The Kingston DataTraveler Max is a high-performance USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C flash drive with a capacity of up to 1TB, ideal for transferring and storing large digital files such as HD photos, 4K/8K videos, music, and more.
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One of the best flash drives, given its price!! It easily reaches the speeds it promises when connected to a type-c GEN 2x2 port!! With the EXCEPTION of its build quality, which is not the best, and also the opening and closing mechanism! In the case of copying large files, its performance gradually drops quite a bit, but the write speed does not drop to zero like with other flash drives. However, if you are copying one file at a time, its speed is excellent!! In my case, since I will be using it ONLY for Ventoy, I think it's just fine!! To give you a better picture, copying 123GB of large files simultaneously took 20 minutes. In the screenshots, you can see measurements with Crystal Disk Mark with the flash drive empty and measurements with 52% used space. You will also see write speeds at the start and intermediate write speeds! I hope I helped those considering purchasing it!
Classic case of Kingston, good speed, bad design.
They made it so big that it risks damaging the usb-c port it plugs into, or the stick itself, but they made the metal part that attaches to the port so small that you need to remove the device from its case every time you want to use it.
2 out of 2.
Also, the plastic sliding part of it is completely useless, no resistance to the slightest force and on the fourth time it got a little stuck, it came off.
So in this condition it will stay at home, the DataTraveler is not for traveling!
Seriously fast USB, I've had it for a week and I can say that I've never had such a fast USB before. It's not the most economical, but for its speed, I don't think there is a more economical one.
Excellent, it is definitely the fastest flash drive available. It uses the SMI 2320 controller which offers 2 gigabytes/s on USB 3.2 Gen 2, so in order to enjoy this speed, you need to have a corresponding port on your computer. You can see that the read test reached the promised 1 gigabyte/s, but I found the write speed to be somewhat slower than promised (700 instead of 900 gigabytes/s). Nevertheless, it is the fastest flash drive I have seen for transferring large volumes and I highly recommend it if your computer has a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port. Its dimensions are 9x20x82mm and it weighs 12g. So it is quite bulky for a flash drive but very small for an SSD, and its performance puts it in the SSD category. Its casing is plastic, with a keychain ring and a sliding cover that covers the USB port. I was incredibly satisfied. *****
Awesome stick (hard disk) is extremely fast!! The only drawback is the width size.. I use it on a MacBook Air M1 which has only 2 type-C ports and as soon as I plug it in, it disables the other port due to its size. I have tried using a hub but it doesn't recognize it at all. It only wants a direct connection.. that's the only thing that bothers me, otherwise it's simply excellent.
Although my computer does not support USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 (10Gbps), I have much better speeds than any other flash drive I have tested. However, after a minute, the speed drops to around 100-140 MB/s. That means it can write about 25 GB in one minute.
**With Thunderbolt 4, it can reach its maximum theoretical speed!
UPDATE 9.7.2023: I am changing my rating to 1 star, if I could, I would give it a big zero as well. I saved important files at night which I couldn't find the next day. UNACCEPTABLE, and I am not a beginner. Stay away. I lost weeks of work!!!
Incredible speeds
Fully utilizes the USB 3.2 Gen 2 protocol
Does exactly what it promises
Your choice without any hesitation
Connected to 3.1 as I do not have the upgraded 3.2 on both desktop and laptop. The speeds I see are up to 320 MBs/sec, but here, just like with a Corsair GTX, in large file sizes either individually or as a whole, it slows down after a while. It is still faster than the Corsair, of course, and cheaper. It is made of plastic, it doesn't heat up as much as I saw, probably less than other fast USB sticks I have. I solved the lack of a type-C port on the desktop with a USB 3.2 to type-C adapter.
It actually reaches 900 speed. It is one of the fastest flash drives that have passed through my hands. If you don't have USB 3.2 and SSD M.2, don't expect to see such speeds. Ideal for video editing on a Mac. It achieves slightly faster speeds than the Samsung T7.