Kingston DataTraveler Micro 3.1 128 GB

DataTraveler

DataTraveler was the first flash drive from Kingston, which worked according to the USB 3.1 standard and provided an unprecedented speed at that time (for flash drives, that's for sure) in the region of 100 MB / s. Five years later, and hundreds of other models with USB 3.1, its speed no longer seems like a gift from the gods, and its main advantage, in our opinion, is its compactness.

Rugged, reliable and small body

Thanks to its modest dimensions of 25x12x4.5 mm, a metal case and a large recess for a carabiner, it literally asks for a carabiner for a bunch of keys and a key fob from a car alarm. In addition to being small, the case has two more advantages. The case here is one-piece, no caps for you to protect the USB connector, which are constantly lost. The second plus is the minimum heating during the recording of large files. If you plan to use it daily, overwriting tens of gigabytes of data, do not underestimate the importance of this parameter.

The actual speed of work is higher than the passport

Now let's move on to speed measurements. With a rated read speed of up to 100 Mbps and only 15 Mbps for writing, Kingston DataTraveler Micro 3.1 surpassed these figures in synthetic tests of CrystalDiskMark. When performing linear read operations, we got 105 MB / s, with linear writing 67 MB / s. That is, it takes a little more than half a minute to copy a 4-gigabyte movie from a USB flash drive to a PC.