XPG SX850 512GB 3D-Nand Gaming 2.5 Inch SATA III Read Write Speed Up to 560/520 MB/s Solid State Drive (SSD-SX850-512G) …

This SSD is nearly as fast as the Samsung 970 PRO, but it's $60 cheaper (for the 512 GB size). It's also $30 cheaper than the 970 EVO. I'm not comparing claimed speeds, but the real world speeds from Crystal Disk Mark. Check out my results (pictured) and then compare them to the uploaded pictures on the Samsung reviews. The XPG Gammix S11 is only a little slower in sequential read/write, and even beats the Samsung in some of the random read/writes at lower queue depths.The S11's price to performance value can't be beat if you want a super fast SSD. I realize that the Samsung drives will probably last a *little* longer, but consider that you are basically trading a 5% speed decrease and 5% reliability decrease for a >30% price decrease. With that said, if you are paranoid about reliability, take the money you saved and buy a regular HDD and do weekly backups. That will result in a setup that is even more reliable than just a single Samsung SSD.For normal users, this drive is probably more than you need, but it's nice to have. With Fast Boot turned on in my BIOS, my computer boots in seconds. I haven't timed it, but it's fast enough that I don't bother with "hybrid sleep" and just shut my computer down when I don't want it. Video games load in seconds. Transfers to external drives over USB 3.1 are pretty much always limited by the speed of the external drive, only an external NVME drive of comparable speed can keep up. Transfers over my home network are always limited by the speed of my connection.For "power" users (I'm a statistician and analyze a lot of data), this drive is nice. Multi GB datasets can be saved and loaded to disk in the blink of an eye. It's common to think of things in a speed/memory tradeoff, and having a fast and fairly large SSD often tilts my thinking towards saving a single dataset in multiple stages of processing- it's almost always faster to load the file I snapshotted after "step 5" instead of re-running steps 1-5 again on the original data. It's nice to have a drive that's fast and large enough to enable this kind of frivolous behavior (which we never even dreamed of in the 90's). I use a regular HDD for archiving old projects, and keep my current projects on this drive for fast analysis. It's agonizing to switch to an old project on the HDD- being able to read100 MB/s used to feel fast, but now feels like I'm going die of old age before the data gets loaded.

I wanted to add a 2nd and bigger m2 drive on my new build but had already spent a ton on everything else. This 512GB M2 NVMe was clearly the leader in both performance and price. Install is simple and regardless of the drive should be the same. Win10 installed in minutes, reboots happen in seconds. Incredible fast compared to even an SSD and I like the clean look that doesn't require the cabling. Additionally, at this price point this M2 has a heat sink on it which ideally should help in heat dissipation but also looks cool. On my Gigabyte Z390 board it had a m2 heat sink as well and I had no issues installing it atop this module. Temps are fine and performance is fantastic.Longevity still to be seen given that I bought this in the past month. However, 1st impressions are awesome and I'd buy this again.

I already have a first gen sx8200 960gb that i was using as my game storage drive. But newer games are getting larger and I was actually getting close to full capacity. So I got this S11 pro 2tb to replace my sx8200 as my new game drive and replace my old 250gb Intel SSD with my sx8200 as my boot drive. The new s11 is a little bit faster in reads but way faster in writes and my sx8200 utterly destroys my old Intel SSD as a boot drive.In terms vs a 2nd gen sx8200 pro 2tb, from what I can tell both the s11 pro and sx8200 use the same nand and controller. Its just the heatsink on the s11 and different firmware configuration that separate's the two. From seeing a review on the s11 pro, the s11 pro firmware is configured to be a little bit more power efficient than the sx8200 pro and is a little bit better in longer sustained performance. While the sx8200 pro is a little bit better in short bursts performance but uses slightly more power. In the end there isn't that big of a difference. I like the heatsink and would benefit from it with my nvme slot placement so I went ahead with it. The heatsink really does help and I couldn't be happier.

This was good when i first bought it then somewhere around 45-60 days in this drive failed. I tested it in multiple machines to make sure but now can only be seen at 1GB instead of 2TB, even went as far as to buy PCIe adapter just in case one of the computers i was testing it in would recognize the drive because it was over a certain size. I have tried to calling support and never get through. I didn't buy the normal extended warranty and regret it at least some point i could file a claim ad get a new one.Update 2/23/21 on horrible support. They will not warranty their product because they did not ship it with a label attached to the M.2 drive. Note to other buys if you open the shipping box and see the drive or any drive sold by them without a label directly glued to it RETURN IT. They will not work with you without it. Does not matter if you can prove you purchased it and track it to you. No sticker no warranty or support. And they will not help you over the phone. When you call they tell you they will email you sometime later with the steps you need to complete through email only. Now i am out over 200.00 dollars for a hunk of plastic that does not work and came incomplete.

