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.
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.
Bought this to install in an Aurora R7 that I recently purchased used, and which came without a SSD. After doing some research it seemed like either this or the XPG8200 pro (which is the same minus the heatsink) was the best value option.
I started downloading their migration software, but slow download times from the website reminded me that I had read the adata migration software often had problems so I downloaded Macrium Reflect (free and easy to use) to clone my C: drive instead.
After the migration I restarted the computer with the sata drive unplugged, just to make sure windows booted off the new SSD, which it did. After a reboot with the HDD plugged back in, with the system still booting off the SSD, I can say that it was a pretty painless install with an amazing performance increase.
I did deduct a star because of the software that would barely download (and which is supposedly garbage, though I never tried it), and because the drive doesn't come with a standoff screw (my board had one it it, but it seems like something that should be included at this price point).
Below are numbers from running a quick system benchmark on the drive, as well as a before and after of my complete system ratings with the new drive.
I have installed lot's of ADATA SSDs! The XPG works nice and easy. Only if you plan to install in a Mac you should first format the drive in a Windows for mac to recognize the drive, then you can format in HFS from a MAC to install OSX.
Works perfect :)
Thanks ADATA!
I was kinda pissed off it didn't come with a nvme standoff screw. I had to run down frys which doesn't have nvme standoff screws by themselves and bought a 7 dollar nvme usb 3.0 adapter just for the damn standoff screw. I tested the speeds with crystaldiskmark and they were on the money as advertised on the packaging, ill update the review should the speeds deteriorate in time or anything else happens. Bought this because Adata nvme drives are now close to or on par with samsung evo nvme drives, but a little cheaper.
Feature Product
- Ultra-Fast PCIe NVMe Gen3x4 Interface
- Read/Write up to 2100/1500 MB/s *May vary by capacity
- Single-sided design to fit Ultrabook, slim laptop, and compact PC
- Interface: PCIe NVMe Gen3x4. Please check your motherboard manual and make sure your motherboard's M. 2 connector supports PCIe or M Key.
- Interface: PCIe NVMe Gen3x4. Please check your motherboard manual and make sure your motherboard's M.2 slot supports PCIe NVMe or M Key with NVMe. This SSD is not compatible with Mac. Additional parts may be required to use on Mac system.
Description
Boot, load, and transfer faster with the XPG GAMMIX S5 PCIe Gen3x4 M. 2 2280 solid state drive (SSD). With support for NVMe 1. 3 and equipped with 3D NAND Flash, it offers up to 4 times faster performance than SATA SSDs and up to 1TB of capacity. What’s more, the GAMMIX S5 sports excellent heat dissipation capability with a built-in heatsink that can lower temperatures by up to 10°C.
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!
Bought it with a lightning deal ($93.49 before tax).
There are no available review on that model but the XPG Gammix S11 Pro is based on Silicon Motion’s SM2262EN controller which is an improved version of the SM2262 used in the XPG Gammix S11 (eight NAND channels supporting up to 800 MT/s data transfer rates, four ARM Cortex-R5 cores, NVMe 1.3, LDPC ECC, RAID engine, etc.) that operates at higher clocks and features some additional firmware-based optimizations to drive performance up.
Had some issues trying to install Windows on it (Asus Z-97 Pro WiFi AC motherboard with an Ubuntu/Windows 10 Insider Preview dual boot on multiple 2.5" SSDs), so I'm planning on using XPG provided cloning software (Acronis True image HD). Haven't done that yet.
Cheaper than Samsung Pro NVME but about the same performance
Actually, it's in a drawer in my room, haven't even used it yet. But XPG is a reliable brand, and this one is fast. At a price of less than twenty bucks it's cheaper than lots of thumb drives, for a full blown hard drive. At prices like this, it's easy to keep a few lying around to use as a super fast secondary (or primary) drive to store videos, photos, or important files. love the low prices of ssd drives right now. I've put them in all my computers, and it greatly improved the speed of even the old ones.
I installed this XPG SX850 128GB 3D-NAND Gaming SSD in my old Dell Latitude D820 laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz CPU, 4GB RAM). I don't do gaming, but I wanted to see how well it would work for general use. Onto it I installed Sparky Linux with XFCE desktop. It's certainly much faster than a 7200 RPM hard drive. How well it'll work over the long haul remains to be seen, but so far, so good.
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