- Dec 23, 2006
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I do get tired of wasting money on computers that I plan to retire sooner rather than later. My 512GB A-data SX8100 (think poor man's S8200pro) had issues booting from time to time. I thought it was my motherboard because it's old. Then I read others having issues with A-data NVMe drives as well. It was a fast drive, not the fastest but when you put in cheap NVMe drives. You can tell it was a hot-rod NVMe for a PCI-e 3 drive. A couple of times in 100 or so boots the computer would hang on boot. Simply holding the power button down would restart the computer as if nothing happened. Once the drive was up and running it never had issues.
Here is what the numbers look like between the two drives. Userbenchmark says the SK Hynix is the 12th fastest NVMe drive (behind all those PCI-i4 drives) but they do not list it in their rankings. It boots faster than the SX8100 and has no micro stutter or hitch when booting. They also do not list the SX8100 in their rankings after running the benchmark. It's their somewhere. After benching both these drives there are thousands of other benches of the same drives.
Adata SX8100 512GB
SK hynix Gold P31 1TB
Here is what the numbers look like between the two drives. Userbenchmark says the SK Hynix is the 12th fastest NVMe drive (behind all those PCI-i4 drives) but they do not list it in their rankings. It boots faster than the SX8100 and has no micro stutter or hitch when booting. They also do not list the SX8100 in their rankings after running the benchmark. It's their somewhere. After benching both these drives there are thousands of other benches of the same drives.
Adata SX8100 512GB
SK hynix Gold P31 1TB
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