Kingston Datatraveler Ultimate 3.0 USB3 Flash Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I will be unboxing a Kingston data traveler ultimate 3.0 so the data
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traveler line of products from Kingston is they USB 3
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or they USB storage thumb drives okay so this is
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an ultimate 3.0 so what the 3.0 means is
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that it is us B 3 so that means you are going to get faster speeds out of it
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than you will out of a USB 2 thumb drive so this particular guy is a more value
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oriented USB 3 drive it's not quite the
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fastest one out there but it's still going to be several times faster than
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anything on a USB 2.0 interface it has
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that clamshell type package that I'm
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really not a big fan of and I forgot my knife upstairs so I'm trying to struggle
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my way through this but give me a second here guys so I forced it open with a
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screwdriver of all things there we go
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all right so what's Kingston have to say for themselves about this guy well they're saying up to 100 megabytes per
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second reads up to 70 megabytes per second rights now my experience with
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these USB 3 thumb drives is that you're only really going to achieve those
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speeds in a scenario where you're reading or writing large files so if
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you're doing small files it will be smaller but or smaller slower but but
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they will still be dramatically faster than the usb2 equivalents so here we go
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uh speed read oh okay and it will max
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out a USB 2.0 interface at about 30 and 30 megabytes per second reads and writes
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now that 30 is probably a little bit optimistic I would think it would be
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more along the lines of about 25 um in terms of real world testing with you
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know not one large sequential 16 gig file this is the 16 gig version but it
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is available in a variety of capacities and it comes with a little keychain
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attacher piece so you can use that to well attach it to your keychain through
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the loophole at the top although I would suggest using something a little bit more sturdy these USB 3 drives still
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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
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the drive itself which is actually very stylish okay so you've got a nice cap
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here which has uh brushed Metal finish on the sides of uh both sides of it and
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then just white plastic here you've got the usb3 interface which has as you can
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see the four standard USB pins as well as the five extra USB three ones at the
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back then you've got more brush Metal finish on the sides here Kingston logo
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and then as I mentioned before you've got that hook on the top of it so you
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could put like a keychain Loop or or whatever else you desire on it there now
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the top only fits on one way so you won't accidentally put it on the wrong
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way and it actually sticks fairly well so there shouldn't be too much risk of
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losing that there you go that's the data travel
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traveler ultimate G2 16 gig USB 3
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external well I guess it would have to be external USB thumb drive