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Acer's SA100 drive comes in a compact box with an image of the drive on the front below which is a sticker carrying the drive's capacity. Above the image are four icons representing enhanced performance, the fact that the drive comes with a 3-year warranty, that it's lightweight and it comes with free cloning software (by downloading Acronis True Image OEM from the Acer website). The rear of the box has a small list of the drive specifications.
The Acer SA100 uses a standard 2.5in, 7mm format and is housed in a plastic enclosure that has four metal plates threaded for mounting screws.
The components for the 1.92TB SA100 sit on a tiny PCB.
One side of the PCB holds two NAND packages (coded BW29F4T08GMLBE) while the other side of the PCB holds the Maxio MAS0902A-B2C controller and another two NAND packages.
The Maxio MAS0902A-B2C is a very compact (9mm x 9mm) DRAM-less design 4-channel controller using two computing cores supporting up to 4TB of 2D MLC/TLC 3D MLC/TLC or QLC NAND via a Toggle3.0/ONFi4.0 interface. It uses Maxio's own Agile ECC 2 error correction and WriteBooster 2 SLC caching technologies.
