Kingston DataTraveler 150 (32GB) reviews – a decent and economical 32GB flash drive

Monday, April 13, 2009, 10:00
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kingston15032gb The Kingston DataTraveler 150, priced at $60, is the least expensive 32GB flash drive in the market. Apart from delivering 32GB of storage, it also offers impressive data transfer speeds. The better part is that the flash drive looks stunning and thus is a complete package of looks, performance, and economical price. The device measures 3.1 by 0.9 by 0.5 inches. These days, with the demand for small sized nettops increasing by the day, small size in the field of USB thumb drives is also becoming very important. Some of you might feel that the width of the 32GB DataTraveler will make second port on your computer inaccessible. In order to rectify this problem, you can use a USB extension cable.

Let us talk about the shipment package of the Kingston DataTraveler. In order to keep the price of the device low, Kingston supplies only one packaged accessory with the device and that is a protective cap for the USB port. When your device is not in use, you can snap this cap onto its end to lend it protection. The package of the device lacks a carrying case or lanyard. After the device is formatted, it has the capability to store 30GB of data. You will find no bundled software along with this device. In order to run applications directly from the Kingston drive, you will have to download third-party software.

Let us now talk about the performance of the DataTraveler 150. For an economical drive, the speeds of data transfer are pretty impressive. But do not expect lightening data transfer speeds from DataTraveler 150. The drive offers an average write speed of 8.5 megabytes per second. As far as average read speed is concerned, the DataTraveler 150 offers an average read speed of 24.2 megabytes per second. The drive will take about three and half minutes to copy a 3 GB video file from your computer and about half of this time to transfer the same file back to your computer. Overall, at $60, the Kingston DataTraveler 150 costs you a decent $1.88 per gigabyte and comes across as a good 32GB flash drive.