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Apacer's other SSDs with 'cutting-edge specs' aren't actually its quickest

Apacer AS2280PRU and AS2280P4U Pro SSDs in front of a gaming monitor.

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Apacer's marketing squad gets an A for effort and enthusiasm in regards to the company's unused AS2280P4U and AS2280P4U Pro model SSDs, which purportedly offer "cutting-edge specs that will rock the gaming market." But peradventur a D minus for accuracy. Forget the marketplace as a whole, these aren't even the fastest SSDs in Apacer's stable.

That's not to say they'ray sad—we haven't tested these models yet. Simply they're non along the bleeding edge of storage. Both are PCIe 3.0 models, with rated sequential say and write speeds of up to 3,500MB/s and 3,000MB/s, respectively. Those are fast in their personal right, but non worthy of the tagline, "Being the best is just the beginning."

The fastest SSDs on the market have breached the 7,000MB/s market. Like Adata's XPG Gammix S70—it's rated to read data at up to 7,400MB/s, and write data at up to 6,400MB/s.

That's non an outlier, either. There are a couple of early PCIe 4.0 SSDs that are roughly as fast, so much as Seagate's Firecuda 530, which is rated to deliver up to 7,300MB/s of learn performance and adequate 6,900MB/s of write performance. And while Apacer doesn't offer anything quite that fast, information technology does carry a PCIe 4.0 SSD rated to hit 5,000MB/s reads and 4,400MB/s writes.

Anyhow, while not film editing-edge (even inside Apacer's have catalogue), Apacer's raw SSDs look like serviceable solutions if you neglect the marketing hype (matchless of the mathematical product pages touts "the latest generation PCIe Gen3x4 speed" as a feature). Both are offered in 2TB, 1TB, 512GB, and 256GB capacities, and both are backed by a pentad-yr warrantee.

What separates the two is cooling, The Pro model adds an aluminum heatsink to the conflate, which Apacer claims reduces temps by up to 25%. In theory, a cooler-moving SSD (and specifically the controller chip) leave hold back peak performance for longer periods of clip, before giving way to throttling.

There's atomic number 102 note of how so much the AS2280P4U and AS2280P4U Pro will cost or when they will be available, and they're non yet listed at places same Virago and Newegg. As a point of reference, the 1TB WD Black SN750, one of the best SSDs for gambling, fetches around $129 on Amazon.

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