Thursday, March 27, 2008

Kingston DataTraveler- No-frills pen drive

A USB pen drive is meant to carry your data. Well thats what the Kingston DataTraveler does. It is a 4 GB pen drive which is also available in 1,2 and 8 GB. The drive is sleek and beautifully crafted in a black polymer casting. Unlike most other drives, this one has a retractable USB port that slides out using a thumb button at the side. The drive and the sliding mechanism exude ruggedness.

Simplicity is key factor here. The drive doesn't support Vista's ReadyBoost feature, but is compatible with different operating systems such as Windows Vista/XP/2000, Mac OS and Linux. The drive does not support U3 capability. It takes 3 minutes to transfer a 700 MB file, while copying it back it takes 53.1 seconds. It is plain and simple that the flash memory used in this drive is not very fast, but keep in mind that this is a value product.

It is backed by a solid five year warranty from Kingston and this is a very attractive option for portable data storage and transfer. The weight of this USB is 11.3 gram.

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