Huge capacity and killer speeds for this USB 3.0 flash drive.

It's been a while since we've looked at the original Kingston HyperX USB flash drive, about 3.5 years actually. For it's time, we found that the 4GB HyperX drive was very fast and at the top of its class.  Today, we're looking at a drive from the current HyperX line.  And we've come a long way as...

This flash drive made our jaws drop. It has stunning performance under USB 3.0, and is a great overall drive. It stays consistent in terms of performance, is sturdily built, and is compact and easy to carry around.

Although during this year's CES many manufacturers presented impressive and innovative products there's no doubt that the most impressive storage product unveiled was the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 512GB USB 3.0 flash drive by Kingston.

- Build Quality (Zinc Metal Alloy Casing/Toshiba 19nm Toggle NAND Flash; - Read/Write Speeds (280MBs/180MBs; - Massive Storage Space (512GB; - SSD Type USB Flash Drive; - USB 3.0 Extension Cable

- Price (For Most People; - Drive Thickness (For Some

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

Kingston sent a HyperX Datatraveler 64GB USB 3.0 Drive for evaluation. HyperX is meant to be a series to give an all round better than mainstream/value series hardware of any kind- memory kit, SSD and flash drives- and much better quality.