't run any specs on it but qualitatively it seems really fast, as expected. It installed without any problems and fit the M.2 slot perfectly. If I had to do it over again, I'd buy this same SSD.UPDATE 10/20/19 - 10 months out and this SSD is still working great.

I was thinking of getting a Samsung 970EVO, but went with this one because of much lower price, and due to good personal experience of using ADATA products in past.As per crystal disk mark I am getting exactly same read/write speeds on R5 2600 + B450 Tomahawk. I didn't have to install any particular driver to achieve the advertised speed.Windows 10 boot time is now just 4-5 seconds (including MB POST time). I did copy a 50GB game installer to this drive and installed the game in this same drive to test the speed. To my amazement everything was finished in 5-6 minutes!Big thumbs up to the ADATA for the blazing fast and affordable XPG8200.

UPDATE: Still working fine over 1.5 years later. I have not had any issues with the drive slowing over time. It's possible the reviewer that did had filled the drive to near capacity, as I know ssd's need some free space to function properly (as much as 20% in some cases). I have posted screenshots of the crystaldisk benchmark results side by side with no significant changes. I upgraded to a Ryzen 5 3600, which may explain the slight increase in speed in some of the tests. I also posted the smart drive info. After 1.5 years as an OS drive on a gaming computer it still has 87% life left.This easily installed in my ASUS Prime X470-Pro AM4 motherboard with Ryzen 5 2600 processor. It benchmarks very well in CrystalDiskMark. The heatsink on my motherboard keeps it under 45 degrees C while running benchmarks even. I took off a star because I was unable to download the Acronis software. I was able to find the correct serial number and register on the website, but the download was only going at a few kilobytes per second and would eventually crash. I ended up just re-installing windows and copying over the files I needed instead of cloning the drive from my old SSD. I also was not too impressed with their toolbox software. It couldn't even read the current firmware version, let alone update it. I doubt there is any new firmware yet though, since its still a new product. Adata definitely needs to work on their website and software.I have had this for about a month now with zero hardware problems since installation. Windows definitely boots more quickly than it did from my older ssd. I also like that there are no cables to deal with and it takes up very little space.

I installed this so I could get faster response on my game drive. It works. Also got it on sale with one of those 12 days of Christmas. I have not been able to get this to boot, so I use the Sandisk SSD for that, it is no laggard either, boots faster than I can type my pin. Anything on this A: drive is blazingly fast.UserBenchmarks: Game 129%, Desk 164%, Work 139%CPU: Intel Core i7-8700 - 106.9%GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 - 136.9%SSD: Adata XPG SX8200 NVMe PCIe M.2 960GB - 349.5%SSD: SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB - 110.8%HDD: Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB - 97.7%RAM: Unknown DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GB - 81.3%MBD: MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48)date = 12/23/18 // This is a paste of my User Benchmark, look at the result for Adata. Impressive as all "get out".

The media could not be loaded.  I have it filled at roughly 33% for a game drive only. I'm also using an M.2 heatsink which keeps the temperatures under 35 degrees in a well ventilated case (bequiet w/3 140mm case fans).I'm concerned with temperatures for long term usage. Without the aftermarket heatsink, the temperatures were bad, easily spiking up to 50-70 degrees w/large file transfers.Lastly, as you can see with my pictures, even with 33% being used, it maintains really good performance. Note that I'm using Crystal Disk Mark v7 beta5, so not exactly apples-to-apples with their older benches.

Lo instale en una hp omen 15ce y funciono correctamente, disminuyendo el tiempo que tomaba en el arranqué del sistema y las aplicaciones.