I've been doing this for hours, trying to clone my old Hard drive onto this ssd but apparently the one I received isn't working, I've tried 2 different cloning software and even went into my command line and tried but I can't seem to get it to work, it must be broken so I will return this for another ssd or this same one and hope I don't have the same problem. Sorry for the run on sentence lol.Update: I did a clean install with my new SSD (not this one) and the problem was my old HDD. This drives good!

Very disappointed.The device was very flaky to get noticed by BIOS at first, and after the frustrating installation with Windows 10, just one quick Crystal Disk Mark test causes a crash and since then, this device never shows up on BIOS nor Windows...It's such a shame since the unfinished Crystal Disk Mark test shows the exact same speed on both ways as it's advertised, but the reliability is just not there.I don't recommend this product ever, go with the other reliable brands.

As another user had mentioned there were misleading claims of write speeds. I can confirm. I purchased under the assumption the read/write speed of 3500/3000 respectively (stated twice on website). So I install on my Ryzen 5 3600/X570 A-PRO/DDR4 3200 16GB. Do a CrystalDiskMark and obtain just under 3000 Read and just over 1000 write. Thought maybe it's my other parts since I read AMD may not run the correct speeds all the time, specifically new Gen.I pick up the box and look at the back, low and behold, Read 3500, Write 1200. So technically the speed is bang on, just would have liked what the advertisement was for i.e. 3000 write. Perhaps they need to change it on Amazon website. Don't get me wrong though, the performance is perfect.

Pros:- Much faster than the Crucial P1 for $20 difference- Better 600 TBW vs 200 TBW (Crucial)- Has a heatsink from the factory- 5 yr warrantyPros- The Red "gamer" motif- Speed isn't as advertised even as the drive is almost emptyTook a chance on this drive and it hit the bang for the buck for me. Especially when i ordered it, it had a $10 off coupon + i didnt get charged provincial tax. So it came out a better deal than the Crucial P1 for $20 more + better speed overall. The SSD uses the much more time tested TLC vs QLC. TLC technology had enough time to mature and offer similar specs to MLC. Im sure, in time QLC will offer the same reliability and specs to TLC and MLC. But for now, if you don't want to invest on a newer NAND chip technology, you should add this drive to your consideration.I dont like the red colored heatsink. I prefer a black or grey color so it will blend much easier for those who care about aesthetics. Would that stop my from buying this? Nope.As for the speed, it didnt performed as advertised. Even when the drive is empty, it fell short of the advertised speed.Both Crucial and this drive offer 5 yr warranty. Good to see that the company believe in its products well enough to provide a longer warranty compared to the competition.

The read speed is much lower than it says on Amazon. It’s fine it’s still over a gigabit but. I would of appreciated being told the truth. It’s still worth the money but you know. I like to trust the advertisement..

Out of the box pic benchmark.Does not come with the mounting crew but you should have them when you got your motherboard. Just check your box. Using for steam library (gaming). 1.86TB in total so reasonably close to 2tb. All companies should really change that around as most clients would be upset since they feel as that they are not getting the full amount of storage for what they paid for. Its not just ADATA.After physical installation if drive does not show up under my computer remember to create partition using Disk Management. (My heart skipped a beat at first, thought it was dead on arrival)Using on Prime x470 pro motherboard (mb) on first slot. mb's heat sink does not fit over the storage oem heat sink - under prolonged heavy load never wend above 60C in ambient room temp of 28C (it was summer day). Second slot has Samsung 960 EVO 500gb with OS ( yes it is throttled to sata speed of 600mb now due to configuration/ability of mb but windows load time did not change a slightest for me)* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 3395.640 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 2899.687 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1412.841 MB/s [ 344931.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 1424.779 MB/s [ 347846.4 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 351.796 MB/s [ 85887.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 261.197 MB/s [ 63768.8 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 49.737 MB/s [ 12142.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 138.161 MB/s [ 33730.7 IOPS] Test : 8192 MiB [F: 1.4% (26.1/1907.7 GiB)] (x1) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2020/05/29 0:21:26 OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0] (x64)7 month update:3rd pic is 7 month almost daily use. At 49% capacity benchmark.