Acer Predator GM9000 2 TB NVME SSD Review

Acer is not exactly the name that often appears in the SSD sphere, right? If I sat down now, a completely recent shiny SSD GM9000 PCIe 5.0 in your hands, and asked you exactly who today was a lion’s participation on the storage market, I suspect that Acer probably would not create the best list now, right? NO. This is understandable, it is more related to laptops of production games and computers ready than non -standard memory periphery that penetrate our domain of a computer building. But yes, in fact it has its own SSD line and, in the last few years, has sold the masses to the budget -oriented masses (this is fate).

The point is that they are not technically Acer products. In fact, these are BiWin models, produced specifically for employ by the Predator Acer brand, and this kind makes sense.

When you think about investments in advance required to build one of the best SSDs, the cost is simply amazing. Even without research and development and production of own silicon and tokens, using Phison controllers on the secondary market, the cost of folding two and two together is impressively high. And again, this applies to the market segment, which really does not have the same robust margins of profits as other sectors. This is an extremely hard pill to swallow, a hard segment of the industry that can be obtained, and a growing challenge to even break this investment.

GM9000, despite at least partly associated with the GM7000, when it comes to the namesake, is effectively a copy of Black Opal X570 Pro Black Opal X570 Pro, which I checked at the beginning of this year. Although it has improved firmware, slightly better strength, lower temperatures and a teat with a better price. But that’s all. In addition, there are no stern changes.

You still understand that the one-man project M.2-2280 is still on Interconnect PCIe 5.0, it still has (I intend to call it legendary until someone tells me) the legendary 8-channel LPDDR4 controller, with 232-layer TLC Nand Flash, with Cushy 2GB from the LPDDR4 channel. The sequences are identical, with advertised speeds located 14 Gb/s, respectively and 13 Gb/s on the record, and all that she wrote.

Interestingly, Acer also announced an American price for this disk. Configuration 2 TB I have here is apparently available after USD 215, although like Black Opal X570, I have not seen it with any main retail sellers yet. However, it is possible to choose one of them in Great Britain for about 220 pounds, about 20 pounds cheaper than X570 PRO and 7 pounds cheaper than a widely available divine level WD Black SN8100.

So it is not very stimulating, but it has slightly different firmware on it, or at least as I know, because the number of performance is more than a margin of error in almost every scenario.

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X | ARIES: 64 GB (2x32GB) Team group T-Create Expert DDR5 @ 6000 C34 | GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super | Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX X870E-E Gaming WiFi/NZXT N9 X870E | CUP COOLER: Asus Rog Rejujin III 360 Argb Extreme | Dog: 1200W NZXT C1200 (2024) 80+ Gold | Chassis: Geometric future model 5

Interestingly, sequential results in Crystaldiskmark actually overcame Opal X570 PRO, in fact quite comfortable. From 14 278 Mb/s on reading and 13,469 Mb/SW, it gives us a total speed raise by about 2.5%, which does not sound too much, but in particular the record is faster by 400 Mb/s. 2.5-inch OldSchool speed SATA 3 SSD.

Random 4K performance, however, is another matter, and the disk is fighting both in reading and a general recording, supplementing 86 Mb/SW reading and 286 Mb/SW record here. Compare this with the X570, with its 91 Mb/SI 304 Mb/s, and there are clear differences between them again, even though Biwin is the main producer.

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This strange aged combination of NAND and a up-to-date controller equally shares its similarities while charging the game, and the Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers is a positive snail-paced time 8,025 seconds. Although relatively very swift, if you compare it with WD Black SN8100 West Digital, with a much stronger Sandisk flash, there is 18% difference in charging times. Ouch.

It is also not particularly cold, with temperatures at 72 ° C under load, which makes it one of the hotter drives, which I also tested, secondly only larger 4 TB and 8 TB solutions (here they look at you, WD Blue) or these early offers PCIE 5.0 from Crucial and Co. containing a much less productive Phison E26 controller. Basically, simply do not plug it into a laptop, console or anything without a heat sink, and you should be fine (it is not available for sale with one).

Like the X570 Pro, it is a bit average. Although he has these flashy, catching headlines, immense sequential numbers and some marketing puncture with the legendary Silicon Motion controller (not @ me), does not employ those critical areas that really benefit PC players. Regardless of whether it is simply the average random number of 4K, a decent delay or good loading times, all these results simply point to a disk that is a bit of a swing and a lack. One edge it has over its competitor X570 Pro is prices and a technically better warranty, but the fact is still circumscribed, and as long as these pain points are solved, it is hard to recommend.

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