Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate USB 3.0 64 GB

Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate USB 3.0 64 GB

USB Flash drives are known for their portability, but the capacity and speed were always found lacking. While a few have managed to get them up to speeds like portable USB 2.0 hard drives and with eSATA interface, this has largely been a neglected area. Now with the advent of USB 3.0, we have a chance to get past this hindrance and really fast USB Flash drives are finally seeing the light of the day.Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate USB 3.0 64 GB

Today we have a USB 3.0 Flash drive from Kingston - DataTraveler Ultimate USB 3.0 64 GB, which is expected to break the speed records held by previous USB Flash drives we have tested. Read on to find out if it met our performance expectations.

Kingston's DTU30/64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive

font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Last week Kingston Technology announced that the company has begun shipping its first USB 3.0 Flash drive. The Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Flash drive takes advantage of the newer and faster USB 3.0 specification that has up to ten times the data transfer rates of the current USB 2.0 specification. This means that the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Flash drive is quick and it doesn't disappoint with a read speed of up to 80MB/s and a write speed of 60MB/s. We happened to get our hands one of these drives last week and went straight to testing it as we really wanted to see what it had to offer!

Kingston Part Number	Description	Street Price
DTU30/16GB	16GB USB 3.0 Flash drive	$65
DTU30/32GB	32GB USB 3.0 Flash drive	$100
DTU30/64GB	64GB USB 3.0 Flash drive	$200

The DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 is available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities under the part number DTU30. For this review we were sent the 64GB DTU30/64GB model, so that is the drive we will be using for testing.