A-Data HD650 AHD650-1TU31-CBK 1 TB

Durable and cute

A-Data's DashDrive Durable HD650 is one of the few rugged HDDs that doesn't look like a bristling, battle-ready knight. Rather, on the contrary: thanks to its design features, it looks like a racing car.

The HD650's three-layer protective design features a durable, scratch-resistant plastic casing fused with a silicone casing that absorbs vibration when dropped. And hidden under this armor is a rubber frame that holds the disc inside the body and acts as an additional shock absorber. All this will help the disk painlessly survive falls from a table or a crush in a backpack. We cannot say anything about more specific “injuries”, since there is no information on the manufacturer’s website about passing the test according to the military standard MIL-STD-810.

1000 GB storage

The basis of the A-Data DashDrive Durable HD650 is a 2.5 format hard drive with a spindle speed of 5400 rpm and a total capacity of 1 TB. Interestingly, this is one of the rare models of external HDDs that offers an option with 4 TB of memory, which in the era of 4K and huge gaming distributions no longer seems overkill.

Read speed up to 116 MB/s

The drive is equipped with a modern USB 3.1 Gen1 interface for high-speed data transfer, which is compatible with earlier USB standards. Synthetic tests have shown that the drive is capable of producing the following figures: 116 MB/s sequential read and 112 MB/s sequential data write.

Completely silent

One of the features of the DashDrive Durable HD650 is its quietness. Even when copying large archives for a long time, you can understand that it is working only thanks to the color indicator.