The Acer FA100 is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on April 30th, 2021. It is available in capacities ranging from 128 GB to 2 TB. This page reports specifications for the 1 TB variant. With the rest of the system, the Acer FA100 interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the IG5216 (Shasta+) from InnoGrit, a DRAM cache is not available. Acer has installed 96-layer TLC NAND flash on the FA100, the flash chips are made by Micron. Please note that this SSD is sold in multiple variants with different NAND flash or controller, which could affect performance, the "Notes" section at the end of this page has more info. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are handled more quickly. The cache is sized at 218 GB, once it is full, writes complete at 1000 MB/s. Copying data out of the SLC cache (folding) completes at 230 MB/s. The FA100 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 3,300 MB/s and 2,700 MB/s write; random IO reaches 325K IOPS for read and 293K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 105 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Acer guarantees an endurance rating of 600 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.