CONCLUSION

   The Predator GM7000 M.2 PCIe 4.0 (Gen4) M.2 NVMe v1.4 SSD by BIWIN is the very first model to arrive in the lab that uses Innogrit’ s IG5236 eight-channel NAND flash controller so i was very curious to see how it would perform. Well, as you can tell from my charts the drive doesn’t disappoint since it produces some of the best read & write performance numbers I’ve seen to date. Now it’s not quite “better” compared to models that use the E18 controller by Phison (together with 176-layer NAND flash by Micron) but it does trade blows with them for the most part and that’s plenty in my book. Unfortunately, just like with most E18 based drives that have copper and/or aluminum stickers the graphene-laced foam pad used on the GM7000 was designed for light to medium loads so there clearly was quite a bit of thermal throttling during my IOMeter SNIA tests.

   Price is the one thing I was worried BIWIN would not pay much attention at but I was wrong since at the time of this review the Acer Predator GM7000 2TB M.2 NVMe v1.4 SSD retails for just USD264.99 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and for 300.15Euros inside the EU (Amazon.de). This puts the Predator GM7000 on the lower end of numerous drives by Phison and other brands so I do expect it will do good in terms of sales. Bottom line the Predator GM7000 2TB has it all, performance, endurance, warranty and price and for that it gets the Platinum Award.

PROS

- Excellent Performance Levels
- Endurance (1300TBW / 2 Million Hours MTBF)
- 5 Year Limited Warranty
- Graphene Laced Foam Pad
- Price (For Some)

CONS

- Thermal Throttling (During SNIA Tests)