Zotac ZBox Nano AD10 Plus Review

We noticed throughout testing that the hard drive performance was very sluggish so we decided to break with traditional and run some of our favourite synthetic tests to measure overall performance.

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64.

The performance results are very poor indeed, with sequential read and write speeds scoring between 80MB/s and 60 MB/s. This would validate our real world findings of a ‘sluggish' system. 512k performance is very weak indeed.

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ATTO verifies the CrystalDiskMark results, indicating performance variables between 60MB/s and 80MB/s. This is a rather weak 5,400 rpm 2.5 inch drive. While we appreciate that 7,200 rpm drives are slightly more expensive, we would have opted for a smaller capacity unit to balance the price point.

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