additional "The catch is that these drives using the SM2262 controller lose most of their performance advantage when the test is run on a full drive." (quoted from the anandtech review)
Note: The SX8200 which uses the SM2262 the SX8200 Pro is using the SM2262EN controller which however seems to be having similar issues.



This post has been edited by nrw: Jan 13 2019, 09:42 PM

Although there is a speed decrease, it's not to a level where it goes down lower than SATA SSD speed
Below is my test results between 7% and 96%



With the price difference between a Samsung 970 Pro 512GB at RM1K++ & ADATA SX8200 Pro 512GB at RM435, I'd take the ADATA anyday

This post has been edited by sHawTY: Jan 22 2019, 03:19 PM

i bought this sx8200 pro last week and use it on my B450 board.
so far the performance is okay, but sometimes im getting
"BSOD : unexpected_Store_exception"

around 2 times happened in 1 week, in happens when monitor goes to sleep or pc when its idle for long time, then suddenly blue screen with this stop code.

this is running on a fresh win 10 pro after updating windows.

This post has been edited by caloyness: Jan 22 2019, 03:14 PM

Are you having the same issue if you use another SSD?
Can state the model of your motherboard

Only happened since i switch to SX8200 pro as my main OS drive.

MSI b450 tomahawk with ryzen 2600

Does that mean you have another SSD that doesn't have this issue?

yes, using 120GB sandisk ultra before upgrading.

https://www.errorsolutions.tech/error/unexpected-store-exception-windows-10/
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums...n10itprogeneral
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...35-e1f3798b54c7

If don't want troubleshoot then maybe try reinstalling fresh Windows


Or can try use custom firmware. After I updated to 1809 windows can't read the drive's SMART info. I end up using Generic OFA NVMe driver v1.5.0.0 from Win-Raid forum to get back the SMART info.

thanks bro, will try.

below is per other user issue, almost same like mine. When leaving the PC idle for a long time.

I think this is more likely Windows issue. Before I use this SSD I also always encounter BSOD after back from SLEEP, and I always encounter Win Defender notify it stop unauthorized program from making changes to the memory (sometimes even Win own program!) after come back from HIBERNATE, and sometimes BSOD too. It will never fail to happen every time I use SLEEP or HIBERNATE, I now end up only use SHUTDOWN every time. I upgrade from Win 7 to 10, then use migration tools to change SSD twice. So maybe too many broken files already.

In comparison, new 970 Evo Plus. Note how good it is at keeping the speed. The only noticeable decreasement to be seen at 4KiB Q8T8.

However I agree with you (like I have said before) that at the current price point it is the best choice.
I merely wanted to point out the lack of this characteristic in your initial review which changes your conclusion abit, after all.
Thanks & cheers

This post has been edited by nrw: Jan 23 2019, 12:56 AM

Does this drive gets hot? Like after heavy benchmark etc

good price for performance

want to ask why adata toolbox temperature display error?

It's Windows driver issue. After I updated to 1809 windows can't read the drive's SMART info. I end up using Generic OFA NVMe driver v1.5.0.0 from Win-Raid forum to get back the SMART info.

how install it to work?

On Device Manager, look for Disk drives > ADATA SX8200, right click > update driver > let me pick > Have Disk, browse to the folder that you extracted

no wonder it still don't work mine is adata XPG GAMMIX S11 not SX8200

Hahaha lol

Another way that I found while googling is to fresh install Windows. But this is on different computer with different nvme drive. So don't know iwill it work the same with ADATA.

OFA NVMe driver slows down the SSD performance
My SX8200 Pro read & write speed drops down a lot after using the OFA NVMe driver