ADATA DashDrive Air AE800 500GB Review

Test Procedure

Whilst this is an external hard drive, its primary focus is on its wireless connectivity on mobile devices. Due to this we will still have a look at the drive’s performance when connected via USB, albeit in a lighter fashion, but we will also look at the software and the drives settings pages to get connected.

Test system:

• Asus Maximus V Formula
• Intel Core i7 3770k
• Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz 16GB (2GB for Intel NASPT)
• Corsair H100i
• Corsair HX1050W
• Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD
• Asus V247

We would like to thank AOC, Corsair, Kingston and Lian Li for supplying us with our test system components.

Many different software applications are also used to gain the broadest spectrum of results, which allows for the fairest testing possible.

Software used:

• CrystalDiskMark
• Anvil’s Storage Utilities Release 1
• ATTO Disk Benchmark