UserBenchmark: Adata XPG SX8200 NVMe PCIe M.2 vs Crucial MX300

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Best Bench: 95% 67GB free
Worst Bench: 53% 38GB free (System drive)

Poor: 53% Great: 95%

SPEED RANK: 492^nd / 1072

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Best Bench: 241% 67GB free (System drive)
Worst Bench: 104% 58GB free (System drive)

Poor: 104% Great: 241%

SPEED RANK: 152^nd / 1072


Effective Speed Effective SSD Speed		79.4 %			153 %	Hugely faster effective speed. +93%


Read Avg. Sequential Read Speed	433 MB/s		1527 MB/s	Hugely faster read speed. +253%
Write Avg. Sequential Write Speed	380 MB/s	Faster write speed. +17%	325 MB/s
4K Read Avg. 4K Random Read Speed	24.2 MB/s		38.5 MB/s	Much faster random read. +59%
4K Write Avg. 4K Random Write Speed	84.7 MB/s		129 MB/s	Much faster random write. +52%
Mixed Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed	339 MB/s		438 MB/s	Faster mixed IO speed. +29%
4K Mixed Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	33.9 MB/s		49.9 MB/s	Much faster random mixed IO. +47%
SusWrite Avg. Sustained Write Speed	217 MB/s		306 MB/s	Much faster sustained write speed. +41%


Read Peak Sequential Read Speed	472 MB/s	2104 MB/s	Hugely faster peak read speed. +346%
Write Peak Sequential Write Speed	478 MB/s	1040 MB/s	Hugely faster peak write speed. +118%
4K Read Peak 4K Random Read Speed	28.2 MB/s	61.3 MB/s	Hugely faster peak random read. +117%
4K Write Peak 4K Random Write Speed	117 MB/s	193 MB/s	Much faster peak random write. +65%
Mixed Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed	402 MB/s	989 MB/s	Hugely faster peak mixed IO speed. +146%
4K Mixed Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed	41.4 MB/s	79.3 MB/s	Hugely faster peak random mixed IO. +92%
SusWrite Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average	273 MB/s	884 MB/s	Hugely faster peak sustained write speed. +224%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.05 %	Insanely higher market share. +∞%	0 %
Value Value For Money	11 %		22.7 %	Hugely better value. +106%
User Rating UBM User Rating	55 %	Slightly more popular. +6%	52 %
Price Price (score)	$100		$80	Cheaper. +20%


Age Newest	94 Months	72+ Months	More recent. +23%
DQ Read Peak 4K-64Thread Read Speed	236 MB/s	815 MB/s	Hugely faster peak deep queue read. +245%
DQ Write Peak 4K-64Thread Write Speed	326 MB/s	713 MB/s	Hugely faster peak deep queue write. +119%
AS-SSD Total AS-SSD Total Score	972 Pts	2,618 Pts	Hugely stronger server IO. +169%
DQ Mixed Peak 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed	306 MB/s	630 MB/s	Hugely faster peak deep queue mixed IO. +106%
ADQ Read Avg. 4K-64Thread Read Speed	216 MB/s	389 MB/s	Hugely faster deep queue read. +80%
ADQ Write Avg. 4K-64Thread Write Speed	257 MB/s	297 MB/s	Faster deep queue write. +16%
ADQ Mixed Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed	245 MB/s	281 MB/s	Faster deep queue mixed IO. +15%


Capacity Capacity			275GB			240GB

The 275GB Crucial MX300 supersedes the MX200. Unlike its predecessor, the MX300 is TLC based and therefore suffers from weak write speeds in comparison to MLC drives. The MX300 utilises a sophisticated algorithm to enable fast burst write speeds provided that there is sufficient free space on the disk but as the drive fills up write performance drops to the relatively poor levels seen on other TLC drives (similar to mechanical drives). At current prices (70 USD) the MX300 competes well with other low end drives such as the OCZ Trion, Adata SP550 and Samsung 750 EVO. As stocks build the MX300 is likely to see further price cuts, so it could become a very interesting value proposition. See the current value leaders here. ^{[Sep '16 SSDrivePro]}

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Adata’s XPG SX8200 offers NVMe PCIe SSD performance at SATA SSD prices, thereby offering outstanding value for money to casual and power PC users alike. Adata have combined two high performance commodity components: a Silicon Motion controller (SM2262) and Micron’s second generation 3D TLC 64 layer flash memory. The XPG SX8200 also includes a generous SLC cache and a DRAM cache buffer. Adata have not specified the exact size of the SLC cache in each model but it’s clear from our 60 second sustained write tests that the buffer is sufficient for more than 60 seconds of continuous writes which equates to over 60GB (60s x 1 GB/s) for the 240GB model and over 90GB (60s x 1.5 GB/s) for the 480GB and 960GB models. Unlike many other drives with SLC caching, the SX8200 has a large enough cache to ensure that consumers will almost always operate the drive within the cache and therefore experience no write degradation at all. Adata offer a 5 year warranty and a limited TBW warranty (160 TBW for the 240 GB version, 320 TBW for the 480GB and 640 TBW for the 960GB) on these SSDs, which is in line with other premium manufacturers. The NVMe PCIe SSD consumer market has been dominated by Samsung in recent years but the 240GB SX8200 beats Samsung’s 250GB 970 Evo hands down on both price and performance (the 250GB 970 Evo is let down by a relatively small SLC cache which allows for less than 10 seconds of writes before saturation after which the write speed on the Evo drops to mere sub SATA 300 MB/s). The SX8200 is the new value leader and heralds a new era of competition for the mainstream segment of the NVMe SSD market. ^{[Jul '18 SSDrivePro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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