ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro

Welcome back everybody to the Techiesetup channel as today we're reviewing the Adata SSD, the XPG S6-8200 Pro. This M2 NVMe SSD is one of the fastest ...

Other than that, there's only good things I have to report back about my specific sample of the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro SSD.

And I'll be honest, this drive is really, really good. I really, really like it. And this is a review

Wee! And you have one of the new drives. Yeah. So, does it matter?

- **PCH: Hynix 3dv5-96L TLC:** [February 2021, empty drive](https://i.imgur.com/COyGTKz.jpg) / [Second benchmark to verify that it really IS that slow](https://i.imgur.com/59oZMJw.jpg). - Summary: ADATA SX8200 Pro is using very slow flash memory now, from a low quality manufacturer (SK Hynix is nowhere near the quality of Intel/Micron or Samsung). What are people's thoughts? I'm thinking of bypassing my store and contacting ADATA directly to get a unit with Samsung or Intel/Micron flash.

Much ado has been made about ADATA's practice of swapping out the controller and not advertising it. Indeed, even on this Amazon listing, whether you get the one that can write at 3GB/s or--like I did--the one that writes at half that, is basically a crapshoot. However, they STILL offer the best PCI...

Just an FYI, the Adata SX8200 Pro which is two tiers higher (consumer) has been going on sale for $99 recently.

Can't recommend it. I grabbed the 500GB version based on nice reviews from Tom's Hardware, PC World and a few other go to sites. The generic crystal benchmarks are on par with the website specs showing 3000Mbps+ reads and 2200Mbps+ writes - note that they always advertise max writes based on the 1TB...

it's one of the best sata ssds but in the end its still much slower than most nvme drives that get around this price, such as the wd sn550 or those recent sales on the xpg sx8200 pro. QLC nvme drives will generally be faster than the mx500 in typical use cases but much slower for large file transfers that exhaust the cache on the QLC drives (at which point theyre as slow as a hard drive).

For the recent sale price of a buck eighteen for 1TB, this is a fantastic value vs the Samsung EVO970 1TB storage. However, the Samsung EVO970 is better overall. For just a few bucks more regular price get the Samsung EVO970.

Speed:

Large sequential reads and writes are roughly on par. EVO970 + on ...