PERFORMANCE
Test Setup
Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP7
Memory: Kingston HyperX 10th Anniversary Edition DDR3-2400
Storage: Kingston HyperX SSD 120GB
PSU: Seasonic X-760W
Cooling: Corsair H100 (Max)
Case: CoolerMaster HAF922
Monitor: LG E2350V
VGA: Sapphire HD7970 Dual-X
ATTO Disk Benchmark benchmarks a drive’s read and write speeds with increasing file sizes and graphs them. Many companies use ATTO as their reference in their marketing.
ADATA doesn’t state the rating for the DashDrive Durable HD710. Basing on our ATTO performance, the drive has a promising 105/103MB read/write performance. Pretty average and nothing really surprising for a portable HDD.
For potential write testing, HD Tune was used to measure the drive’s write performance. Again, we focus on the average results for real-world relevance.
Now we pit the ADATA DashDrive Durable HD710 against others in its class. The HD710 manages to score a good 2nd spot just 3MBs below the WD My Passport.
We’ve taken our compression test files, a collection of images, documents and other files ranging from 1KB to 50MB amounting to 3,310 files for 2.49GB and then a large 12GB MKV file.
This test shows us that the DashDrive Durable HD710 doesn’t particularly do well in mixed files scenario particularly those with a lot of small files. We can see the drive trail by a large margin in the mixed file tests but it does redeem itself nicely in the large file testing.
Average performance here from the HD710 in USB2.0 mode. We give it props for actually sustaining it speeds and not having drops in read/write performance even in this state.