ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 3D NAND 512GB Solid State Drive - ASX8200PNP-512GT-C

Writing this review after a week and half. Booting speed has really improved, from 2 to 3 minutes to mearly 3 seconds. I haven't used any migration software for the OS but did a fresh install. Using a USB 3 external hard drive did not show much improvement, but may be that's because of my CPU and RAM. Game loading is really fast and I have tested it with some heavy games like battlefield 5 and ACE Combat 7, will test today with Ghost recon wildlands and shadow of tomb raider.

Got this SSD after going through a lot of reviews . I use a ROG strix G531 initially it used to take a lot of time to boot the system but eventually it got better and boots in less than 10 secs . Read write is around 2500 / 3000 . If you are looking for gaming this would be the best and valur for money . Go for the 512 GB instead of 256 GB eventually you'll want a 512 GB .

Speed lies between Samsung 970 evo and evo plus (checked by crystaldisk). Cheaper than those too. Have to check for long time performance and durability though.

It has a decent SLC Cache (~64GB - 70GB in my testing). Has a DRAM cache and is TLC based. All this while being cheaper than the competitors. Included heat sink is a joke to be honest, but it's better than not having one. Haven't done extensive testing for temperatures, but given it's winters in northern India, this wouldn't be an ideal time to test the temps. Will try and update the temps after a couple of months perhaps.As for the performance, sequential R/W is 3200 MBps/2500 MBps as long as you're under the 60GB -70GB mark. This was on a PCIe 3.0 board. Should be same on PCIe 4.0.If you're looking for an upgrade over an old SSD or a spinning drive, on a budget, this is the best option for you.If you want pure performance, no budget constraints, and your board/CPU supports PCIe 4.0, go for a Crucial P5 plus or a WD SN850 black.

The performance of my laptop improved significantly after installing this m.2 ssd. Booting time reduced significantly, all applications became very responsive. Software installation became fast... however I faced some difficulty in instillation of windows in this ssd. May be this due to that I'm not a tech person..I'm using HP pavilion x360 with i 3 processor & I can feel drastic improvement in the performance after this M.2 ssd... recommended.

6 seconds you load windows, 4 seconds to launch my games, this is unreal !

Compared to regular HDD and sad, nvme drives are way faster. Boot times and game load times have been reduced to a fraction of what they were before. Adata is cheaper than Samsung Evo, and for normal use, this is more than enough in my opinion.

Lighting fast speed if you are upgrading from HDD to SSD you will be shocked to see your pc performance after the update I installed this on my Lenovo Yoga 520 (i3) and now it's working flawless.