Kingston adds their top performance label to this very fast thumb drive.

As the description states, this product worked for me for about 2 weeks before internal components overheated and broke. This product was fast while it lasted , but I would not recommend it due to a bad design, and very short life.

As long as you are stuck with a single operation (read/write), writes won't be affected. If you do both, there will be some slow performance. I would have liked to see this drive to be much quicker on all counts though.

(at time of review) If you've taken any more than a passing interest in the NAND Flash or RAM market the name Kingston Technology will have come up time and again. In the DRAM market Kingston supply 46% of memory modules, a staggering figure when you stop to consider it, and also hold a significant...

+ Speed; + Durability; + 5 Year Manufacturer Warranty

we reviewed at the same time, the Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 comes with no ‘lifetime' warranty, no software and no fanfare. It's a plain barebones USB 3.0 flash drive with a five year warranty and a chunky build.

The Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 flash drive is the best flash drive we have come across so far. For its large capacity and excellent performance, the Kingston DT HyperX 3.0 flash drive earns the

Sturdy and well built; Excellent performance; Backwards compatible with USB; 2.0; Compact

Speed decreases when transferring large numbers; Speed drops slightly under USB 2.0

It's fast, it has a large capacity. But the only problem I found is the size of it. it is very wide and also thick. So if you have 2 USB's stacked right beside each other I literally can't plug it in unless I unplug the other one. That's my only problem with it.

Kingston's HyperX brand has a good reputation in memory components, such as the Kingston HyperX Genesis 2,133MHZ 16GB RAM , and in solid state hard drives such as the Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD .

Large capacity for a USB thumb drive; Very fast; Robust design

Bulky case can make plugging it in tricky; Cap could be easily lost

Today we are looking at the Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 64GB, which is the company's fastest USB flash drive to date. By utilizing an eight-channel architecture Kingston claims that this new drive can achieved transfer rates of up to 225MB/s read and 135MB/s write, while capacities will range...

The DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 isn't actually the first Kingston drive to be touted by the company as an SSD-like Flash drive as that "honor" belongs to the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0, launched back in September of 2010.

High sequential transfer speeds - High capacity - Great looking - Five-year warranty

- $149 base price - Low random 4K performance