ADATA XPG SX8200 SSD Review: Affordable, Quick NVMe-Based Storage

Name: ADATA SX8200
Brand: ADATA

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 01:30 PM EDT

ADATA SX8200 M.2 NVMe SSD: PCMark Storage 2.0 Tests

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We like PCMark's Storage 2.0 benchmark module for its real-world application measurement approach to testing. PCMark offers a trace-based measurement of system response times under various scripted workloads of traditional client / desktop system operation. From simple application start-up performance, to data streaming from a drive in a game engine, and video and photo editing with Adobe applications, we are comfortable that these tests reasonably illustrate the performance profile of SSDs in an end-user / consumer PC usage model, more so than a purely synthetic transfer test.

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The ADATA XPG SX8200's overall bandwidth according to PCMark was competitive, but ultimately trailed most of the drives we tested. In terms of overall performance, however, the ADATA XPG SX8200 lands in the second place position, due to its good latency and strong low-queue depth random 4K transfer performance.