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

I got this flash drive so I could download my music it great

I see a lot of complaints here about how slow this stick is. For me on my USB 2.0 desktop machines and TVs, its plenty fast and just as fast as the others in read mode. Its really small size and flip/click open/close with no end cap is a real bonus on this. The lettering on it does not stand out either like on other Kingston sticks. I like how it cannot really be seen on the side panel on my Samsung HD TV. I also find those usb external hard drives go bad quick and now use this stick also as a 64GB external hard drive. Gonna buy more!

Unfortunately, I have to agree with the reviews that state this drive is just too slow to write. The text USB 3.0 speeds in the product description must be considered false advertising. Im getting between 2 and 8 MB per second in a USB3 port. That doesnt even approach a USB2 equivalent speed. Its not like this is my only flash drive; I know how quickly the data should be transferring with this hardware. (Surely Kingston didnt think we wouldnt notice...?) As others have shown with their metrics, this drive is just painfully slow. At least it was cheap, I guess. And eventually, it holds the data you put on it. So its semi-useful... as long as youre not waiting for it to finish writing before you can move on with your next task. Would not buy again.

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.

(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!

where is another 13 GB ? I thought the material is stronger,but also normal.in general,speed is also not very normal, a normal product But I did not understand where 13 GB ?!

I love Kingston products. Never had any issues. This flashdrive is easy to use. Holds information well. The only thing I find a bit disappointing is that speed in transfer is a little slower than what I expected and used to. Other than that its a great product with fair price.

Certain types of files will take a while. Its not a fast drive. But I bought it so that I could transfer folders between computers. So it does the job. However, its as slow as a USB 2.0 drive.

I should have read the reviews more carefully. I have used an older Generation 2 Kingston DataTraveler since 2014, and it has always been great, so I trusted the brand. However, this generation of the device is... awful. It is incredibly, incredibly slow, both to read and to write. Sluggish. Unusable. Opening a folder takes 20-30 seconds, even if the contents are virtually nil. I dont have to run a speed test to know that something is terribly wrong here. Im not trying anything too sophisticated... I just wanted to open a PDF, and that shouldnt take three minutes of my time. Furthermore, this drive spontaneously shuts off when not in use. Every morning that Ive had it plugged into either my work PC or my personal Mac, I wake up my computer to a grumpy alert about unplugging it without properly ejecting it... even though it is still plugged in. Im sure there must be some way to disable that feature, but honestly, the drive is so slow that there is no point in me researching that, because I have already ordered its replacement. This is bad. Stay away.

Some of my projects require transferring a large amount of data, and my 32GB flash drives were no longer keeping up. Ive always had good luck with Kingston so I didnt hesitate to order (both a 64GB and 128GB version). I only wished I would have read the other reviews before doing so. I had to transfer about 80GB of data so I plugged the drive into my Mac Pro. The machine recognized it, although it took a good 5-10 seconds before it appeared in the list of drives. I started the transfer and after reviewing the files told me it would take about a day to transfer. Ha - ok, Ill let it run overnight. Looked at it the next morning and it was still going! No joke. I had to do a repeat of the transfer and this time grabbed a small external USB 3.0 256GB SSD hard drive. I plugged it in and the computer saw it immediately. I started the transfer and it told me it would take about 40 minutes. I dont have the exact time that it took because I stepped away. But it was less than that. The speed with this flash drive is not what Im used to with other USB 3 devices. Im glad I didnt spend much on them because they will probably be put in the drawer and forgotten about!