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The Adata DashDrive Elite HE720 (500GB) external hard drive ($69.99) bundles strong performance with a lovely design, but its higher price-per-gigabyte ratio, short cable, and lackluster software gives us pause. The drive is extraordinarily thin in its design—perfect to stuff into a messenger bag or, honestly, a pocket. A single USB 3.0 Micro B port is all you get to connect with, but it's one of the fairly new micro-data/power connectors that eliminates the need for supplemental cables going all over the place. Just don't lose that cable; your speeds plummet if you connect up to the drive using a standard micro USB cable.