Slightly bigger and more expensive than a standard USB flash drive, but with many times
Slightly bigger and more expensive than a standard USB flash drive, but with many times
This drive was exactly what i was looking for. It is affordable, fast, stylish, and works perfect on my Macbook Air Laptop. The transfer speeds are so much faster on USB 3.0 vs. the old usb 2.0 technology. I transferred an 1.6 GB video file from my laptop to this drive in under 30 seconds.
Easy To Use; Fast; Faster; High Capacity; Portable; Reliable
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The Kingston Ultimate 3.0 G3 flash drive is a third-generation unit for professional business users demanding high performance and a solid, understated, stylish, and cap-less design. With capacities of up to 64 GB, it also offers the storage required by some.
Excellent build quality; Great USB 3.0 read performance; Very good USB 3.0 write speeds; Excellent USB 2.0 performance; Solid metal ring to use on key chain; Slide back protecting cover for connector; Blue LED included; Lifetime warranty; Available with 32 and 64 GB capacity
Quite bulky; Heavier than other sticks of similar performance; Packaging is not user-friendly
For today's review Kingston has sent over their latest USB 3.0 flash drive – the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Generation 3 (G3). This model is Kingston's latest USB 3.0 portable drive, which features data transfer speeds of up 250 MB/s read and 70 Mb/s write.
Sleek style; Excellent performer; Portable; Capless Design
Bulky; USB connector exposed to dust
As USB 3.0 is slowly becoming integrated into more products such as the latest generation of PC motherboards more companies are releasing products to take advantage of this technology's speed gains.
+Lightning fast read/write speeds; +Well constructed; +Speeds actually exceed the specs listed by Kingston; +Backwards compatible with USB 2.0
-Bulky and may block USB ports
Kingston, a leading memory vendor has just announced their first USB 3.0 flash drive almost a year later than the world first USB 3.0 flash drive in Nov 2009. This is understandable as it takes time for the market to accept and acknowledge all the new technologies before they go into mass production...
+ Greater speeds than USB2.0 devices; + Strong & durable Aluminum housing; + Minimal overheated problem; + Comes with 5 years warranty
- A bit bulky; - Not cheap
The Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate G3 64GB USB 3.0 flash drive is the third generation product in the company's lineup, packing 64GB of capacity onto a form factor that can fit onto your key ring. But what about performance?
Fast speeds; capless design; durable; large capacity; good price
No encryption; could block adjacent USB ports
Most of us use a USB pen drive on some level or another, whether it is to keep offline document backups or to move files between work and home machines. Today we are looking at the new Kingston Data Traveler Ultimate 64GB drive which is the first USB 3.0 pen drive we have tested.
This USB 3.0 flash drive gives you 64GB of storage in your pocket
Good capacity; Fast read/write; Not prohibitively expensive
Hard to imagine you can jam 64 gigs of info on such a small device, but here's the proof. No complaints at all.
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