ADATA XPG S11/SX8200 Pro or Corsair MP510 (500GB)?

Ren McCourtey · 19 Dec 2019 at 16:57

Which is better? And what about the bitlocker thing, is it true it needs a support of ssd?

/edit: It's for ultrabook, from time to time I do some virtualization and look for performance but I do not care for extreme TBW.

Ren McCourtey · 19 Dec 2019 at 20:03

4K8KW10 said:
I would take the XPG S11 Pro.

Good. Why?

Ren McCourtey · 19 Dec 2019 at 20:48

4K8KW10 said:
Because I believe it's the better SSD:
https://www.eteknix.com/adata-xpg-gammix-s11-pro-1tb-m-2-nvme-ssd-review/5/

https://www.eteknix.com/corsair-force-mp510-960gb-nvme-m-2-ssd-review/5/

It's up to you to take the other one, for sure.

Well, I'm quite unbiased here, that's why I asked in a first place. Same price, mostly same performance, Corsair is a bit smaller but should be much more longer lasting...I'll carefully read those reviews you linked, thanks.

/edit> ok, I'll go for the XPG, as neither one offers eDrive/Bitlocker support, I'll obviously chose faster and slightly bigger drive with the same price tag. Thanks for sharing proper reviews.

Ren McCourtey · 22 Dec 2019 at 10:18

Hm, you're right, of course, but when you upgrade from M.2 SATA, the differences between those two are hard to notice all the way from down there. ;-)

I went for ADATA XPG per your advice as I said before and I am more than happy with it even though I hit about half the numbers I saw in tests. My guess? The Zenbook (UX430UN) I installed it into has 2 PCIe lanes in the slot instead of 4. It's the slot which was occupied by SATA M.2 drive for last two years, at the beginning I wasn't even sure the port is able to serve both SATA and NVMe devices (manufacturer even implies opposite) but it is. Only with slower speeds it seems. Still, in some tests I hit improvements in powers of ten over the original SATA drive, so yes, I am happy with that, thank you.