Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 New Flash Drive

Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 New Flash Drive Generation 2 Flash Drive Debuts

If you’re the type of person who keeps too many files on hand, you’re most likely to demand a flash drive that will perform. And when we say perform, we don’t just mean a flash drive that’s going to save you thousands of files – we mean a flash drive that’s going to read and write and transfer data at the peak.

So when Kingston, the world’s number one in terms of flash memory presence, introduced its latest USB 3.0 model, we gladly and wholeheartedly welcomed the newbie.

The Kingston USB 3.0 flash drive looks similar to your ordinary flash drive. It’s a USB stick that you can put on your favorite keychain for ultimate portability. The only difference is that this USB 3.0 flash drive uses a USB 3.0 controller making it a top performer, and it has the ability to take care of all your documents, music, photos, HD videos and applications.

Performance
For testing, I have broken it down into two main sections. The first is benchmarks consisting of both real world and synthetic tests. This will help give us a good view of how the Ultimate USB 3.0 performs. The second section deals with how user-friendly a device it is. After all, no matter how fast a flash drive is, if it's too clunky to carry around all day (or is too fragile), then it is most likely going to be useless for your needs! I call this section "Daily Use" as that is exactly what it is; I used the drive for a four days straight instead of my trusty Corsair Flash Voyager GTR.
In these tests, the Kingston Data Traveler Ultimate USB 3.0 Drive was connected to an Asus U3S6 USB 3.0 x4 adapter card plugged into the secondary X16 slot (running in x8 mode) which conforms to the PCI-E 2.0 standard and run through my usual gamut of tests. The results of the tests were then compared to those of a Corsair 32GB Flash Voyager GTR, Super Talent Express 3.0 as well as SuperCrypt 3.0.
The motherboard was a Gigabyte EP45 Extreme with an Intel Q9550 Quad CPU with 4GB of RAM. Running Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate, all tests were run 4 times only best results are shown. Main OS drive is a VelociRaptor 300GB, secondary data transfer drive was a G.Skill Phoenix 100GB solid state drive plugged in to a free ICH10 port on the motherboard. All USB 2.0 tests were accomplished via the motherboard's built in ICH10 USB 2.0 controller.

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