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Once again, we are tackling yet another SSD manufactured by BIWIN and, when we check out Amazon, we can actually find the ‘FA’ line of SSDs available for sale in Canada and the USA. BIWIN is the official licensee and manufacturer of Acer and HP brand products and, as we had stated in our review of the BIWIN NV7400 and Predator GM9000 SSDs, BIWIN is expanding in its own name and can be found in Japan and the UK, with North America in sight sometime this year.
We will also mention that this SSD is using QLC memory and, just as TLC has withstood a rather rough entry into the SSD market before it, QLC has grown and found success as well, since 2018 in fact. Would you believe that QLC memory is common place in the enterprise market and a very strong business case for modern day data centers?
The Acer FA200 is a PCIe 4.0 x4 (4-lane) NVMe 2.0 form factor 2280 (22mm wide x 80mm long) that is available in capacities of 512GB, 1, 2 and 4TB. This is a very cool running SSD and is fully PS5 compatible. It also includes a free copy of Acronis True Image for migration of your Acer SSDs which can be found here.
Specifications detail speeds for the FA200 at up to 7200MB/s read and 6200MB/s write and 1000K read and write IOPS. The Acer FA200 has an industry leading limited warranty of 5-years and endurance of 250TBW for the 500GB which doubles for every capacity upgrade. Our 4TB version has an endurance of 2000TBW.
Something we have seen in all of the BIWIN manufactured products reviewed in the past week is that they all have what is described as a ‘graphene pad’, or thermal heatsink, to dissipate heat for better SSD endurance. Acer also speaks to very stringent testing of their FA200 by using high quality NAND wafers and testing their SSDs with 300 hours of continuous read and write testing, abnormal power-loss test 3000 times and a sleep-wake test of 6000 times.
The Acer FA200 contains the Maxiotek MAP1602A ‘Falcon Lite’ 4-channel controller which is based on TSMC’s 12nm process. It is a DRAM-less SSD that contains 4-pieces of YMTC QLC x3 232-layer 1TB NAND flash memory chips, running at 2400MT/s.
The only complete line of capacities we could find at the time of this report was on Amazon UK, but if you select that link, it should automatically default to your local Amazon. Pricing we found at the time of this report in US dollars was $44.41 (512GB), $76.26 (1TB), $126.91 (2TB) and $271.97 (4TB). Check Amazon USA for availability and pricing.