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Adata T703 2GB Mickey Mouse Flash Drive
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Sunday, February 17, 2008
Technical Specifications
The T703 Flash Drive is currently available in 2 different colors (Grape / White) and currently available in a single storage size of 2GB. The interface is USB 2.0 and fully supports Windows Readyboost technology making speed and data transfer extremely fast.
The drive featured in this review is a 2GB unit in the Fancy White color.
The drive featured in this review is a 2GB unit in the Fancy White color.
HD Tach 3
We’re using HD Tach 3 for our benchmarking. HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark designed to test the various aspects of storage devices such as HDDs, RAID arrays, Removable drives etc. The results we are interested in here include the Random Access Time and Average Read Speed.
The results of our benchmarks are typical of ReadyBoost enabled USB drives, the Random Access time is extremely fast meaning that finding files will take considerably less time over other sources like a Hard Drive. Throughput was a bit of a shock. We fully expected performance to be equal to the S701 but as the charts show the T703 was quite a bit faster.
In both of our HD Tach tests the Adata T703 came out on par or well ahead of the control samples, The drive had the fastest Sequential Read speeds of them all and an extremely low access time. Keep in mind that if you are simply storing files on this drive you’re not likely to see any sort of performance gain from the lower access time. The benefit comes when you're running programs from your flash drive or using it as a ReadyBoost device.
Now for the ever popular list of Good things and Bad things.
In both of our HD Tach tests the Adata T703 came out on par or well ahead of the control samples, The drive had the fastest Sequential Read speeds of them all and an extremely low access time. Keep in mind that if you are simply storing files on this drive you’re not likely to see any sort of performance gain from the lower access time. The benefit comes when you're running programs from your flash drive or using it as a ReadyBoost device.
Now for the ever popular list of Good things and Bad things.
Good Things
Exciting design
Small Size
Fast!
Unique Disney branding
Stylish to match any decor
Mickey charm and carrying chain
Multi purpose device (photos, mirror, keychain, cellphone charm)
Small Size
Fast!
Unique Disney branding
Stylish to match any decor
Mickey charm and carrying chain
Multi purpose device (photos, mirror, keychain, cellphone charm)
Bad Things
Small items are easy to lose
Could pose a choking risk to small children often associated with Disney products.
Likely to be stolen by cats looking for something to play with.
Could pose a choking risk to small children often associated with Disney products.
Likely to be stolen by cats looking for something to play with.
Ninjalane Rating
We would like to thank Adata for helping to make this review possible.
