Acer Predator DDR5 and NVMe Products Revealed, PC Giant Makes Inroads to DIY Market

[btarunr]

Acer at the 2023 International CES showed off its latest lineup of memory and storage products targeting the DIY PC enthusiast market segment under its high-end Predator brand. Leading the booth is the Vesta II line of DDR5 memory modules featuring a high-end product design, and RGB LED lighting. The one shown to us featured a rather modest DDR5-5200 speed and 2x 16 GB density, but the company assured it is spreading the lineup to higher frequencies. The Pallas II line of performance-segment memory targeting creators, for example, does DDR5-6000.

A star attraction in the booth was the Predator GM7 M.2 NVMe SSD. Built in the M.2-2280 form-factor, the drive features a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 + NVMe 2.0 host interface, and combines a Maxiotech MAP1602 controller with YMTC 232-layer 3D TLC NAND flash based on the Xtacking 3.0 architecture. The drive offers sequential transfer speeds of up to 7400 MB/s reads, with up to 6300 MB/s writes, and comes in sizes of 512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB, priced at USD $49.90, $89.90, and $159.99, respectively. Acer is backing these drives with a 5-year warranty.



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[TumbleGeorge]

This new Predator series SSDs looks very good price/capacity/speed.

 

[TheLostSwede]

This new Predator series SSDs looks very good price/capacity/speed.

But would you trust a controller from a largely unproved company and NAND flash from another largely unproven company, both from the PRC?

 

[TumbleGeorge]

But would you trust a controller from a largely unproved company and NAND flash from another largely unproven company, both from the PRC?

Yes. I have not any sensitive information and not work for government or for private company.

 

[trsttte]

Yes. I have not any sensitive information and not work for government or for private company.

It's not a matter of sensitive information, just of wanting to keep the data intact (unproven reliability of market newcomer)

 

[TumbleGeorge]

It's not a matter of sensitive information, just of wanting to keep the data intact (unproven reliability of market newcomer)

I think that this Western world paranoia is a mental illness that I do not suffer from.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Yes. I have not any sensitive information and not work for government or for private company.

I meant more as in, how long will it work as intended?

I think that this Western world paranoia is a mental illness that I do not suffer from.

Uhm, no, I've seen so much cheap flash memory from the PRC that just randomly fails for no good reason.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Uhm, no, I've seen so much cheap flash memory from the PRC that just randomly fails for no good reason.

Hmm in this news has near future series SSDs which is not reviewed yet. In what sense do you claim they fail?

 

[TheLostSwede]

Hmm in this news has near future series SSDs which is not reviewed yet. In what sense do you claim they fail?

I claim that PRC made NAND flash is of poor quality. This is based on experience with eMMC from PRC makers.

The controller I'm concerned about firmware/hardware bugs, simply because PRC companies don't tend to have the same quality standards as most non PRC companies.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

So far I see nothing more than conjecture. I don't want to go into any more depth unless you have facts at hand to make an argument with if you wish. Based on facts, these offer prices are the best(so far) in terms of price/terabyte/performance ratio.

 

[trsttte]

When it comes to storage, it's guilty until proven innocent as far as i'm concerned.

 

[Scrizz]

When it comes to storage, it's guilty until proven innocent as far as i'm concerned.

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