Performance

We used the following devices for our comparison:

• A-Data Football Disk 512 MB
• A-Data MyFlash PD7 1 GB
• A-Data PD17 Flash Drive 1 GB
• A-Data PD18 Flash Drive 2 GB
• A-Data Pirates Flash Drive 2 GB
• A-Data RB19 Flash Drive 1 GB
• A-Data Nobility N702 Flash Drive 4 GB
• A-Data Sport S701 Flash Drive 2 GB
• ATP ToughDrive Mini 2 GB
• ATP ToughDrive 2 GB
• Corsair Flash Voyager 512 MB
• Generic Stick USB 1.1 256 MB
• OCZ Mini Kart 1 GB
• OCZ Rally 1 GB
• OCZ ATV Turbo 4 GB
• OCZ Roadster 1 GB
• PQI Intelligent Drive i810 1 GB
• PQI Travelling Disk i221 1 GB
• Sandisk Cruzer Micro 2 GB
• Sandisk Cruzer Titanium 512 MB
• Super DH Series 200x 1 GB
• Super Talent RBST 1 GB
• Thermaltake MUSE external HDD enclosure
• Verbatim Store'n'Go Pro 2 GB

The A-DATA Sport S701 manages a very respectable 23.9 MB/s of raw read performance. This places the drive right in the upper bulk of our chart. This is not a disappointment, as the drive is not intended to be blazing fast, but to look good on your key chain.


The S701 shines when it comes to access times. The drive manages 0.6 ms, which is well below the 1.0 ms required for Windows Vista ReadyBoost Certification.


ATTO confirms the read speeds we obtained with HD Tach. The write speed of just above 6 MB/s is nothing out of the ordinary as well. This speed was obtained on a nForce 680i board.