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The ADATA Nobility N005 Pro 64 GB arrives in a small white box with the multicoloured bird mascot visible on the left of the box. ADATA highlight the maximum possible speeds of 180 MB/s on the front.
The rear of the box lists specifications.
There is really no bundle with the drive, just a sheet of paper and the drive protected within a tough plastic shipping enclosure.
The drive itself is enclosed within a tough, coloured aluminum enclosure. The front lists the name, interface speed and capacity. There is also ‘PRO' branding underneath the size information.
The top cap removes easily and can be attached to the rear of the drive while in use. I don't know how many of these I have lost over the years, probably hundreds. The blue coloured connector is an immediate giveaway in regards to the USB 3.0 interface.
Today we are going to compare the Nobility N005 Pro performance against a USB 3.0 based Kingston 64GB DT Ultimate drive and a self powered 2.5 inch 1TB USB 3.0 Toshiba external hard drive. Both of these products are used daily in our offices.
It is fast, but am I missing something, it looks to be really expensive.
These are great drives, but I would expect this to cost £130 at least. its SSD pricing.
Looks good, but the write performance is a bit worse. I think the technology with these flash chips is much much slower for writing anyway which would verify the findings.
Looking pretty good. I was a little surprised at how large of a gap there is between the read and write speed of this drive. My last gen 16GB ADATA USB 3.0 drive can keep up with the write speeds of this drive. Obviously not the read speeds but for what I do both are just about equally important as I’m generally transferring customers’ data from computer to computer or pulling data off of another HDD.
Paka, USB 3.0 devices have steadily come down in price since this review was posted.