 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the ADATA 64 gig nobility N005, the news. Okay, USB 3 thumb drive. Now you guys might wonder why am I unboxing a thumb drive? What is the point of unboxing a thumb drive? To which I would answer the point is speed. Because this thumb drive is capable of reading it up to 180 megabytes per second and which makes it 120% faster than what? I don't know, but it's a pro drive. It also is very big. Look at this thing, but very big in a way that's not sort of ridiculous. Like this, this drive drives me crazy because look how wide it is. See, this is, this is a Kingston drive and like, look, the USB interface isn't even like centered. So by the time you plug that into anything, you can't plug in anything next to it. This drive right here is long because it has to have multiple flash chips on it. There's nothing we can do about the physics of that, but it's narrow enough that you should still be able to plug other devices in nearby. It has a cap that shouldn't be the, oh, it only goes on one way. I wish it was reversible, but it's not the end of the world. It has a spot here for a key ring. You know what? The whole point of this is basically speed. So we'll be back in a moment and we'll show you guys a real world test of the speed of this drive. All right, so we're plugged into, we're using an ASMedia controller on this particular shuttle PC and we've got it plugged into our front USB 3. Just for lulls, we're trying a bit of a new benchmark. We're using the Blackmagic disk speed test to find out what we can actually get in terms of like real world sustained reads and writes. Now 86 megabytes per second is some pretty beast write speeds for a USB drive. That is absolutely outstanding. The read speeds weren't as fast as we saw advertised on the box, but 120 megabytes per second reads are still very respectable. Now that's not necessarily the be all and end all of benchmarks. So what we might do here is take a 1.27 gigabyte file and copy that over to our drive and see if we can do, I don't have my iPhone in my pocket so I don't have a timer, but we'll time it. There you go. Now I ran into some problems the first time I did this benchmark. So I'm sorry I'm in a completely different place now doing completely different things. I've got the ADATA drive plugged into the ASMedia controller on this particular Asus board. It's a P9X79 deluxe. I've got my ADATA drive here. So we're going to do a quick test of the copy speeds and since I'm using Windows 8 we should actually be able to get a fairly accurate representation. So these two files are about 1 gig each so it looks like we're writing at about 85 megabytes per second consistently to the drive which is very very cool stuff. Now if we take some other USB 3 drive and we go ahead and copy that exact same file to it what I'm expecting to see is significantly different results. I'm going to go ahead pull up my ADATA drive. I'm going to put in this is a Patriot Transporter XT USB 3 drive. So it's still USB 3. It's going to be faster than a USB 2 drive but not expecting anything near as extreme as what we just saw. So let's open a folder to view the files. Let's go ahead and copy this bad boy in here. So we're seeing about 36 megabytes per second which is not the same as the ADATA drive. So not all USB 3 drives are created equal. If you guys thought that then you're probably mistaken about that particular notion. Now what I want to do is I want to go ahead and read off of the drives to find out what the difference is there. All right let's throw the ADATA drive back in here. I've rebooted just to make sure that there's no funny caching issues with the files and windows or anything like that. So we've got our drive open now. I'm going to go ahead and switch my view here so you guys can see what's going on and we are going to copy it into the root of the drive and see what happens. I need administrator permission. I'll show you administrator permission. 170 megabytes per second 174 average of 175. So yes guys it's not quite the 180 megabytes per second that they advertise and honestly the writes aren't quite there either. But I think what we're about to see when we throw our patriot drive back on the back of the test bench is that it is pretty significantly more baller than just your average USB 3 drive. I mean this is pretty cool. It's a fairly large drive but I still think that you definitely see kind of a value add to it here. If it's going to go and be that much faster especially in terms of reads let's copy it somewhere else. We'll copy it to the AMD folder just to make sure that nothing silly is happening here. So here we go. We see a much more more mundane read speed around 35 megabytes per second. So thank you for checking out my little benchmarking review video of ADATA's N005 Pro. They could have just called it the N008, the noob drive. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos featuring this hideous jacket. Can't find my remote control. How am I going to turn off this dream? Oh it's hiding right here.