Adata Dash Drive HE720 500 GB External Hard Drive Portable

hinnest of them all!!” certainly earns its self-praise. It’s not so much the device’s length and width that’s noteworthy—at 4.6 by 3.1 inches (HWD), it feels like the slightly bigger cousin of a typical smartphone. The HE720$116.99 at Amazon manages to pack a 500GB, 5,400rpm Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 drive within a case that’s barely thicker than the drive itself: an 0.28-inch thick hunk of storage with a tiny, 0.12-inch wrapper. To continue the smartphone analogy, the HE720 pretty much leveled out with an HTC One when we sat both side-by-side on a desk.

The HE720 comes in a brushed stainless steel exterior. Hold the drive in your hand, and a polished band of steel wraps around the device like a ribbon one might fasten around a birthday present. Perpendicular to this, a thin band of what we surmise is black plastic wraps around the drive’s circumference. It’s not just for looks: Though it’s a pleasant accent to the otherwise metallic drive, the protruding plastic provides a bit of protection for when one invariably drops the drive onto the floor. It’s similar in concept the protectors one might install on a car door to keep others from scratching it in a parking lot.

A bright, blue LED light sits on the top of the HE720, right in the lower-center of the panel. Right below it, on the device’s side, is where you’ll find its single connector: a USB 3.0 Micro B port, which connects to the 13-inch USB 3.0 cable that ships with the drive. While we’re used to short cables on external drives, we wish that the HE720’s was a bit longer than what Adata provides.

If you’re worried that losing this cable might cost you the usefulness of the drive (given that USB 3.0 Micro B cables are a bit rarer to have lying around than a typical micro USB cable), we have somewhat good news. We connected the drive up to our USB 3.0-based desktop using a standard micro USB 2.0 cable and had absolutely zero problems accessing our files. The caveat? It took the drive more than twice the amount of time to make it through our 1.22GB drag-and-drop test (33.8 seconds) using a standard micro-USB cable than the USB 3.0 Micro B cable (14.2 seconds). The HE720 has a three-year warranty, good for pocket drives and matching that of similar drives like the Toshiba.

The ADATA DashDrive Elite HE720 external hard drive is a USB 3.0 compatible device and the world’s thinnest of its kind. The metal brushed metal exterior and elegant overall appearance enhance the fashion sense of technological lives. It represents the unique taste and professional image of successful business people. The world’s First 8.9mm Ultra-slim external drive. Sporting a brushed stainless steel surface, and with a record-breaking slim profile of only 8.9mm thickness, the Dash Drive elite HE720 demonstrates once again the ADATA’s consistently strong ability to combine top performance with style. Stainless steel case with 9H scratch resistance. The brushed metal case with protective layer provides 9H scratch resistance, which prevents damage and marring even after long-term use. “One Touch Backup” makes backup job more easy. The Dash Drive elite HE720 features “One touch backup” function which automatically backs up and synchronizes data with one easy touch. The HE720 is equipped with a bright blue LED indicator which shines through the transmission process to indicate power and data transfer status. Large capacities of 500GB, the equivalent of 100 DVD movie disc storage, means that consumers don’t have to worry about insufficient hard drive capacity when performing backups, meeting the storage needs for high-quality, high-resolution audio and video content.Three Times Faster than USB 2.0. The DashDrive Elite HE720’s USB 3.0 interface offers transfer efficiency up to three times that of older USB 2.0 devices, but retains full backward compatibility with earlier versions. Compared to USB 2.0, in file read/write or data backup, transmission time can significantly reduced up to 70%. Even for large individual files, complete backups can be completed more quickly and easier, which for business people translates to a threefold increase in productivity! Complete Information Security.