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

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.

I always trust Kingston Products, and this one is perfect

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.

Bought 7 of these for various use purposes e.g. OS installer/booter, run ESXi, live OS, etc... Solid product worked as expected on Windows and Mac, priced right, recommended!!! Tested read speed 124MBps, write between 19MBps to 24MBps. It took approximately 10 minutes copied 13GB file onto USB stick. Copied from USB stick to Windows desktop took less than 2 minutes.

Dejé de usarla por uno meses y se dañó solita.

For 9 dollars, its a decent buy. Crystal mark shows on my laptops usb 3.0 port (Intel USB) a read rate of 109 MB/s and 10.75 MB/s Real world data transfer of a 13 gig virtual disk file however shows a fairly sustained 10 megabytes copy rate to the drive and a disappointing 76 meg/sec copy rate from the drive back to the SSD C drive on my laptop. I didnt buy this for speed though. I bought it because its 16 gigs for 9 dollars and for that, I cant really fault it. I wish the actual use read speeds matched that of the synthetic benchmark.

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!

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.

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.

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