Acer FA200 NVMe SSD Review

In this review we looked at the ACER FA200 SSD.  I have used a number of these drives and have a 2TB edition running my local AI development system allowing for extremely fast model loading times and enough capacity to do what I need.  In the world of Gen5 SSDs there are still plenty of Gen4 drives on the market that deliver extremely good performance at a fraction of the cost making the FA200 a very budget friendly storage option.  This drive family supports capacities of 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB making it perfect for desktops, laptops and game consoles either as primary storage or storage expansion.

The advertised speed of the ACER FA200 4TB is 7100MB/s Read and 6100MB/s Write.  Based on our benchmarks those numbers seem to be completely accurate provided that your motherboard supports PCI Express Gen4 and you correctly install the drive into a Gen4 M.2 slot.  With our tests I never noticed any thermal throttling though did have it installed under the motherboard M.2 heatsink.  Temperature can play a critical role in overall performance and continued write performance so, it is important that devices remain cool.

Overall, the ACER FA200 is a great drive with amazing performance.  What I find amazing is that the drive is simply sold as a drive, no ARGB lights, no extra heatsinks just excellent out of box performance.  When it comes to real world performance plenty of factors come into play including Motherboard, Memory and Processor making drives like this a smart selection especially, when your build is not running on the bleeding edge of adoption of the highest-level components.   

Affordable Storage
Great Performance
Available in sizes up to 4TB
Small Form Factor
Perfect “Every System” Upgrade

500GB version suffers from slow writes