Grab this £138 2TB Acer Predator SSD before flash prices soar further — fast Gen 4 speeds make this an essential upgrade for your gaming PC
Grab this 2TB M.2 2280 SSD at an affordable price, while you can
Flash prices are skyrocketing. With the price of memory and storage now heading into the stratosphere, it’s important to lock in on a great storage deal like this one when it appears. Luckily, Amazon have dropped the price of this 2TB Acer Predator SSD to less than £140, making it a great price for a branded TLC SSD with this amount of storage right now.
While it’s grim to think that SSDs were a lot cheaper earlier in the year, prices like this won’t stick around for long, either. This Acer Predator GM7000 drive is now priced at £137.96 on Amazon’s website, but alternative drives with the same capacity, like the Samsung 990 Pro, are on sale for well over £200. This might be the last chance to score a branded SSD with 2TB of storage for less than £150 for some time.
The 2TB Acer Predator GM7000 is a Biwin-manufactured M.2 2280 NVMe SSD with sequential read and write speeds of 7,450 and 6,900 MB/s each. This 2TB model has an endurance rating of 1,300 TBW and comes with a five-year warranty.
In our Acer Predator GM7000 review, we concluded that this drive was a good all-rounder, sitting middle-of-the-pack for performance at the time, describing it as powerful and particularly compelling as a 2TB drive. Acer’s partnership with Biwin means it produces these drives, although they carry the Acer Predator branding.
This M.2 2280 NVMe drive offers PCIe 4.0 speeds, so it isn’t the fastest drive you can buy these days, but it does offer sequential read and write speeds of 7,400 and 6,700MB/s each. Those speeds compare favourably to the Samsung 990 Pro that we mentioned above, which is still the fastest Gen 4 SSD out there and one of our best SSD recommendations. It uses TLC NAND flash modules, made by Micron. This gives it a distinct advantage over cheaper QLC drives, which suffer from lower endurance ratings and slower raw write speeds.
In contrast, the Samsung 990 Pro offers read and write speeds of 7,450 and 6,900 MB/s apiece, and while there are other factors to consider, like sustained write performance and overall drive endurance, the sub-£140 price makes this Acer Predator rival a far more attractive option at the moment, especially if you're capped at PCIe 4.0 speeds. As far as endurance goes, this 2TB model is rated for 1,300 TBW (terabytes written), which sits well against its rivals, while a lengthy five-year warranty should offer additional peace of mind.
With memory manufacturers warning that prices will continue to rise, waiting isn’t an option unless you’re prepared to pay more. This £137.96 2TB Acer Predator GM7000 SSD is down to an affordable price, and offers a decent amount of storage, but expect it to sell out quickly.
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Ben Stockton is a deals writer at Tom’s Hardware. He's been writing about technology since 2018, with bylines at PCGamesN, How-To Geek, and Tom’s Guide, among others. When he’s not hunting down the best bargains, he’s busy tinkering with his homelab or watching old Star Trek episodes.