Performance: The test system used in this review was an HP dc7900. The computer came equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz CPU, 2GB of DDR2 800MHz memory, Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250310AS 250GB SATA hard drive, NVIDIA Quadro FX570 256MB PCIe graphics card and Intel 82567LM-3 gigabit...

Excellent read and write speeds; Backwards compatible with USB 2.0; Powered off the USB bus; Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7; Well constructed; Five year warranty

May block adjacent USB ports; Pricey

The Kingston DT Ultimate 32GB G2 is a fantastic USB drive that surpasses even our and Kingston's expectations for the drive. Although the drive itself may be on the pricey side, the performance and quality that you get from this drive are nearly worth every penny.

A lot has happened in the USB 3.0 world since we took a look at Kingston's first ‘Ultimate 3.0′ drive this past fall, and thanks to some progressions, the company has just released a ‘G2′ variant of the drive.

We have in our hands the Kingston's DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Generation 3 (DTU30G3), a USB 3.0 flash drive that supports data transfer rates of up to 150MB/s read and 70MB/s write, offering you the convenience of carrying files with incredible speed and ease.

Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Generation 2 Review – Last year, Kingston released the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 USB flash drive, the fastest USB flash drive with a native USB 3.0 controller and comes in a whooping huge space, up to 64 GB (check Craving Tech's DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 review ).

Even faster than the first generation model; Large capacity; USB 2 compatible; Can be attached to a keyring

Size a bit bulky; Apart from the speed; nothing else is new in the Generation 2 model

Back in Q2 2011 the marketing team over at Kingston Technology announced that the company had begun shipping its first second generation of USB 3.0 enabled DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Flash drives.

The 32GB Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 flash drive can be found just under $100 in Canada and in the U.S. making it an affordable first USB 3.0 flash drive solution for new adopters of the standard.

Today's review is written by Kristofer Brozio.  Kristofer is from TestFreaks.com, a product review site, who graciously submitted this review for us to post on jonnyGURU.com. USB 3.0 is here to stay, it’s not going anywhere, and it is the future of portable storage as we know it.

With all the data shuffled around in the information age we live in, the ability to store and transport data files as easily as possible is important. Companies responded by first started offering USB 2.0 drives with storage capacities all the way up to 256GB.

A few weeks back Kingston sent over one of their 32GB DataTravelers for a bit of an evaluation and, with the hustle and bustle of Computex, we have to concede that it never really got a fair shake.