The Best Money Can Buy

4K8KW10 · 19 Jun 2018 at 10:23

The price for the model with 480GB is mere €130.

Review of ADATA SX8200 480 GB

Outstanding performance
Even more impressive synthetic results
Very affordable
Large SLC write buffer
Heatsink included
5-year warranty

Specifications: ADATA SX8200 480 GB
Brand: ADATA
Model: ASX8200NP-480GT-C
Controller: Silicon Motion SM2262
Flash: Micron, 16 nm 3D TLC
ADATA 60077107
Endurance: 320 TB total bytes written
Form Factor: M.2 2280
Capacity: 480 GB (447.1 GB usable)
32 GB additional overprovisioning
Interface: PCIe Gen 3 x4, NVMe 1.3
Device ID: ADATA SX8200NP
Firmware: SVN105
Warranty: 5 years

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David Bisset · 19 Jun 2018 at 12:16

Looks pretty good

bledd · 19 Jun 2018 at 18:26

Why no new Samsung drives in the comparison

mattyfez · 19 Jun 2018 at 19:52

It's not setting the world on fire though is it,
about 1 second faster loading windows and about 1 second faster loading a game level than a Samsung 850 evo.. Around 17-18 seconds..

mattyfez · 19 Jun 2018 at 21:13

That said it's cheap though for a 480gb drive, so if it's fast then it could be a winner, no point upgrading to it but for building a new system..

4K8KW10 · 20 Jun 2018 at 09:34

bledd said:
Why no new Samsung drives in the comparison

Maybe Samsung doesn't support them with any drives and they have to buy...

The Samsung drives won't perform better.

We see the drive run at full write speed until 128 GB have been written before performance drops to around 350 MB/s. An SLC buffer size of 128 GB is much bigger than the 16 or 32 GB that we're typically seeing on other drives. With such a big buffer, it's highly unlikely that you'll ever encounter the write performance drops to 350 MB/s.

lltfdaniel · 30 Jun 2018 at 10:14

Thanks for putting the ADATA on the radar because i most likely will be buying the 1TB variant of this due to bang for your money.

Eternalec · 2 Jul 2018 at 12:17

Well, that looks impressive considering the cost.

4K8KW10 · 2 Jul 2018 at 21:12

Yup. This is like having a 450GB RAM disc/drive for your bootable subsystem.
DDR400 has memory bandwidth of 3200MB/s.

It is crazy and awesome

lltfdaniel · 3 Jul 2018 at 16:03

4K8KW10 said:
Yup. This is like having a 450GB RAM disc/drive for your bootable subsystem.
DDR400 has memory bandwidth of 3200MB/s.

It is crazy and awesome

I agree.

AMDPower · 11 Jul 2018 at 05:07

trying to decide between

1TB Adata SX8200
1TB samsung 970 evo
1 TB WD BLACK 2280 NVME

the other two are £60-£70 more than the Adata SX 8200 but are also faster, so it it worth me paying the extra?

I want a company with good warranty and I know Wester Digital all excellent in that regards and is the fastest of the lot even faster than the samsung 970 pro.

so what would you go for and why?

4K8KW10 · 11 Jul 2018 at 13:20

I would for the ADATA and buy another goodie / other goodies with the remaining cash.
For £60-£70 you can buy a new motherboard, another hard drive, or something else that is more expensive by the same amount.