If you are looking for a fast and affordable Solid-State Drive (SSD) the ADATA XPG SX8200 PCIe SSD series is worth taking a look at. This M.2 2280 NVMe 1.3 supporting drive series is actually ADATA’s fastest SSD to date! ADATA went with the Silicon Motion SM2262 controller paired with Intel 64-Layer 3D TLC NAND Flash (2nd Gen) and was able to get read/write speeds of up to 3200/1700 MB/s over the PCIe Gen 3 x4 interface. ADATA also offers this exact drive with a more aggressive heat spreader with the XPG Gammix S11 series. Earlier this year we reviewed the ADATA XPG SX 8000/Gammix S10 series that featured the SM2260 controller with Intel 32-Layer 3D TLC NAND Flash (1st Gen). The XPG SX8200/Gammix S11 series drives are the latest and greatest that ADATA has for the time being.

Performance of course varies on the capacity of the drive that you get and the SX8200 series is a 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB capacities for $89.99, $169.99 and $349.99, respectively. When it comes to endurance you are looking at an endurance rating of 160 TBW per every 240GB of storage space. If you do some math with the series 5-year warranty that gives you a peak daily usage of roughly 88GB written per day on the 240GB drive, 175GB/day on the 480GB drive and 351GB/day on the largest 960GB drive. That is a good bit of data to be writing to a drive every day, so this endurance rating and warranty length is more golden.