ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB SSD Review

Test System and setup

CrystalDiskInfo reporting shows all the relevant information of the drive. Even after a short time I had written over 1.8TB to the drive. Only when you see these numbers do you realize just how much wear SSD’s experience over their lifetimes. That 5-year warranty and 300TBW+ lifecycle matters.

Testing was done on the ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus, which only features an M.2 Heatsink on the secondary M.2 socket. The SX8200 Pro was tested on the primary socket with the drive’s packaged heat sink.

As with many if not all SSD’s tested performance is always higher with CPU C-states disabled. However, that isn’t the way I would imagine people operate their computers. As such all testing was done under regular conditions with the default C-state settings.

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