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Solid performance (pics show 33% capacity) @ great price

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2019

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.

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matlok

Does not include mounting hardware

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2018

It would have cost them less than a cent to include the screw and mounting bolt necessary to secure this to the motherboard. But they did not. So, upon receiving this item, and opening up my PC to install it, I realized that I didn't have the proper hardware to screw it in. It is not a standard PC screw.

My friend ordered an M.2 SSD made by Samsung and it came with the screw and mounting bolt. But I had to place another order for 1 tiny screw and wait several days for it to arrive.

If they're so cheap that they can't provide a screw that would cost them a tenth of a cent, what else did they cheap out on?

Also, the "heatspreader" seems useless. It is applied using a foamy, sticker-like adhesive. I can't imagine it helps lower the thermals. In fact, I'm pretty sure it would make it worse.

The drive itself is fine.

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Wee, Morsel and Bumble Bee

Solid performance (pics show 33% capacity) @ great price

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2019

Capacity: 240 GBVerified Purchase

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ReticenT

wow!

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2018

Capacity: 240 GBVerified Purchase

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!

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Taylor Allen

A major imrovement to my System

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2018

Capacity: 480 GBVerified Purchase

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.

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Apoorv Chincholkar

This thing just files!

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2018

Capacity: 240 GBVerified Purchase

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.

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Tyler

This easily installed in my ASUS Prime X470-Pro AM4 motherboard with ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2018

Capacity: 240 GBVerified Purchase

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.

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Janet C. Walker

Only had it for one month, so far so good.

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2019

Capacity: 960 GBVerified Purchase

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".

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Joe

Over 4x faster than my WD SATA SSD.

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2018

Capacity: 960 GBVerified Purchase

I have been wanting to add more SSD storage to my machine so that I could move some of my VR titles off the HDD. I scooped this up on a lightning deal and I couldn't be more pleased. The performance is 1 step down from the fastest SSDs out there, coming in at 3200m read opposed to 3800m, but at this price point it is absolutely the best bang for your buck. Speed tests come in right at 3200mb/s for read and 1800 mb/s write. My old SATA WD was 500mb/s R/W.
Easy to install and image.

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Daddio Dave

Great SSD for your main C drive

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2018

Capacity: 960 GBVerified Purchase

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.

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Brian

Some difficulties, but it worked fine.

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2018

Capacity: 240 GBVerified Purchase

The box as delivered by Amazon does not contain a UPC code so it make me wonder whether this is a gray market product. Without a UPC code I cannot register the product and without registering I cannot find a way to contact support. The Adata website contains no simple contact us option.
When I try a firmware update, I get a message that it cannot be done in IDE or Raid mode. I am in AHCI mode as I am replacing a Samsung EVO 850 that is in AHCI mode and I confirmed this via BIOS. And I cant' contact support! The website offers no options to update Firmware. There is no download option.
The cloning software is very old version of Acronis which failed. I struggled to make the clone bootable.
I installed in my ASUS Z170-A and it seems to be working, but the benchmarks do not approach rated speed.
I saw stellar reviews on this product and went with it instead of the Samsung EVO 970 which was $27 more expensive.
BTW: Why all these reviews about a different product? The product is M2 NVMe product not Sata.

Update: To be fair and objective I upgraded the rating. The UPC code on the box is covered by an Amazon label. Not sure why they do that and it is hard to remove. Secondly I managed to open a ticket and they responded with a Tech Support phone number. I got a tech on the line who was helpful. That number is 714-332-8735 or 714-332-8736. Their SSD Toolbox gives an error when trying to upgrade firmware. He said they have not updated the toolbox for the new product which should have been done when they released it. I was a little disappointed in the benchmark numbers I got, but everybody's PC is different. I did get it installed with difficulty due to cloning issues from one SSD to another. I could not get it to boot but probably not an issue specific to Adata. Getting their Acronis cloning software was not straight forward. I did get it work eventually using Diskpart and it seems fine. At $80, it was a great price.

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dfgdsfdsgbdf

So far so good.

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2019

Capacity: 960 GBVerified Purchase

Getting what I paid for according to CrystalDiskMark.
You will see a dramatic increase over the hard drive in the now infamous Anthem(I still think it's decent). You won't see a huge jump over SSDs in gaming load times but in areas like Game Installations and Workloads NVME setup as PCIE will drastically improve the experience.

Cons: This might be true of all M.2 drives. IF YOU WANT TO MAKE IT A BOOT DRIVE PREPARE TO WORK. The other issue is the software stinks.(you don't need any software to get it to run. Just plug it in and set it up in the Disk Manager). You get bad temperature readings and such. I dunno what they did but it has also led to inaccurate reading in HWINFO as well. The only way to accurately see your temp is to use CrystalDiskInfo(I swear I don't work for them lol). The Software that comes with the M.2(and HWINFO as a result) reads my M.2 temperature as(and I am not making this up) -273c degrees LOL. Asus makes decent boards and I am using the M.2 Heatsink but c'mon lol.

Luckily, the CrystalDiskInfo somehow has an accurate temperature 23c idle and 33c load.
I will probably still buy another at some point because I have 1 more M.2 Slot. Gonna see how this one does 1st. It's fairly close to the top Samsung's but at a price mere mortals can afford to pay.

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