Kingston 128GB DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 100MB/s Read, 10MB/s Write (DT100G3/128GB)

Purchase arrived quickly and the product is just what I wanted!

Esta marca siempre me ha brindado memorias de gran calidad, super recomendadas

So glad I bought this. Big storage and very fast loading and using. Thank you!

When I get flash drives, I typically go with Kingston. Theres not too many companies I would say have gained a brand loyalty from me, but Kingston has been one of them. Over the last 10 years, Ive had three Kingston drives, including this one, and they all still work (I just use them for different tasks), and Ive always managed to get them at a reasonable price. Its a flash drive, theres not a whole lot to say about it, but it works, and Ive had a pretty good track record with other Kingston products in the past.

These drives are unreliable. I bought two to supplement my Sandisk Extreme drives which are pricey. I just wanted to have a couple of drives for booting computers - low writes, lots of reads. They are so poorly implemented that they cant even handle that! Yes, the performance is mediocre - not what I bought them for. The problem seems to be that a decent fraction of the time they will disconnect during heavy reading or writing - which means file corruption and serious problems. Other times, they arent recognized at all on some systems. The problem seems to be with USB 3 mode, but I think they sometimes have issues in any mode. I had a problem getting modern macbook pros (USB 3) to boot off of them at all (where the identical image on a sandisk extreme worked 100%). I have had problems on an Acer with USB 3 ports as well. Ill plug it in and wait, and nothing happens. In linux ill check the logs, and sometimes theres nothing at all, other times Ill get a bunch of errors in dmesg. I have never had this kind of problem before. Ill plug it into a legacy USB 2 port, and poof, it mounts! After 30 seconds, it fails to mount the device. I just plugged one in my USB3 port now, heres what I got: [13745.997136] usb 4-2: new SuperSpeed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd [13746.029889] usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1666 [13746.029896] usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [13746.029900] usb 4-2: Product: DataTraveler 3.0 [13746.029903] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: Kingston [13746.029906] usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 60A44C3FAD9EBE91698E0092 [13746.030551] usb-storage 4-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [13746.030716] scsi8 : usb-storage 4-2:1.0 [13767.958162] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd [13772.976227] usb 4-2: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [13773.080179] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd [13778.098299] usb 4-2: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [13778.258675] usb 4-2: USB disconnect, device number 4 [13778.259476] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep ffff8802ea172300 [13778.259487] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep ffff8802ea172348 Same device, in the USB 2 port and it mounts in 2 seconds.

This is an entry-level USB 3 drive and as such outperforms entry-level USB 2 drives. Ive used this model in 16, 32, and 64 GB capacities and never had any problems. I reformatted a couple to exFAT in order to store files larger than 4 GB and used them with televisions to watch high-definition movies. It performs noticeably faster when connected to a USB 3 port compared to USB 2. In the terminal, even rudimentary operations like find and ls are much faster on directories with many files when this device is connected via USB 3. The slide cover is convenient and stays locked into position. The attachment point for lanyards or key chains is too small. I was only able to use a thin plastic wire tie with it. For the ten dollars I paid, it was a good deal.

I have been through many different types of USBs but this have always been my favorite. They are tough, hold a decent amount of data and transfer data at respectable rate. For the price I do not think you will find a better deal. PS: HURRY UP AND MAKE A - RUGGED WATERPROOF - SSD NVME drive pleassse!!!

Fast as it should be, and rugged so far.

Kingston Digital 128GB DataTraveler is a good value for the money. The 128 GB appears to be the set standard for now. The memory stick is a little bigger than I wanted in terms of size. A competitor does make a similar size memory stick that is quite small and easy to use. However, I had catastrophic failer with that memory stick. Kingston has software that will recover and rejuvenate your memory stick should it be corrupted. That is why I recommend this product.

I bought this 64GB USB drive to back-up my back-up of photos since you can never have too many back-ups of those precious pics... so, in terms of value and capacity, it is great. However, it is a little larger than typical USBs and it wouldnt fit next to my wireless mouse receiver, or next to the input from my external HD when plugged in, so I ended up buying a USB C to USB receiver (see the second pic) so that I could use the USB C drive on my laptop (my laptop has only 2 USB As and 1 USB C). Im transferring pics as I type this from my external HD to the USB at a rate of about 15 MB/s so backing up 50GB of pics is going to take hours, but it works, its cheap and it gives me some peace of mind. Im deducting 1 star because the case is a bit large, but overall a great value. Just keep in mind that it could be a tight fit if most of your USB ports are already in use. So far so good and I would buy it again.