Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT 1024 GB

Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT flash drive impresses with its record-breaking capacity on board, commensurate with the volume of external HDDs, and a price tag of around $1000. This is a unique product of the American brand, which is a direct rival to "hard drives", not USB drives.

Drive-record holder

The younger version of the model got "only" 1 TB of memory. You can fill the entire available volume “to the eyeballs” in about an hour, since the high-speed performance of the flash drive is accompanied by fast data exchange: reading occurs at a speed of over the claimed 300 MB / s, and writing — 200 MB / s(as indicated on the package). The numbers are relevant for the connection method via USB 3.0 and 3.1 interfaces.

Accessory case

The drive comes in a metal case with a carefully stowed carrying bag and a USB extension cable. The presence of the last accessory is a mandatory attribute of the model, because when it is connected directly to the USB port, access to adjacent connectors is inevitably blocked due to the bulky dimensions of the flash drive (72x27x21 mm).

No alternatives

The Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT has an interesting implementation of the retractable connector mechanism: the USB plug emerges from the “body” of the model by shifting one of the case halves towards itself. The “outfit” of a flash drive made of galvanized metal plays the role of a heat sink and protects components from failure when exposed to external factors (high and low temperatures, shock during falls, etc.). And although the drive is fabulously expensive, there are simply no other alternatives to it. The only exception is the closest relative of an even larger model in the face of the Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT 2TB.