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

Does exactly what you expect it to do. Just pull back the cover, insert the tip into the slot, and it’s fast, but steady. Feels a bit cheap and flimsy, especially noticeable when sliding back the cover, as it is made completely of plastic; but for this price point, you really can’t complain about that. Another quirk that I noticed is, you need to pull back the cover all the way (until you feel a slight click), or else the tip doesn’t go all the way in , and your computer will not be satisfied and will not read the stick. I purchased it more for the function. Needed a 64gb stick for work and it deployed an image out to over 3,000 laptops, no issues. Literally, in & out, in & out, until I finished.

I have not had any problem with this and it has been about 2 years since I got it. Crazy thing I recently left it in my pocket and it went into the washing machine and dryer and it still works! Now I am not saying this is waterproof but I thought I lost all my documents and stuff. Non of the text documents were corrupted.

(Its colored because I bought 2 of these and had to mark them) Ive believed the Kingston flash drives are built well since I bought one quite awhile ago for school and it lasted so long and was so dependable so I started buying this brand and havent been disappointed yet. This particular one has great transfer speed and overall great value for your money. The only thing I could find negative about it is the track its set up with to open and close has the potential to become jammed if some crap gets in there, plus ut really seems to serve no purpose anyway since the end is still exposed. But for the money this is a 5 star buy its working out great!

I must say Im a bit disappointed with this drive. The price was very reasonable and amazing for a 3.0 drive, but upon benchmarking the drive, I discovered that the write speed was that of a typical USB 2.0 drive. Read speeds are similar to my other 3.0 drives, though. I would recommend it for someone that reads a lot of files, but dont look for quick file transfers to the device.

So far, no errors. Which is rather common in flash drives of all brand. Saving speed seems a little slow though, still reasonable.

I needed an additional USB drive to create a recovery boot USB for a new laptop. Saw this one on sale and didnt think twice (or read the reviews [my mistake]) because it was Kingston brand. Upon arrival, I knew something was fishy when formatting took longer than usual on this supposed USB 3.0/3.1 device. I started trying to move files of various sizes -- everything from small documents to lossy and lossless audio and uncompressed video -- and all of them wrote to the drive ABYSMALLY slow. I then decided to benchmark the drive using multiple tools, specifically CrystalDiskMark and SpeedOut. Imagine my surprise when both of them showed that this USB3 drive, on a USB3 port, was writing at less than a quarter speed of a 10 year old, USB 2 stick on the same port. Yes, LESS THAN A QUARTER of the speed. I could move an entire 3.7GB mp4 movie to the USB2 stick in the same time it would take to move an album worth of 320MP3 audio files to the *new*, 64gb USB3 stick. Knowing that Amazon has had issues with counterfeit items in the past, I ran another test to ensure the stick was genuine. To my dismay, it WAS genuine. Kingstons quality has clearly fallen a long way. Im not so sure a counterfeit wouldnt run BETTER. What a sad state of affairs. Not only is this stick unsuitable for its intended use as a system recovery device, its not even suitable for use as a backup device because it takes far too long to save anything beyond a few megabytes of size. Buy something else.

Ive bought quite a few USB thumb drives from Kingston. I have yet to have any of them fail. This 128 GB is my most recent and has a pretty good capacity. The only complaint I have with this model is that the write speed sometimes seems to be relatively slow, even though the read speed is what i would expect from USB3.0. Im not sure if thats a USB3.0 issue or just something with this hardware.

I have used this drive now for a few months and it has worked as it is supposed to each time. I didnt buy it for speed, I bought it for music and to transfer files. I am happy with my purchase.

Very convenient drive to use, but the drive comes formatted in FAT32, which limits the size of any single file you copy to the drive to 4GB. If you are using this drive with Windows 7, 8 or 10, you want to reformat it into NTFS before using it to remove that restriction. Very surprised that a modern (USB 3.0) flash drive would be formatted in such an archaic file system.

Use this Usb drive to create a disk image and backup my windows 10 pc Ive used Kingston usb drives in the past and they have always be reliable and fast