Average Bench: 24.3% (171st of 639)

Based on 1,777 user benchmarks.  Device: VID 125f PID 312b Model: ADATA USB Flash Drive

The Adata Dashdrive Elite S102 Pro 32GB has proven to be a popular USB 3.0 flash drive. I did a full review of the 16GB version back in August 2012 and little has changed aside from the re-branding to Dashdrive Elite. The S102 Pro still has the same robust form factor and reasonable performance profile. With Sequential read/write speeds in the region of 110/37 MBps the 32GB version bests its smaller 16GB sibling by around 30% in terms of sequential performance. This performance improvement when jumping between capacities of the same drive is common amongst flash based drives. It stems from the increased parallelization potential on larger capacity drives. Small 4K file read/write performance clocks in at 13/0.4 MB/s which is above average for a 32GB flash drive. Overall the S102 Dashdrive Elite represents reasonable value for money. [Feb '14 USBFlashPro]

Poor: 10%Average: 24.3% Great: 39%

Very poor average bench

The Adata DashDrive Elite S102 Pro USB 3.0 32GB averaged 75.6% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Write Speed 11.9MB/s
Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 9.14MB/s

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Adata DashDrive Elite S102 Pro USB 3.0 32GB is 28.3%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the Adata DashDrive Elite S102 Pro USB 3.0 32GB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 28.8MB/s
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 30.8MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 1,777 samples)
Min Avg Max
27.1 Read 82.9 155
6.1 Write 30.8 51.2
7.75 Mixed 37 77
12.2 SusWrite 28.8 47
52.5% 44.9 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.2 4K Read 5.53 11.8
0 4K Write 1.53 8.4
0 4K Mixed 1.76 6.15
132% 2.94 MB/s
Min Avg Max
8.64 DQ Read 15.3 23.3
5.88 DQ Write 11.9 16.3
4.68 DQ Mixed 9.14 13.5
772% 12.1 MB/s
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Aluminum body with metal finish...

Added 10 years ago.

Good

3 years ago.

quite poor results for writes, up to 22mb/s usb 3.0, quite good read speeds, over 100mb/s


Above average

10 years ago.


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