Kingston DataTraveler Max 1TB USB-C Flash Drive with USB 3.2 Gen 2 Performance

Great "little" stick drive. It's actually, a few inches long, but it is very fast, installed with no issue, and has a lot of space on it. My wife has a phone with no micro slot and only 128GB of total drive space, so videos and pictures at high resolution fill it quickly. This stick allows you to clear out your phone's photos and vids in a matter of minutes, but still have them for editing and use later.

I capture a lot of 4K/60fps footage of my daughters' soccer matches, and at 24GB per game, and sometimes multiple games per day, my 128GB iPhone storage can't always handle the capacity needs! I needed a way to quickly and easily transfer these large 12GB (per half) files off the local storage, to enable me to record later games. I started initially with a USB-C to SD card adapter, and a high-quality SD card, but this was slooooowww. At least 20 mins to copy the 12GB file. This USB-C flash drive, formatted in ExFAT, copied the same size file in SECONDS. It was like night and day difference, and for the price, 256GB capacity is perfect for me - it was a no brainer. The only challenge I had, was I need to remove my phone case to get a good connection, but I'll take that - it's 100% worth it. Highly recommended!

It's fast alright, and bit (one terabyte/1TB model). It's a VERY LONG USB drive though, and the same width and height as a USB-A drive. It puts a lot of leverage on that little USB-C plug, so if you bump it it feels like it'll bend or break. The plastic is cheap feeling and the fit around the internal board isn't very tight so it flops around a bit. Overall feels WAY cheaper than it is. I probably wouldn't ever buy this brand again, because I want things to last when I spend good money on them. This thing is not long for the world, especially if you have a thin laptop and it spends a lot of time millimeters from the surface of your desk... one wring set-down or pick-up and it feels like it'll be toast.

My drive definitely gets the advertised speeds on USB 3.2 GEN 2 port. On a 3.2 Gen 1 port, I get about half the advertised speeds. Still very fast for a small flash drive. Also works well on my phone. This flash drive does get fairly hot, but that's to be expected because of it's fast transfer speeds. I bought this product for around $38. At that price, it was only about $8-10 dollars more when compared to other big name brand 256gb USB C flash drives, but you get much faster speeds. At $38 dollars, I think this drive is fantastic, but I don't think I would buy this product again unless it came back around or below $38. Minor complaints: I wish the case was made out of metal rather than plastic. For a drive that's supposed to retail for $63 dollars, you would think it would have a more premium finish. A metal case would also help transfer heat more effectively than plastic. Also, the design of the case could be better. When the USB plug is sheathed, the plug is still exposed on the back. They really should have designed it so the plug is fully covered when sheathed. Lastly, I wish the USB plug was extended slightly so I could use this flash drive with certain phone cases. Most phone cases will not allow you to fully insert this drive. You will either need to remove your the case or buy a new one that has enough room to insert the drive. (I wouldn't really consider this a design flaw or proper complaint but it would be a nice QOL improvement).

This is great if you want a flash drive that is superfast, which is why I bought it. It's quite physically large as flash drives go, but my priority was speed and it delivered.

Your mileage may vary, but initial testing has gone very well in my niche application. I have a 2017 MacBook Pro (i5-7267U/8 GB RAM, four Thunderbolt 3 ports only) running Windows 10, and I am out of drive space, but I need to install some large software to take on the road with me. I was going to buy an external m.2 chassis, but I thought I would give this drive a try, instead, since it is about 1/3rd the price of what it would cost me to buy an external m.2 chassis, m.2 drive, and Thunderbolt 3 cable. It's also a small fraction of the size and weight. The software in question is already running on my 2022 desktop PC (Z690/i5-12600K/32 GB DDR5/Samsung 980PRO m.2 boot drive, Windows 11) from a 10 years old Kingston 240 GB SSDNow V300 SATA SSD that was pulled from my old Dell laptop. I ran CrystalDiskMark on the old drive in the new PC, because the software runs fine at that speed. The Kingston DataTraveler Max 256 GB is giving me about twice the speed in sequential read/write and about half the speed in random read/write. The SATA drive is NTFS, and the USB drive is exFAT, but that probably doesn't matter. As you can see from the CrystalDiskMark screenshot, I am pulling the advertised 1000 MB/s even from this relatively ancient and obsolete MacBook Pro, so it definitely works fine on a Thunderbolt 3 port using Apple's Boot Camp Windows drivers. I did not include a screenshot of the old drive's results, so as not to confuse people. This is probably going to be fine, but I am installing the software right now to see how well it actually runs on the MacBook Pro, running from the USB-C stick. It will take hours to install, since the developer specifies 140 GB of drive space, and my WiFi is only pulling about 100 Mb/s. If the software doesn't run very well, it will likely be more to do with the difference in memory, CPU, and GPU between the two machines, not the drive speed. Although Kingston is not the only brand of memory and storage I trust, I have relied on Kingston products for decades, and this product gives me every reason to extend that trust. The DDR5 RAM in my desktop PC is also Kingston. Update: After 3 weeks on the road, I can say this drive performed flawlessly in my application.

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Okay, I did not expect to geek out over a flash drive, but here we are, and wow, this little thing is a total beast. File transfers feel like straight-up sorcery. I dumped a whole folder packed with giant video files and boom, it was done in seconds. No joke. It's crazy fast, super slick, and small enough to slip right into my laptop bag without even noticing. Honestly? Couldn’t be more impressed. Totally worth the price, if not more.

Este es mi tercer dispositivo, asi que quiere decir que estoy muy satisfecho con este producto. Las velocidades de lectura y escritura son como estan descritas. Sin embargo, si la actividad de lectura y escritura es sostenida por algun tiempo, por ejemplo, al hacer la clonacion de un disco, las velocidades empiezan a bajar bastante. Pero como esto es un uso infrecuente en mi caso, entonces es aceptable. La forma rectangular alargada es un poco rara, y en posicion horizontal podria colgarse un poco, pero como es muy ligero, no importa. Su luz LED azul es muy útil.