Acer FA200 M.2 BL.9BWWA.125 2 TB

A fast, cutting-edge PCI-E 4.0 SSD designed to meet the demanding demands of gamers and content creators. Made in a compact M.2 format, so it can be installed even in small ultrabooks. Despite its high speed performance, it is one of the most affordable M.2 drives that can work with PCI-E 4.0. The key feature of the model is a four-channel bufferless controller with support for HMB technology.

This is a somewhat revolutionary solution for the budget sector, which makes it possible to abandon the rather expensive buffer SDRAM memory, using free system memory instead. The drive uses a modern PCI-E 4.0 class controller with support for the NVMe 2.0 interface, which ensures lightning-fast launch of applications, high responsiveness when working with large arrays of files (note: video sources, sample libraries, RAW photos) and almost instant loading of seamless game worlds.

Thus, the FA200 can become an affordable alternative to specialized SSDs for game consoles and workstations. The manufacturer's stated sequential read speed is 7200 MB/s, write speed is 6200 MB/s. The speed of random reading and writing of 4K blocks is 800 and 1000 thousand I/O operations per second. Thanks to the Thermal Throttle mechanism and high thermal conductivity graphene gasket, the control controller does not suffer from overheating during particularly intensive tasks.

In addition to the drive itself, the package includes an adapted version of Acronis True Image software for cloning data and creating backup copies. The high level of reliability is confirmed by a 5-year official warranty and a decent guaranteed recording resource (TBW) of 600 TB. In addition to the 2 TB version, the manufacturer also announced options with 1 TB and 4 TB of memory.