Great you found good old USB Stick @Todd Sauve - it's picky sometimes, other times it'll take any USB, hard to tell and probably board/BIOS specific too.

Yeah, I'm just glad I thought of my old Patriot 16GB USB 2 drive sitting in the SUV! Had a bunch of MP3s on it but they were easy enough to copy into a folder and then try on the Z87 board. Glad it worked! And it went very fast, too. Only took about 1.5 minutes and voila!

With this Adata SX8200 Pro 512GB SSD my PC is way faster! My old SSD was no slouch, being a Sandisk Ultra II 500GB. But the Adata reads at over 3GB/s and writes at about 2.4 GB/s, so you can imagine the quantum leap this has been. The PC boots much quicker now and programs and OSes install like greased lightning!

It was a lot of work, you wouldn't believe some of the DUMB things that went wrong. For instance, the anchor screw that holds one end of the SSD down on the PCIe add in board pulled the screw in mechanism right out of the PCB. I finally ended up having to epoxy the end of the SSD to the PCB! Man, what a nightmare! But now that it's running I'm one very happy guy! I have Win 10 and Linux Mint 19.1 dual booting with no problems whatsoever.

@Todd Sauve - I'm surprised the 16GB one worked! I've seen 32GB work a time or two as well, but usually smaller is more compatible. You should epoxy that screw in mech back in place instead of SSD to PCB
Good to hear all is running nice and fast now!

I did try to glue the screw and anchor back in place on the PCIe board but the Krazy Glue got all over my right index find and solidified! I could hardly do anything with my fingers and the stupid anchor just wouldn't stay in place before the glue solidified. These two items are so small, you can hardly see them, let alone find them when they fall on the carpet!

Originally the factory just press fitted the anchor into the PCB and the flexing of the SSD popped it out. I was largely at my wits end when I decided to epoxy the end of the SSD to the PCB, and it was late in the evening and back was killing me.

Anyway, it is working quite happily now and if I need to use it in another build in the future, I'll just have to pry it off the PCB or put it in a 4x expansion slot. Ha, ha!

I always get it on my fingers too! I've used tiny slits of double-sided 3M tape to hold SSD in place in tablets and laptops, so I know what you were going through there.

The nice thing about the Adata SX8200 Pro is that it is as fast as a Samsung 970 EVO but WAY less expensive! They want $200 for the Samsung everywhere here in Calgary while I got the Adata for $139.99.

You can't beat that with a stick, so if you are looking for a VERY fast NVMe PCIe drive, look carefully at the Adata.

Thanks, I will check them out @Todd Sauve - I do need to purchase one sometime, still using old slow "normal" SSD

@ Todd: Glad you finally found a USB 2.0 stick to get all 'flashy'; and welcome to the world of NVMe SSDs! BTW delighted to hear I could help a fellow aging "Canucklehead". :)

Computers can very much be a 'gong show' like the one I am going through with Asus on my workstation build; 2 RMAs and the 3rd (third!) board with the courier and approximately 90 days! The last RMA I told them, they weren't fit for purpose, and useful only for target practice at the shooting range. That prompted them to eat their $262.50 repair fee on an X399 workstation board...the circus continues!

Another Canadian? What a small world!

They've got two of us in the klink in China and are wanting to execute a third one. Who'd have thought we'd ever be so popular?

Yes, the horror stories I've endured when working on my PCs! Anyone who says Murphy is a myth doesn't know Jack ...

Here is a screenshot of my Adata SX8200 Pro's Anvil Benchmark score.


I replaced the original screenshot that was truncated with a fresh screenshot that includes everything.

Can't say I've had that problem. But then I've always used discrete AIC(add-in card) graphics solutions rather than relying on Intel built in graphics. Try updating your graphics driver; either at Intel, NVidia or AMD Radeon as the case may be...

Cheers

Here is my CrystalMark 6.02 benchmark score screenshot from my Adata SX8200 Pro 512GB NVMe SSD. Keep in mind that this is a 6 year old Asus Z87 Plus motherboard using a PCIe 3x4 add in card placed in the PCIe3 slot furthest from the CPU (i7 4700K overclocked to 4.3GHz) with 16GB DDR3 RAM, so this is not the latest tech by a long shot. Still, this is a very respectable score, IMHO! ;-)

A very healthy score indeed...looks like you'll eke a couple more years out of your system.

Cheers! :)

Zitat von hancor im Beitrag #28

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A very healthy score indeed...looks like you'll eke a couple more years out of your system.

Cheers! :)

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Please inform me. I bought Adata sx8200 Pro for Asus z87 Plus. What card should I buy?
M.2 NVMe SSD NGFF PCIE 3.0X16
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/K9ECFMFQL
Is That okay?