Whether you call it NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) SSD or PCI Express (3.0 x4 ) SSD, it is all the same.This ADATA SX8200 NVMe SSD has a great performance a little less but similar to Samsung 970 EVO NVMe SSD but for much less money. It is much faster than a regular SSD especially if you use it as a boot drive ( I wouldn't recommend it otherwise, not as a backup drive anyway) and it also has a 5 year warranty.But keep in mind that you need a motherboard that can support NVMe ( most recent motherboards do) in other words that it has a M.2 slot that supports not only regular SATA SSD but a M.2 slot that supports NVMe SSD. To also take advantage of the full NVMe SSD speed, you need to install it in the M.2 slot that has the 4 lane PCIe Express (3.0 x4) as per the instructions manual of your specific motherboard. Otherwise it may only run at half the speed if placed in another m.2 slot. Also make sure you can boot from it in the Bios with NVMe.Even if you do not have a M.2 slot you may be able to use a M.2 NVMe to PCIe 3.0 x4 adapter card to install the NVMe drive on it. But keep in mind that most older mainstream BIOSes do not support booting from NVMe and most likely, never will.Other important fact is that if you use it on a Windows system, make sure the operating system supports the NVMe drivers for it to be recognized during the installation process. I know for a fact that Windows 10 does support it automatically but Windows 7 doesn't.But there is always a way...This section concerns installation on Windows 7 onlyI was finally successful installing my Adata SX8200 NVMe SSD on my Windows 7 system but I had a hard time even though I knew it would be a challenge. Since Windows 7 is an older system ( but still supported until 2020 by Microsoft) it did not have the NVMe support since it is a newer technology. If you insist on installing it on Windows 7 for any reason, you will have to inject the NVMe drivers into your Windows 7 Installer USB before you can install Windows 7 on your NVMe SSD (make sure you get the most recent version on the Microsoft website since it has USB 3.0 support as well on it, unless already know you do have it. Also If you can't download it because you do not have your product key handy, there is a legitimate tool called HEIDOC that can do this download for you but keep in mind you will still need a Windows 7 product key to activate your copy of Windows within 30 days. There are 2 legitimate website where you can buy it for cheap on SCDKey.com and on Kinguin.net. They even offer a protection for a few dollars more in case you're worried your product key wouldn't work for any reason).As for power users out there !!! There are a few good YouTube videos and web sites that shows you step by step on how to integrate the NVMe drivers through the Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) using the CMD (command prompt) using the DISM command line into install.wim but even if you follow the steps it may not work since you have to know which index (of the 4 indexes) represents the Windows 7 version you are installing (ex. : Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Home, etc...) to mount the Windows 7 NVME drivers. Of course there is command line for this also... :dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile: c:\sources\install.wim(where " c:\sources\install.wim " is an example of the location of your install.wim location on you computer)Since I didn't know at the beginning that there was multiple index on the install.wim that I got from my Windows 7 Installation USB drive I did not verify it so the DISM commands all worked but did not apply on my specific Windows 7 index version unfortunately.I did not want to get through the whole process again, so I decided to use a much simpler method using a tool from Gigabyte on their website called " Gigabyte USB tool". By the way it seems to work on other motherboard brands because it worked on my Asrock motherboard. To find the tool search for "Gigabyte USB tool" in Google and select the link on Gigabyte.com then go down the list and search for "Windows USB installation Tool" to download it, install it and follow the instructions from the video I mention on the next section. --- Whether you use the DISM command line and include the /recurse option( to include the sub- folders within the location of your drivers) or the following method please consider using a 16 GO USB drive since 8 GO may not be enough space while adding the additional drivers to your Windows 7 installer USB key.I strongly suggest you to watch a video on YouTube called "Installing Windows 7 on Kaby Lake, Skylake, Coffee Lake and NVME - LIVE" from Carey Holzman who explain it very well. He even explains how to get the updates on Windows 7 for recent computer systems for Kaby Lake and more recent ones on Intel platform and also for Ryzen on AMD plarform... there is a specific patch called Wufuc by Zeffy on github website. That worked for me !Hope that was helpful !

Absolutely stunning. Didn't install with the heatsinks and removed the paper runs low temps. My pc now boots in like 5 secs on UEFI boot. Plan on using this for a long time cut off about 14 seconds from my ssd boot.. so I usually turn on / off my computer like 4-5x a day so that's 70 seconds saved a day.. x365 that's like 7 hours saved a year lol. That's just boot time alone! Assuming it holds its speeds. I bought 1 terabyte and put everything on it, my boot, pagefile and games. You got a 5 year warranty if anything happens so get your money's worth !

Initially had a little bit of challenge due to not following instructions on how to setup StoreMI. But once setup, it has been very fast. Transfers are very fast and pc has been very stable. The product physically is high quality as well. Price is just right. Recommended.

This product is great for its price! Other NVMe M.2 Drives such as Samsung 970 Evo 500GB and WD Black 500GB cost for around ₹16000 and ₹14000 respectively. These are the wholesale prices that I came across while a searched for a new SSD. At ₹11500, this is an absolute steal. With rated R/W speeds of 3200/1700 though marginally slower in read speed as compared to the other two, it doesn't really matter much in practical situations. The drive has 5 year warranty, so it is assured that it is a good quality NVMe drive. You cannot get any cheaper if you want a fast NVMe drive for your PC. Go for it!