The Best Money Can Buy

[4K8KW10]

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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[4K8KW10]

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.

 

[4K8KW10]

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

 

[4K8KW10]

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.