ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro NVME M2

michty_me · 8 May 2019 at 14:32

Is anyone using one of these drives?
I've recently found them on offer but wondering if they are any good before making a purchase.

michty_me · 8 May 2019 at 20:42

Anyone?
Worth a purchase at £150 delivered for the 1TB?
£60 cheaper than the Samsung equivalent but seems to match it's performance and still has a 5 year warranty.

michty_me · 8 May 2019 at 21:23

Ah so it is and a bit cheaper too.
Thanks for pointing me at the Corsair, I'll go and check it out this evening.

michty_me · 8 May 2019 at 21:34

ketma said:
I have this drive in my system, excellent speed and a decent price....check out the reviews, you'll see there are all in similar margins of performance.

That's good to hear. I just spotted this drive online and it looked fairly impressive for the price. I didn't realise there were a couple of decent speed drives at this price point now so it kind of surprised me.

michty_me · 8 May 2019 at 22:19

Thanks Tamzzy. The Corsair certainly seems to be more up to the job on paper anyway!! I see places are selling the MP510 for £140 now so I think I may go for that tomorrow.

michty_me · 8 May 2019 at 22:34

Great, cheers for pointing that out. Appreciate it!

michty_me · 24 May 2019 at 23:49

@tamzzy
Just managed to order the 1TB MP510 drive for a smidge under £120 so that will do me nicely. Thanks for the help.

michty_me · 25 May 2019 at 14:02

So what about the bench marks posted above showing that it is better?
Will there be a noticeable difference between the two in the real world?

michty_me · 5 Jun 2019 at 02:45

tamzzy said:
just scrolled through and noticed you got incorrect info again.
those tests that 4k8kw10 posted are correct, but twisted out of context.
what's more important are the simulated real life tests that anandtech does. ie their "destroyer", "heavy" and "light" workloads.
light tests are most indicative of the usual desktop loads that 99.9% people will run.
you can see the graphs from their website so i won't bother posting here again. except this quote:

basically with the adata sx8200, with a full (or full-ish) drive...it becomes as slow as (or even slower than) a sata3 ssd...lol
good way to spend money. not.

I see, That's good to know and thank you for clearing that up. Its a bit clearer now I've looked at everything again using your explanation.

michty_me · 6 Jun 2019 at 15:32

To be fair, I think in the real world would we even notice a difference between the two running at optimum speed? Depending on the use case I suppose.

michty_me · 6 Jun 2019 at 16:07

I reckon for my use case I would have not noticed any difference if I just went for another 1TB mx500 for my system drive. Ah well, live and learn I guess.

michty_me · 6 Jun 2019 at 16:59

Yes, looking at the prices just now compared to what I got the mp510 for, £10 difference

michty_me · 6 Jun 2019 at 22:02

Yup, It was good to see someone actually performing a test like what you done. It will certainly benefit others looking into buying that drive.

michty_me · 31 Aug 2019 at 17:11

Well, Just seen that the Samsung 970 Evo 1TB M2 NVME has dropped to £149 so just bought it as well.

michty_me · 31 Aug 2019 at 17:23

tamzzy said:
Very nice price

No idea what I'm going to do with it but the price seemed pretty good not to buy

michty_me · 31 Aug 2019 at 17:46

@tamzzy Not a bad shout actually!!
I've currently got sitting a 1TB NVME MP510, This 970 Evo and a 2TB MX500 drive.

My initial plan was to have the 1TB MP510 as a boot drive and the 2TB MX500 as a data drive.
I might use the two nvme drives in my main desktop system then just use the 2TB mx500 in my gaming laptop as I've been on the hunt for a half decent 1TB SSD to replace the slow mechanical data drive that came with it.