ADATA Nobility N005 Pro 64 GB (USB 3.0 Flash Drive) Review

1. Introduction2. ADATA Nobility N005 Pro 64 GB3. Real World Performance Testing4. Synthetic Performance Testing5. Closing Thoughts6. View All Pages

The ADATA Nobility N005 Pro 64 GB is one of the fastest flash drives we have tested, maintaining read speeds over 170 MB/s with our real world and synthetic testing. It is significantly faster than the last generation 64GB Kingston USB 3.0 DT Ultimate drive we used to compare against today.

As a fast storage medium it is ideal when paired up with larger files, such as multimedia based data. We noticed a large write performance penalty when copying across a mixed folder of smaller, mixed file types. It is perfectly capable when reading them back, but the initial drive write procedure is slower than we would have expected.

We have no indication yet of UK pricing but the previous version of the drive, which is rated to 85 MB/s is available for over £100 today. We would expect a price premium, but information at this time is limited.

Pros:

• Lightning quick.
• great for big files.
• looks good.

Cons:

• poor bundle.
• much slower when writing smaller files.

Kitguru says: Well worth a look, if you have the funds.

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