ADATA Nobility Series NH01 USB 3.0 500Gb External HDD Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2010-11-08

The Nobility Series NH01 External HDD, is an interesting backup/data transfer solution from ADATA, using USB 3.0, but also fully USB 2.0 compatible. The enclosure has a professional look and the product itself is excellent for people that are frequently on the go.

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Test Bench and Extra Info

The testbench was composed from the following hardware:

 

CPU: Intel I7 Retail @ stock

Motherboard: Foxconn BloodRage with G42 BIOS

RAM: 3x2GB Patriot PVT36G1600LLK 1600MHz

Video: Sparkle GTX 470 with stock and OMNI A.L.C.

Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

 

ADATA offers for download for free the HDDtoGO application, which has similar features as the UFDtoGO application, for the USB Flash Drives:

 

The drive arrives unformatted; we can easily format and partition it with the Windows Disk Management utility:

 

 

Here is the total free space reported after the drive has been formatted NTFS:

 

 

With Everest Ultimate Edition, we can extract more information from the drive and we find out that the HDD inside is manufactured by Samsung (model Spinpoint M7):

 

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