Brandon Whitehead's Tech Blog

Quick gallery of images before getting to the review ADATA XPG SX8200 SSD Rating ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Pros Performance Price  Paid $49.99+tax for it Management software  Mine works but has an interesting bug. It shows my SSD as being at 65,263 Degrees Celsius for its current operating temperature #FIRE Included heatsink is nice  Although, I'm not using it Cons 240GB version has a little bit slower performance than the higher capacity versions of this drive but I doubt it's truly noticeable Other Thoughts I bought this to replace my previous M.2 NVMe boot drive (a 1TB HP EX920) on my gaming PC. I migrated the 1TB SSD to an Intel NUC so I needed a new boot drive for my gaming PC. I no longer needed 1TB of space so I started looking at 240-256GB capacity drives. Newegg/ADATA happened to put this 240GB drive on sale so I immediately grabbed it after reading some very positive reviews of this drive. Compared to a lot of the other options, this ...

Just a couple of pictures of the packaging the SSD arrived in from Amazon. I guess it really is "frustration free". Crucial MX 500 2TB SSD Rating ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Pros Capacity (2 TB of solid state storage!!) Price (Paid about $0.10/GB [$208.99] total during an Amazon flash sale on Cyber Monday) Speed (Plenty fast for a SATA based SSD) Longevity (Not one of the new quad-level cell [QLC NAND] SSDs so it should handle more write cycles) Management software (Firmware updates/extra features/etc…) Cons None Other Thoughts I've been looking at options for getting mass storage in my ITX build and I was hopeful that a good deal on a multi terabyte capacity SSD would show up around the Black Friday/Cyber Monday season. Sure enough, Amazon put this one on sale. It was very hard to resist at that price. I looked at several 1TB options around the $120-$140 range but I wanted something with a bit more capacity without having to pay over double the cost of so...

Update: 9/9/2018 I added a few more listings below... feel free to check them out! Here we are back at it again! Check out the new listings I just put up if you're interested at all. One of these listings will be live for 30 and the other for 7 days unless someone scoops it up with the Buy It Now Price. Seagate 2000GB 2TB SATA III 6Gbps 5900RPM NAS Hard Disk Drive [HDD] ST2000VN000 Sold Seagate Ebay Listing Intel SSD 600p Series SSDPEKKW512G7X1 512 GB M.2 80mm PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Sold Intel SSD Listing NZXT Grid+ V2 USB 6 Channel Digital Fan Controller (Controlled with NZXT CAM) Sold Grid+ V2 Listing SilverStone SX500-LG SFX-L 500w 80Plus Gold Small Form Factor (SFF) Power Supply Sold SilverStone SX500-LG Drevo Calibur Wireless RGB Mechanical Keyboard Black w/ Black Switches & O-Rings Sold Drevo Calibur Black Switch Black