Acer simply unveiled its newest gaming PC vary, the Predator Orion 7000, and together with all the same old inside {hardware} choices you would possibly count on, the corporate has supplied up an additional characteristic that could be a new one to us. This new Acer gaming PC features a pop-out, hot-swappable SSD.
With Acer‘s Orion 5000 already our prime choose for the perfect gaming PC you should purchase – as a pre-made system that it – the Orion 7000 will little doubt ship the kind of stability of efficiency and affordability as its brethren. Nevertheless, it’s actually the swappable SSD that’s the intriguing bit right here.
The system works fairly merely. There’s a small part on the highest of the PC case that has a flip you may elevate as much as free the drive then you definately simply pull the drive out. It’s so simple as that.
Besides, if you really pull the drive out you see that it’s probably not an SSD as you’ll usually consider them for a PC – i.e. an M.2 drive like all of the fashions we suggest in our greatest gaming SSD information – however as a substitute the drive is housed in a steel casing with a USB-C socket on its finish. Housed within the depth of the outlet that the drive is pulled from is then a USB-C plug into which the meeting plugs.
It shouldn’t be stunning that that is how Acer has needed to implement a hot-swappable SSD as a result of M.2 SSDs aren’t designed to be hot-swappable, each bodily and by way of probably interrupted knowledge transfers to the drive. Nevertheless, we had been none the much less a bit disillusioned to seek out what was described as a hot-swappable SSD as being simply an exterior drive.
What we’ve but to verify with Acer, although, is that if it’s a regular M.2 SSD that’s housed contained in the detachable module. If the corporate has made a system that makes it simple to purchase a brand new M.2 SSD, plug it into this exterior housing and add it to your system the place you may make knowledge transfers to it earlier than swapping out the drive internally, that might really be a extremely helpful improve assistant.
The remainder of the Acer Predator Orion 7000 is a great enough-looking gaming PC with a facet glass home windows and pre-installed model of the corporate’s new Predator CycloneX 360 AIO cooler that makes use of a intelligent airflow system the place the gaps between the three followers have been eliminated to permit airflow to maneuver throughout the followers. As much as Nvidia RTX 4090 GPUs will also be configured within the new methods.
Pricing and a launch date for the brand new PCs has but to be confirmed however will little doubt be arriving quickly.
For extra on from Acer, take a look at its just-announced Acer Nitro 7 Blaze handheld and its new DualPlay gaming laptop computer idea, each of that are being proven off on the IFA commerce present in Berlin the place we’re reporting from the present ground.
