Adata SX8200 Pro concerns

[Perfect_Chaos]

I've been interested in the drive from Adata literally just released. It uses the sm2262en controller. I was checking google and came across this article https://www.anandtech.com/show/13131/the-silicon-motion-sm2262en-ssd-controller-preview

It's an engineering sample. But performance drops off a lot when the drive becomes more full, nobody seems to know what point the performance drops off. It appears to be at least by the 80% full mark though. I had already placed an order for the 1TB version before seeing those numbers.

I got in touch with the seller and explained my concerns etc, i was offered to either keep the drive as long as i run a few tests and share the results with them, plus 50% refund. Or send the drive back for a full refund.

So send it back, or keep for roughly 90 odd quid.. good price, but not sure it's worth it? Hard to believe that they would release a new SSD that has worse performance than the previous one.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

Seen this many times with SSD's, its is a reason why the range on OcUK is somewhat small and is also why we tend to only stick with the bigger brand names to try and avoid this, though of course sometimes you can get an absolute gem of a product from a smaller company and typically Adata are quite good.

Still for SSD I a firm believe Samsung will always be number one, they have put huge R&D into performance particular on long term performance and keeping performance at top levels. Its why our PCI-E range is quite small with the main focus been Samsung 970 EVO and Pro models, we also stock the Intel 760P which seem very good and the Intel 660P which are also OK.

Yeah i still have a 512GB Samsung 840 Pro, it has been running well since I've had it. With ADATA it's baffling how a new drive can actually perform worse than their previous version though.

Ask yourself this, is a 750gb ssd worth 90 quid? If you’re happy with not maxing out the drive then go for it.

Still don't know how full the drive will be when performance drops off though. 90 quid is decent i suppose and puts it in line roughly with the MX500, I haven't decided what to do with it yet and it still hasn't arrived, i may just return it and go with another Samsung, maybe when they release newer drives as I'm not in a hurry anyway really.