Kingston DataTraveler Max 256GB USB-C Flash Drive with USB 3.2 Gen 2 Performance

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Kingston DataTraveler Max 256GB USB-C Flash Drive with USB 3.2 Gen 2 Performance

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Pros

Kingston flash drive is lightning-fast. Gb a second is easy to hit.

Works well with android. Has a usb-c insert which is perfect for my mac. Also works well on my phone. Only issue is the whole length of the connector.

Cons

Plastic enclosure feels cheap and is a bit difficult to slide open and closed. The enclosure is all plastic, and it really does not seem like they put much thought into its design. Disappointing effort by kingston.

Crystaldiskmark benches this drive at about 44mb/s, no where near the 900/1000 advertised. It takes forever before it's ready to eject. Sustained transfer speeds is 3% of the advertised 1,000 mb/s.

Gb of work destroyed. has to be reformatted twice lost data. But the biggest complaint is that it died after only two months of use. I need this for an upcoming trip to india (in 2-days), so am really annoyed.

The usb-c connector does not stick out far enough from the casing to fit all the way in on some laptops. The connection is weak, it seems loose. When plugged in, it blocks other ports on multiple laptops, it's just so wide.

Kingston's drive controller is throttling the write speed due to heat. I have benchmarked other external ssd drives at continuous write speeds much higher than this kingston. It's not clear if the drive uses a small cache that quickly fills up, or has... Read More

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Quality

Otherwise, great flashdrive, fast read/write, accurate storage amount.

Incredible read and write speeds with windows and other apps installed for emergencies running just as fast as my ssd on the pc!

The software in question is already running on my 2022 desktop pc (z690/i5-12600k/32 gb ddr5/samsung 980pro m.

The kingston datatraveler max 256 gb is giving me about twice the speed in sequential read/write and about half the speed in ra... Read More

Price

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 ... Read More

Packaging/appearance

The drive packaging would prevent any potential damage during shipping yet was easy to access.

Competitiveness

Although kingston is not the only brand of memory and storage i trust, i have relied on kingston products for decades, and this... Read More

Instead i'm getting closer to 520mb/s which is nowhere near the claimed speed nor that on various review sites but way faster t... Read More

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This product had a total of 1,231 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 20 2024.