Features:

  • Ultra-Fast PCIe NVMe Gen3x4 Interface
  • Sequential read/write speed up to 3500/3000 MB/s, *Performance may vary based on system hardware & configuration
  • Ideal for intense 3D animation, rendering, video and photo editing, and other intense applications
  • 5 year *Pie M. 2 2280 is not compatible with SATA M. 2 2280, Please check your system spec before purchasing
  • Interface: PCIe NVMe Gen3x4. Please check your motherboard manual and make sure your motherboard's M.2 slot supports PCIe NVMe or M Key with NVMe. This SSD is not compatible with Mac. Additional parts may be required to use on Mac system.
Pretty damn incredible regardless of price

Well, just look at the attached photo. 3500/3000 read/write as advertised (1TB model). At this price, how can anyone compete? We'll see how long it lasts, but this was a fantastic replacement for my high-end laptop's POS junk OEM "Lite-On 128GB nVME". Note that laptop benchmarks were lower; I put this in my desktop to get a maximum figure from CrystalDisk. I did stick the heat spreader on because, in my laptop, it has to make contact with a plate for heat dissipation, and I removed the OEM crappy silicone-feeling sticky 'thermal pad' and replaced it with AS5. Wondering if perhaps I should've done that on the inside of the ADATA plate too. FYI: this benchmarks much higher than the sister product, the Gammix S11, but ADATA just announced a 'Pro' version of that one too. We'll see how it is. For now, at this price (215 presently), you really can't beat it for a 1TB drive. Buy this one, not the S11 or XPG non-Pro.

Perfect - The fastest storage I have ever had.

Performs as expected highest rate above 3.0GBs No problem !!! Five stars!!! I see complains about the performance of the device in other reviews. The data transfer speed depends not only from the NVM device but from the rest of the system as well. Mainly from PCIe bus. There is some explanation for Gen.3x4 which determines the data transfer speed. Gen2 = 5gb\s (b-bits) Gen3 = 8gb\s The x1 x2 x3 x4 is the # of lanes used. 8gb\s x2 = 16gb\s 8gb\s x4 = 32gb\s 32gb\s gives you approximately 4GB. Make sure that the rest of the system(mainly PCIe bus) complies with Gen3x4. One more clue : The M.2_2 socket shares PCIe clock with PCIe x1_1. When PCIe x1_1 or PCIe x1_3 is occupied, the M.2_2 socket can only support SATA mode. This is true for ASUS Prime 470 Pro with Ryzen 5 2nd generation. I use it as a system/boot disk on Window 10 Pro machine.

Really good drive for the money

Got it during the flash sale, not bad for 53.50 performance is great regardless of the 1000-1200mbps write speed, but reading speed is normal 3000ish mbps but going from a mechanical hybrid drive to an NVMe it's mind blowing. to the other reviewer, yes it's not actually the represented speed in this listing... but you could have always gone to the manufacturer site or at least some review sites and double check the performance... realistically anything faster than SATA III is very fast, and the fun of these NVMe drives are the mad IOPs. so... at least I don't feel cheated... another thing you need to consider is random 4K reads.

Extremely fast NVMe , worth the small price increase over the standard 8200 NVMe

Have bought both the standard 8200 and 8200 Pro versions of these ADATA NVMe, loved using the standard version until I tried this Pro version...the small increase in read speed is nice...but the huge increase in write speed is awesome. Both the 8200 and 8200 Pro are fantastic , but with such a small increase in price...this Pro version is my new go to NVMe for both performance and price...you wont be disappointed.

Close to Evo Plus speeds for a lot less money.

I wanted a 1tb drive for my new build because games just keep getting bigger and bigger in file size. I looked at the Evo Plus and WD Black and decided they were too expensive for me... I had almost settled on a Crucial 1tb with lower speeds. Last year I built a HTPC with a SX6000 and was mostly happy with it, so I thought I better check out Adata again... and I'm glad I did. This drive is very fast, I tested right after installing Windows and then again after having quite a lot of games/programs installed... it ranks right up there with the Evo and Black drives for about $90 less currently. The heatsink they sent with this drive has the lettering in the correct orientation for a normal tower case (something that couldn't be said about the SX6000 even though it didn't matter in a HTPC case). Lastly, it runs really cool. I have bottom fed air intake in my case (In Win 303 MSI Dragon edition)... so there is a lot of air coming in right over the where the drive is mounted. Not sure how much of a difference it makes, I would assume temps are going to be similar in any decent case with front airflow. I've read an article where it basically says you don't need to add a heatsink and that these drives are meant to run warm... that cooling them will actually degrade them. Only time can tell in that regard but I wouldn't worry about adding a aftermarket heatsink. In summary.. Pros: Near advertised, top tier drive speed Very fast boot time Runs cool Cons: None, buy it.

