ADATA SD700 External 256GB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. ADATA SD700 256GB3. ATTO/CrystalDiskMark/AS SSD4. Throughput5. Real Life File Transfers6. Closing Thoughts7. View All Pages

To test real life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of the drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of .png, raw and .jpeg images).
10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).

As you might expect from a drive using a SSD, the SD700 sailed through the real life transfer test, dropping below 100MB/s just once, reading the very small files of the 50GB file folder.

When it comes to the actual time taken for the transfers to take place, the advantage of having combining an SSD with a USB3.1 interface in the SD700 can be seen by the fact it takes a mere eight and a half minutes to transfer a 50GB folder of small files to the drive.

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