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Synthetic benchmarking is useful as it gives us a good indication of ultimate drive performance under scientific conditions, however people are using these drives under real world conditions – for example to copy across files and to backup important data.
For our first test, we located an 8 gigabyte MKV file on our OCZ Agility 2 SSD drive and copied it across to the Kingston Data Traveler Ultimate 64 GB unit recording the time taken under both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 situations.
Copying our 8GB file to the drive took 2 mins and 31 seconds which when repeated under USB 2.0 limitations took a whopping 6 minutes and 15 seconds. This is much faster and is clearly a huge time saver if you need to move large files between drives.
Our next test involved copying a 5GB folder of mixed file sizes. Word documents, music files, image folder and a few movie clips. This is going to be very much a real situation for many people who will be backing up folders with a multitude of files within them.
In this test we can further see the gains to be had when using the drive under USB 3.0 situations with the time reducing from 8 minutes and 21 seconds to 4 minutes and 44 seconds.
I am sold, but not just yet, still 6 months life left in my current drive and motherboard. next time, absolutely. Hopefully they bring out USB 3 capable laptops to mainstream shortly also. its a shocking situation. Great drive from kingston.
A lot of cash to part with, but in 6 months these will be half the price. looks like a great first effort from Kingston
USB 3.0, it hasnt been promoted that highly, kudos to kingston for getting the ball rolling.
Very nice looking drive, Never see kingston locally here though, only online.
I am REALLY glad to see this review up. not because im about to go out and blow 150 quid on a flash drive, but because it is about bloody time that someone got USB 3.0 seen, and kingston deserve a pat on the back for this. The standard is a long way from becoming mainstream I fear however.
I’m also glad that Kingston redesigned their enclosure for the flash drive. A lot of the flash drives I have from them look a little silly and the plastic feels really cheap. Kudos to Kingston.