The Acer GM3500 is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on April 21st, 2021. It is available in capacities ranging from 512 GB to 1 TB. This page reports specifications for the 512 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Acer GM3500 interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the SM2262ENG from Silicon Motion, a DRAM cache chip is available. Acer has installed 96-layer TLC NAND flash on the GM3500, the flash chips are made by Micron. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are processed more quickly. The cache is sized at 75 GB, once it is full, writes complete at 500 MB/s. The GM3500 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 3,400 MB/s and 2,400 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 190K for reads and 350K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 65 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Acer guarantees an endurance rating of 300 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.