today I will be unboxing a Kingston data traveler ultimate 3.0 so the data
traveler line of products from Kingston is they USB 3
or they USB storage thumb drives okay so this is
an ultimate 3.0 so what the 3.0 means is
that it is us B 3 so that means you are going to get faster speeds out of it
than you will out of a USB 2 thumb drive so this particular guy is a more value
oriented USB 3 drive it's not quite the
fastest one out there but it's still going to be several times faster than
anything on a USB 2.0 interface it has
that clamshell type package that I'm
really not a big fan of and I forgot my knife upstairs so I'm trying to struggle
my way through this but give me a second here guys so I forced it open with a
screwdriver of all things there we go
all right so what's Kingston have to say for themselves about this guy well they're saying up to 100 megabytes per
second reads up to 70 megabytes per second rights now my experience with
these USB 3 thumb drives is that you're only really going to achieve those
speeds in a scenario where you're reading or writing large files so if
you're doing small files it will be smaller but or smaller slower but but
they will still be dramatically faster than the usb2 equivalents so here we go
uh speed read oh okay and it will max
out a USB 2.0 interface at about 30 and 30 megabytes per second reads and writes
now that 30 is probably a little bit optimistic I would think it would be
more along the lines of about 25 um in terms of real world testing with you
know not one large sequential 16 gig file this is the 16 gig version but it
is available in a variety of capacities and it comes with a little keychain
attacher piece so you can use that to well attach it to your keychain through
the loophole at the top although I would suggest using something a little bit more sturdy these USB 3 drives still
aren't cheap so you're going to want to make sure that you don't accidentally lose it so we'll have a quick look at
the drive itself which is actually very stylish okay so you've got a nice cap
here which has uh brushed Metal finish on the sides of uh both sides of it and
then just white plastic here you've got the usb3 interface which has as you can
see the four standard USB pins as well as the five extra USB three ones at the
back then you've got more brush Metal finish on the sides here Kingston logo
and then as I mentioned before you've got that hook on the top of it so you
could put like a keychain Loop or or whatever else you desire on it there now
the top only fits on one way so you won't accidentally put it on the wrong
way and it actually sticks fairly well so there shouldn't be too much risk of
losing that there you go that's the data travel
traveler ultimate G2 16 gig USB 3
external well I guess it would have to be external USB thumb drive