Acer FA100 M.2 2280 SSD 1TB: PCIe 3.0 NVMe with HMB & SLC Cache, Up to 3500 MB/s Read Speed, PC Internal Solid State Drive for Laptop & Desktop Upgrade

I bought these before prices rose so steeply and for ~£30 each, they're really great value. I installed one in an old Intel NUC I wanted to install Linux on. Installation was simple and the drive fit perfectly. The performance is good enough for my use case and I'd say for most people it's fast enough. The 512GB capacity is enough for basic office use but will probably be a bit limiting if you're looking to install more than one AAA game on it. I've not noticed and issues with heat in use but I'm only using it for basic tasks like web browsing and some light office tasks. Overall, at the price I paid, I think this drive is excellent value for money.

Ordered a few days ago to use as a secondary drive in my laptop. Honestly, it's perfect for me. Budget-friendly - you're not paying £75-80 for a 1TB Samsung, WD or SK hynix NVMe SSD, and you're also not navigating the minefield of dodgy yet cheap SSDs from brands like Fanxiang, Kingston, ADATA or Teamgroup. Decent warranty on it too - 5 years or 600TBW, which is great for what I'd call a budget SSD. You don't normally get that - avg for 1TB budget SSDs are around 200-300TBW. So hopefully the higher TBW rating should translate to better quality. Hopefully their customer service is decent in case I need to claim on the warranty. Fast and reliable too - so far, it's holding up great. Speeds are noticeably faster than my old SATA SSD, so it's all good there. Games run faster and are less "choppy" than they were, so that's a bonus. Not sure what else to put here except that it currently seems like a great SSD to get, definitely comparable to some of the Gen3 SSDs from Samsung, WD and SK hynix. Would certainly pick again instead of one from Kingston, Fanxiang, ADATA or any of the other no-name brands. If anything changes however, this review will be updated to reflect it.

I bought this as I was looking for a cheap Gen 3 NVMe from a reliable brand to use as a read cache in my Synology DS1821+, and for 512GB at £29.99 (Feb 2025) this was just the ticket. It’s actually massively over-spec’d for my use case - you can’t get much lighter duty for an NVMe SSD than a read cache - and of course it’s handled the job effortlessly. It’s been running 24 hours a day with zero issues and has made day-to-day interactions with my NAS noticeably snappier over my 2.5Gb network. Excellent performance, no fuss, and unbeatable value for the price. Purchased February 2025 for £29.99.

Great SSD managed to upgrade my laptop from 500Gb to this 1TB one which is great as I was running out of space. It’s just as fast and seems fine so far and was quite easy to fit into my laptop after cloning my drive. Recommend it and found I have one spare memory slot. I didn’t use Acer software used EaseUs but was quite easy.

Really excellent product - very easy to install in my laptop and it works perfectly. I highly recommend.

Used in first PC build. It works. It has the storage that was advertised. Idk. It's great. Idk exactly how nvme SSD's work so I can't say much.

Worked perfectly, as expected..

I bought this for my son's gaming laptop so we could install Linux on it and use that instead of Windows (now that the support for Windows 10 has ended and we don't want to use Windows 11). Acer is a respected manufacturer and this drive has got good reviews. I went with the 512GB size because that is twice what the Windows 10 drive has and getting something bigger did not seem worth it. Linux installed on the drive perfectly and my son has been using it for several weeks now with no problems. There may well be quicker drives out there, but this one is at least as fast as the one that was in the laptop originally and so plenty good enough as a replacement.