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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.
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.