Kingston Celebrates Its 256 Gigabytes

Kingston celebrates its 256 gigabytes A little over a month after having released the DataTraveler 200 with a capacity of 128 world record Gigas here that Kingston Rams a little over the whole nail with a capacity of 256 gigabytes record broken! Datatraveler, this is the code name for its USB flash drives, which did not offer more than 64 GB ofcapacity for some time. Now, we pass the upper tier, and USB keys can now compete with our good old hard drives in terms of storage capacity.

By considering this, we must be very patient because it is exceedingly slow, and it will be full of banknotes to pay for this crap in a tube. Because that is the case here. It will take 7 hours to completely fill the 256 GB and about 3 ½ hours to empty. The flow rates are 20MB / s read and 10MB / s write with USB 2.0. It is simply the slowest rates not seen since at least 5 years. So it's a small step backwards for USB keys, a giant leap backward for Kingston. Do not the moon for this thing because it will cost you 900 euros on average (although more expensive than SSD).The good news is its retractable design. Indeed, no need for caps and protects the USB connector fits directly into the body of the key. FInally, I would not sacrifice power for 256 GB cache of Windows Vista, which is more extreme slowness.