The Acer Predator GM7 does perform really well in terms of performance, even if we are not dealing with a DRAM-cached SKU, but one which uses HMB, while the operating temperatures are really good, allowing it to function in systems with less-than-ideal airflow in the drive area such as miniPCs, laptops or the PS5 console.

When the pseudoSLC cache is fully filled, the transfer rate did not drop under 600MB/s and often recovered up to 1GB/s even after writing over 2TB of data continuously to it; this is possible thanks to the technology used, but also the drive firmware.

In the HDTune writes workload, we did note a very sudden drop under 400MB/s, due to the drive in pSLC recovery mode, which cuts a bit of performance, but this won’t be visible in regular Windows Explorer transfers:

The Acer Predator GM7 4TB can be currently found online for about 292 Euros and is backed by a 5-year warranty. The TBW is rated at 2400, enough not to worry about data safety.

ACER Predator GM7 PCIe 4.0 M.2 4TB SSD is Recommended for:

We would like to thank BIWIN Storage Technology for making this review possible!