![]() Ping: /u/NewMaxx from the previous scandal thread. The ADATA SX8200 Pro was once an amazing SSD (it was one of the best on the market), but is now just a basic SSD with bad performance that no longer matches its own price/value. Or maybe I just return this slow SK Hynix flash garbage to the store and buy an SSD from another brand (if so, which)? What would you do? What are people's thoughts? I'm thinking of bypassing my store and contacting ADATA directly to get a unit with Samsung or Intel/Micron flash. And their TBW/endurance value is no longer true, so we don't know how many write cycles this new flash will last. Just compare the 2nd and 3rd drives in their "empty drive" state above. The low-quality flash they're using now is around 1000 MB/sec SLOWER than the Samsung flash from their previous "downgrade". Summary: ADATA SX8200 Pro is using very slow flash memory now, from a low quality manufacturer (SK Hynix is nowhere near the quality of Intel/Micron or Samsung). Very slow speeds on this brand new, empty drive. Via PCH: SM2262G with Hynix 3dv5-96L TLC: February 2021, empty drive / Second benchmark to verify that it really IS that slow. The performance loss in February is again related to this other drive being half-full now. Via CPU: SM2262G with Samsung 3dv4-64L TLC: December 2020, empty drive / February 2021, 54% full drive. Unfortunately I can't empty this drive to do an "optimal performance re-test" since it's my OS drive. When this drive was new (same computer, same PCH bridge), I was getting 3400-3600MB/s read and 2800-3000MB/s write, but I didn't save the benchmark images. Otherwise this would be the fastest in all metrics. The fact that the drive is full is interfering with the speeds. Via PCH: SM2262EN with Micron 96L(B27B) TLC: December 2020, 97% full drive / February 2021, 94% full drive. Thanks a lot for being super awful and learning nothing from your previous scandal a few months ago, ADATA! And its new speed is NOWHERE NEAR the original specifications ADATA wrote for the SX8200 Pro back when it used quality flash memory. So I have no idea how long this slow and low-quality flash will last. ![]() ADATA has found a way to downgrade it EVEN MORE while still charging the same high price for customers! They now use SK Hynix flash which is around -1000MB/s SLOWER than the Samsung "downgrade" flash! The decision makers at ADATA didn't even care about updating their TBW endurance specifications or their expected speeds when they continue downgrading these units. So I ordered a third one (order 3) thinking I'd get the same downgraded version. Unlike other people, I wasn't too upset by that downgrade (my 2nd order), since it was still fast enough and used quality Samsung flash which was still fast. ADATA were even contacted by Tom's Hardware and put out an official statement: And I purchased all of them at the exact same retailer, using the exact same ADATA product number each time.ĪDATA recently downgraded the hardware in October 2020, by using a slower controller and slower Samsung flash, angering a lot of people and making news headlines. Note: Windows only monitors NVM SSD and not SATA SSD or hard disk drives (HDD).I am in the unique position of having purchased 3x ADATA SX8200 Pro 2TB drives at three different points in time. High speed: Non-Volatile Memory (NVMe), which is is an associated communications standard. These devices have two main bus interfaces: ![]() SSD is an abbreviation for solid-state drive or solid-state device. SSD storage devices are built-in or external devices based on integrated circuit assemblies and flash memory. Temperature of the overall device in degrees Celsius. Note that although the value is capped at 0%, a value below that is possible as consumption does not automatically mean device failure.Ī normalized percentage (0% to 100%) of the remaining spare capacity available. The approximate percentage used, which is based on the manufacturer’s prediction of drive life. There are also three disk health attributes you can watch that affect disk performance: Reliability is degraded because of significant media-related errors or an internal error to the NVM subsystem.ĭata stored on the device can still be accessed but you can’t write to it. Spare storage capacity is below the manufacturer's safety threshold. There are three types of critical warnings: ![]() Note: The Manage disks and volumes feature is currenlty available only for Windows Insiders.
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