THEY OONT COME MUCH FASTER AT THIS PRICE!

This drive is an amazing deal! I have the 1TB model and I paid $214. Once the price gets under $190 or so I'm going to buy three more. I paired this with an Asus quad NVME card, $60 or so on Amazon (with only one drive installed at the moment) and I installed several operating systems: macOS, Windows, Ubuntu. Everything happens at lightning speed, you can't even see your keystrokes anymore! It's incredible. Seriously though, it does 3GB/s. I tested it every which way I could. 1TB @ $214 doing 3GB/s in Dec2018 is where it's at. I clocked it doing over 3GB/s, but that's about where it tops out. Will buy more! Now when does 40Gb ethernet become affordable....

Amazing NVMe drive, SUPER competitive price!

This easily, hands down, has to be the most competitive pro NVMe on the market. I was initially looking at the ADATA XPG Gammix S11 because I wanted a heatsink on my NVMe drive just in case there was thermal throttling. I was also considering Samsung's 970 EVO and 960 Pro, in case they went on sale and could get great performance for cheaper. I stumbled upon this as a product preview and saw the performance figures and compared them to the Samsung drive and I was blown away. If I'm remembering correctly, the major difference between the Samsung drives is that they had a longer TB Written endurance. By no means is the ADATA one a bad endurance, its just less. While this is my first NVMe drive in a build for me (let alone my first PC built by me), I am super satisfied by this purchase. The price is super competitive and is an amazing drive. I would HIGHLY recommend people get this drive before it rises in price from demand. Edit: Attached are the CrystalDiskMark results based on this drive. I had already had several things installed on the drive, so that might impact the performance. Also, your motherboard chipset makes a big difference as well. I'm on an AMD B450 from MSI. From what I understand, X470 and B450 M.2 NVME drives connect directly to the CPU, while on certain Intel chipsets, they go through the chipset, which in turn throttles some of the performance. I'm still very impressed with the performance and will not be removing any stars.

Crazy fast, good value, make sure to check compatibility

Upgraded from a pretty cheap SSD which wasn't super fast or large. This M.2 SSD runs the NVMe protocol over PCIe 3.0 at x4 lanes. This is not a SATA M.2 drive. Not all motherboards provide M.2 NVMe SSD slots, make sure yours is compatible! Additionally, if you plan to install Windows (or any other OS for that matter) on this drive, check the manufacturers webpage or manual to validate whether or not it is capable of booting to an NVMe SSD in the first place. I installed this drive into my Biostar GT5 X370 Racing motherboard for AM4 with a Ryzen 2600. When loading into Windows still installed on my old drive, it was fine- detected right off the bat (you may need to open Disk Manager and initialize the disk before it shows in Explorer) and the speed at which it accepted and loaded files was amazing. My trouble came when trying to install Windows to it. At first I thought it would be a simple clone job, moving from one SSD to another- turns out, there are some BIOS settings that need to be changed. I spent nearly 3 days working through tutorials and guides trying to get this working, and I'm not sure what combination of them caused it to finally work, but what seems to finally make it successful was disabling secure boot and disabling CSM in the bios, then inserting a windows installation USB drive, deleting the partition on the drive and formatting it, and finally allowing the installer to create the required 4 partitions for GMT. I now have Windows successfully installed on the drive and it's amazing, really, if you don't have an SSD in your system you're missing it. I press the power button and as soon as the bios screen fades the desktop is already there. Applications load almost instantly, installations are lightning fast, this drive rivals the top of the line Samsung Evo and Pro SSD's in terms of speed, at half the cost. In highly recommend this to anyone looking to increase the performance of their system without breaking the bank.

Best High Performance Pro drive on the market today

This ADATA SX8200 Pro is The Best NVMe SSD on the market today. Competitors have slightly higher performance at high queue depth but what really matters is the Low queue depth performance for normal PC usage. This NVMe SSD has OUTSTANDING LOW QUEUE DEPTH PERFORMANCE, class leading today. You will feel this drive faster than the majority of drives on ths market today. This is the perfect NVMe SSD since it has no weaknesses. Amazing performance, very good endurance rating, 5 years warranty and good support from ADATA. It comes with a very stylish heatsink that during my testing did reduce the temperature by 11 degrees. Is really good and to me this is the Best NVMe on the market today.

Crazy fast SSD - Smokes the Evo 970

While this SSD is a little hard to find it is 100% a jewel worth looking for. Thankful Amazon had this in stock and shipped the same day. I am running this on a new X470 build with the Ryzen X2700. This replaced an Evo 970 500gb due to space. The 970 kept selling out so in my searching I found a few reviews and benchmarks on this drive. I am so happy I went this direction. Way to go ADATA!!!!!!

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