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This is a very short review for a very small but handy product.
Review on BlackHoleTec
Introduction
Kingston is happy to introduce their newest and fastest Datatraveler to the mass.
The Kingston Datatraveler Ultimate g3 is the successor of the g2 edition that launched some years ago and the g3 is set to beat his predecessor in every way possible.
When you look at the past years, USB write and read speeds have quickly increased.
This is the point where it almost reaches the regular HDD speed.
On the package, you can clearly read that Kingston offers 5 years of warranty which is pretty much and certainly something that some people may interest.
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Design
Kingston succeeded to give the USB stick a stylish and at the same time solid design.
The USB has also a little ring on the back that can be used to put it on your keyring. The design of the stick just scream quality and we're positively surprised by this part of the stick.
The only little negative thing we feel about the product is the sliding mechanism that could get damaged after using it for a long period of time. The connector of the stick is also exposed and that's where a cap could have been better.
A cap however, is easy to lose. The plastic that you can see when you slide the metal over the connector looks a little cheap though. There's a little blue led when you stick it into the USB port from your pc.
After all, we aren't dissappointed by this part.
Showcase
Performance
We used the ATTO disk benchmark and CrystalDiskMark which are both accurate read and write benchmarks.
What we're expecting to see is a 150MB/s seq read speed and a 70MB/s seq write speed, let's see how this numbers live up to their expectations!
The CrystalDiskMark benchmark does show a better write speed, but the read speed is a little less than expected on this one.
The ATTO benchmark shows almost exact the same read speed which is showing 114,7 MB/s. The writing speed is a little less and gives us a around 91 MB/s, it's still 21MB/s more than expected.
Kingston didn't provide the exact numbers like expected, but these numbers still measure top of the line performance and we can clearly say that this stick can be counted to the higher end devices.
Conclusion
The Kingston Datatraveler Ultimate G3 gives us awesome read and write performance packed in a pretty stylish design. Some results were lower than expected, some were better, but after all the performance of this stick can be named as performance of the highest class. The stick has some little nice features like the 5 year warranty, the ring to connect it to your ringchain and the beautiful blue led on top of the stick.*All of this together for a reasonable price.
Underneath this, you'll find our opinion in little numbers which may be more informative for some people.
Performance = 9/10
Design = 9/10
Value = 9/10
Total Score = 9/10
Review on BlackHoleTec
Introduction
Kingston is happy to introduce their newest and fastest Datatraveler to the mass.
The Kingston Datatraveler Ultimate g3 is the successor of the g2 edition that launched some years ago and the g3 is set to beat his predecessor in every way possible.
When you look at the past years, USB write and read speeds have quickly increased.
This is the point where it almost reaches the regular HDD speed.
On the package, you can clearly read that Kingston offers 5 years of warranty which is pretty much and certainly something that some people may interest.
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Design
Kingston succeeded to give the USB stick a stylish and at the same time solid design.
The USB has also a little ring on the back that can be used to put it on your keyring. The design of the stick just scream quality and we're positively surprised by this part of the stick.
The only little negative thing we feel about the product is the sliding mechanism that could get damaged after using it for a long period of time. The connector of the stick is also exposed and that's where a cap could have been better.
A cap however, is easy to lose. The plastic that you can see when you slide the metal over the connector looks a little cheap though. There's a little blue led when you stick it into the USB port from your pc.
After all, we aren't dissappointed by this part.
Showcase
Performance
We used the ATTO disk benchmark and CrystalDiskMark which are both accurate read and write benchmarks.
What we're expecting to see is a 150MB/s seq read speed and a 70MB/s seq write speed, let's see how this numbers live up to their expectations!
The CrystalDiskMark benchmark does show a better write speed, but the read speed is a little less than expected on this one.
The ATTO benchmark shows almost exact the same read speed which is showing 114,7 MB/s. The writing speed is a little less and gives us a around 91 MB/s, it's still 21MB/s more than expected.
Kingston didn't provide the exact numbers like expected, but these numbers still measure top of the line performance and we can clearly say that this stick can be counted to the higher end devices.
Conclusion
The Kingston Datatraveler Ultimate G3 gives us awesome read and write performance packed in a pretty stylish design. Some results were lower than expected, some were better, but after all the performance of this stick can be named as performance of the highest class. The stick has some little nice features like the 5 year warranty, the ring to connect it to your ringchain and the beautiful blue led on top of the stick.*All of this together for a reasonable price.
Underneath this, you'll find our opinion in little numbers which may be more informative for some people.
Performance = 9/10
Design = 9/10
Value = 9/10
Total Score = 9/10
We decided to give the Kingston Datatraveler Ultimate 3.0 G3 a gold award!
More Information about our awards can be found here
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