The Acer FA200 2TB SSD!

Acer FA200 2TB SSD: https://amzn.to/4gccXRw Today we’re taking a look at the Acer FA200 NVMe PCI express Gen4 2 terrabyte SSD. Thanks to Acer for sending this over for us to take a look at. The FA200 series of SSDs is rated for up to 7200Mbs and comes in 1, 2, and 4 terabyte capacities. This is certainly one of the fastest rated QLC based drives that I have looked at so far so that was interesting. These drives use an SLC cache combined with HMB or host memory buffer to really amp up the overall performance and endurance. I set this drive up in my Ryzen 9700X RTX 4070 Super gaming PC on my test bench. With the Operating System installed on the FA200, I ran CrystalDiskMark8 to get an idea of read and write performance with a clean empty windows install but we all know drives tend to slow down as they fill up. I reran the testing at 51% and 80% storage utilization to look at what kind of speed penalty that caused. With the drive relatively empty, I saw about 7,200mb/s sequential read speed which is excellent and sequential write speeds of just over 6,200mb/s, also excellent. Filling the drive up to 51% saw no change in read speed and a very small drop in write speed, 6,050ish megabytes per second vs 6200 empty. That’s super good performance in my opinion, barely noticeable when you have all your games and applications installed. Running this benchmark again at 80% utilization, the drive saw 7,200mb/s read and just over 5900mb/s write, which is really good performance, especially when you consider this is a QLC drive that's 80% full. The SLC cache and HMB are really doing some heavy lifting here making this a very fast and reasonably priced NVME SSD. The 2tb version of this drive which is what I have here is rated for 1000 terabytes written which is a really solid endurance rating to go along with the 5 year long warranty. Gaming PC Builds: AMD Ryzen 7000 Gaming Rig: AMD Ryzen 7700X: https://amzn.to/3CaOSZq ASRock X670E PG Lightning: https://amzn.to/3RzAjEg G.Skill DDR5 6000 CL32 EXPO: https://amzn.to/3IoQD8M be quiet Dark Rock 5 Pro: https://amzn.to/48AXVS2 RTX 4070: https://amzn.to/4ayiv6F be quiet! Light Base 900 DX (white): https://amzn.to/49nkQBH be quiet! Straight Power 12 - 1000w PSU: https://amzn.to/3vgygzs Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD: https://amzn.to/49cKkRk Fanxiang S690Q 1TB: https://amzn.to/4912CWr Everest MAX Mechanical Gaming Keyboard: https://amzn.to/3YM9J29 Intel Build: 14700k: https://amzn.to/3I2gG5f be quiet! Pure Loop 2 FX 280mm AIO: https://amzn.to/43XCc5B MSI Z790-A WiFi: https://amzn.to/3OCLaOY 64GB G.Skill DDR5-6400CL32: https://amzn.to/3JlQRxU RTX 4070: https://amzn.to/4ayiv6F be quiet! Light Base 900 DX (white): https://amzn.to/49nkQBH be quiet! Straight Power 12 1000watt: https://amzn.to/3HX4Iu0 Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD: https://amzn.to/49cKkRk Phixero P500 SSD: https://amzn.to/3NHtQaY Everest MAX Mechanical Gaming Keyboard: https://amzn.to/3YM9J29 More Cool Tech Stuff: http://bit.ly/SamsTechStuff PC Builds: http://bit.ly/PC-Builds-STS Homelab / Mini Data Center: http://bit.ly/HomeLab-STS Component Reviews: http://bit.ly/Reviews-STS Good Stuff on Amazon 👍👍 Don't Have Amazon Prime Yet? Try It FREE for 30 Days! https://amzn.to/38uBmSo Try Audible Plus: https://amzn.to/38xeW2y Give The Gift Of Audible: https://amzn.to/3bAU2Sd Try Audible Premium Plus and Get Up to TWO FREE Audiobooks: https://amzn.to/3exCecr Don't Have That Kindle Membership Yet? Learn More Here: https://amzn.to/2OsCyyB Check Out Amazon Prime Music Here: https://amzn.to/3l7v8wA Social: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamsTechStuff Facebook: https://facebook.com/SamsTechStuff Website: http://samstechstuff.com Amazon links in this description and in the comments section may be Affiliate links. These links help support the channel and are free for you to use. When you buy something on Amazon, a small percentage is paid to the channel. This helps me reinvest in new hardware and equipment to keep making more higher quality videos. .