Acer FA100 1TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Acer FA100 1TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. Throughput12. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark13. Performance Stability14. Drive Temperatures15. Real Life File Testing16. Closing Thoughts17. View All Pages

4K Sustained Random Read.
The setup for the tests is listed below.
Transfer Request Size: 4KB, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.

Officially the 1TB Acer FA100 is rated at up to 325,000 IOPS for reads. With our 4-treaded testing, we could confirm that maximum figure and indeed improve on it, with a score of 342,853 IOPS (QD32).

4K Sustained Random Read v QD compared.

At QDs 1&2, the 1TB FA100 is the fastest consumer Gen3 drive we've seen to date. At QD4 the drive drops to second place and the fall continues as the queue depths deepen until the end of the test at QD32 where the drive sits in tenth place in the results chart.

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