Review on Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB NVMe SSD with 3D NAND, Gen3x4 PCIe M.2 2280, R/W 3500/3000MB/s (ASX8200PNP-1TT-C) by Justin Pavelko

Just look at the attached photo. 3500/3000 read/writes as advertised (1TB model). How can anyone compete at this price? We'll see how long this lasts, but it was a fantastic replacement for the POS junk on my high-end Lite-On 128GB nVME laptop. Please note the laptop benchmarks were below; I put this on my desktop to get the maximum amount of CrystalDisk. I put on a heat spreader because it needs to make contact with the heatsink plate in my laptop and I removed the crappy OEM silicone which is sticky to the touch. Thermal pad" and replaced with AS5. I wonder if I should have done that on the inside of the ADATA board as well. FYI: Those numbers are much higher than its sister product, the Gammix S11, but ADATA just released a pro- Version announced for this device. Let's see how things are. At this point, at this price (215 now) it really can't be beat for a 1TB drive. Buy this one, not S11 or XPG non-Pro. Update: When prices dropped I bought a second SX8200 Pro 1TB for my desktop and couldn't be happier. And at the time of writing this it even comes with a coupon. Incredible value. Now there are people saying that these synthetic benchmarks do not reflect real world performance IF you are using these drives for large file storage This is how higher density (3D/QLC/etc) NAND flash works - it is slower and gets a lot from a small amount faster cac he supported with lower density, which is running out. But that's why people who need massive storage space still buy multiple 3TB+ mechanical hard drives, right? Very few people reading this are probably trying to move terabytes of ISO or raw video files with their nVME drives on a daily basis (unless you're doing it for work, in which case money isn't an issue and you probably have a corporate NAS ) - You'll probably use it as a gaming and operating system drive, for which it's perfect: a few hundreds/thousands of tiny files are read in random order to load Battlefield, Overwatch or Windows, rarely written in hard order for gigabytes by gigabytes , except for a one-time installation. In other words, it's the perfect drive for a game/OS, not a big video/memory cache.