Introduction

Kingston have long been known for producing high quality memory products, from laptop/desktop memory to flash drives and SSDs. What we have today falls into the flash drive category. It’s a 32GB USB 3.0 version of the DataTraveler series, the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0.  Available in 16, 32 and 64GB versions and boasting some pretty quick read/write speeds it certainly looks impressive but how does it really do? Let’s take a look.

Features/Specifications:

• Capacities1 — 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB
• Requirements — SuperSpeed (USB 3.0) USB port for full compatibility
• Backwards compatible+ — use the included Y-cable to use DTU30 with your USB 2.0 ports
• Speed 2 —
  • When plugged to a USB 3.0 system:
    • Read speed up to 80 MB/s
    • Write speed up to 60 MB/s

• • When plugged to a USB 2.0 system:
    • Maximum specification performance (around 30 MB/s read and write)

• Colour — Glossy white with aluminium
• Dimensions — 2.90” x 0.87” x 0.63” (73.70 mm x 22.20 mm x 16.10 mm)
• Operating Temperature — 32° to 140° F (0° to 60° C)
• Storage Temperature — -4° to 185° F (-20° to 85° C)
• Practical — durable casing with a solid lanyard loop
• Warranty — 5 Years
• Compatibility Table Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7