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Review on πŸ’₯ XPG SPECTRIX S20G 500GB RGB PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe 1.3 M.2 2280 Internal SSD - Lightning Fast Speeds of 2500/1800MB/s by Christian Poojary

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Overheating issues and cloning issues (3/3 devices have issues)

Update 3: so I ordered 2 devices (1 for me and one for someone else) my module (module 1) was basically not working and causing level cloning a short circuit which messed up my pc a bit and i was sent block 3 for a replacement, block 2 still works so i bought my block hoping to give my pc a little boost before the holidays, so far it has been one bad experience on 2 and mixed bad and normal on the last one. Device 1 burned out (caused motherboard/RAM issues after shorting itself out had to reapply profile) and now device 3 (spare) had multiple failed clones and errors on clones, After more than 7 attempts in a few hours, 1 seemed to work (there were problems with applications), but for a while it started to work. At this point, I noticed performance lags and FPS drops, as well as a lot of unexpected issues (weird). stats3200 R/1800W -960 evoso now i'm confused and found that it's a bit warmer than evo, i did a test with the fans off to see the heating and immediately noticed that they behave completely differently, evo stays at normal room temperature (no) . heatsink) this xpg gets up to 85c (wow) and it has a heatsink ready to go right out of the box. I then left it on for a while and noticed that the R/W on the bench got worse for it (thermal throttling I'm sure), when the case fans were activated again. whose case volume update rate is about 20 times per second, it returned to the previous R / W. As a side note this has a heat issue and a slower R/W than advertised so I spoke to support and they got me the return process and return label (Amazon has great customer service and returns) so please note the stats shown differ from both the IRL and the heater. I would recommend if you use temp monitoring and run a different heatsink or fan system. It's quick to update your case's air volume pretty quickly. I still have disk #2 from my original purchase, disk #2, with which I made a new build and cloned Windows 10 OS on it. This device had 2 failed clones (a bunch of bugs). and the 3rd attempt resulted in a successful clone which has worked since install so far (I'm afraid to touch it honestly at this point) it's a completely different machine again and the new build took 3 units lots of crashes and oddities, and a new unit works lower in R/W but for now I'm not surprised, so far this type of drive seems to have problems with Win 10 cloning and its R/W is below the advertised rating in Gen 3x4 m2 nvmean older nvme surpasses it in this one moment, and it's a bit sad as I had high hopes for it. I am not suprised, that they have sales and coupons and 3/3 have some problems. I'm just glad this one doesn't fail like my other two. I'll report on any progress but from the looks of it I've upped 1->2 stars since 1 device finally

Pros
  • Internal SSDs
Cons
  • Expensive