ADATA Dash Drive Elite HE720 Slim External Drive Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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The Arc midi R2 by fractal design features massive air flow and highly
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flexible liquid cooling support click now to learn more external hard drives
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are pretty difficult to get excited about these days uh especially with ssds
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being so much faster and more rugged so
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you can like Chuck them around and all that stuff but is there still a place
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for the hard drive well depends who you ask ad data obvious vious ly plays in
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both the external hard drive and USB storage spaces and they've also got ssds
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as well so apparently they still think there's a place for the hard drive and
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this one right here is pretty unique so it has a three-year warranty it uses
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super speed USB 3 however that will be bottlenecked by the hard drive itself
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inside and it uses the new slim form
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factor hard drives that are available on the market so both WD and Seagate have
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been making a ton of noise about these Slimmer form factor drives so one tab
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Drive drives or up to 1 TB drives available in a 7 mil form factor and
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then up to 500 gig drives available in a 5 mil form factor so this guy right here
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I don't know what drives in there but it's only 8.9 mm thick which means it's
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definitely not a 9 and a half mm drive
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it uses a stainless steel enclosure so
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you can actually see it's got a beautiful brushed finish on it in
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addition to the mirror finish that has the Ad h720 Logo in the middle of it
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then we can go ahead and flip it over it actually has some weight to it which I
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don't mind for a product like this where it makes it feel more quality as opposed
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to making it feel heavy it's not the kind of thing that you'll be carrying
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around you know like a phone like hey you know oh my ARM sure getting tired
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from holding this up and it's actually not that much heavier than a smartphone anyway I love metal finishes we're going
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to go ahead and pop out my HTC1 so we can do a quick size comparison just to
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give you guys some idea how slim this is
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um again depending who you ask the hard drive is very much not dead
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and they are determined to keep updating it for modern devices so there you go
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there's that size comparison at the back you find the OneTouch backup Button as
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well as the usb3 interface and that is
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pretty much all there is to say about it physically so I guess uh it comes down
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to software so they include One Touch backup software they also include their
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OS to go utility which is uh I mean
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honestly it's nothing that special all it does is it takes an operating system
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that you have on dis and it converts it
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to this drive so you can install over USB okay you can do it manually but okay
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if you don't want to figure out how to do that it's kind of Handy to have that but they also have their HDD to go which
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allows you to take around some of the settings from your computer plug it in
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and then use it as um as kind of like a
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no Trace Left Behind way of using that computer so it'll bring over your
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favorites it'll allow you to sync the desktop as well as my documents folder
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and then once you unplug all of that goes away with so I think that's pretty
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neat as well the stainless steel finish has a nine hardness scratch resistance
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so I don't know I'm kind of tempted to like try it out now so at least if we
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take something like let's take like the end of a let's take the end of a pen
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here see if we can oh yeah we can scratch it it's not that
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bad accessory wise it includes a simple
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USB 3 A2 micro connector as well I'm not
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a bigan of micro connectors but I understand why on a super slim product
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like this it's been used as well as a little plastic carrying case so you can
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uh here you go keep it safe mind you to
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me you'd have to make a pretty strong argument for taking a nice slim sexy
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product that's durable already and putting a sort of bulky connect like
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bulky case on it looks really good this way thank you for checking out this
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know what do you think is there still a place for hard drives given how much
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less expensive they are compared to ssds
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or would you be wanting to switch to exclusively SSD or flash-based storage
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moving forward it should be noted that the finish on here is pretty fingerprint
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uh attracting however it looks like see
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there you go giv you guys a pretty bit of a look at it however they seem to wipe off relatively easily which is
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something that I would often criticize about other finishes is that they uh
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they're difficult to clean and this one doesn't seem to have that problem