Sometimes you need to transfer some data from device to device, so you plug in a USB flash drive to copy a few movies, documents, or other files. And sometimes… you want to transfer more data than your computer can hold. That’s where Kingston’s new USB flash drives come in.
Kingston has unveiled the world’s first flash drive with a whopping 2TB of storage.
I’m honestly not sure what I’d use it for, but I’m still impressed that it’s possible to cram so much storage capacity into a device that measures 2.8″ x 1.1″ x 0.8″.
The DataTraveler Ultimate GT is a USB 3.1 drive with a shock-resistant zinc-alloy case. It will be available in both 1TB and 2TB versions.
Kingston hasn’t revealed the price yet, but something tells me the new DataTraveler Ultimate G won’t exactly be cheap when it hits the streets in February.
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I use 128GB USB drives to backup photos while I am traveling. I could see these being useful to photographers or maybe videographers to back up when on the road.
1 and 2 TB flash drives have been out for a while if you were ok with a chinese knockoff brand.
I’d be surprised if that were the actual capacity of any of them. It’s a well known scam to get say an 8GB drive and rewrite the firmware so it appears as say 512GB, but when you try to write more than 8GB it just writes over the same flash again and again.
I’ve had reliability problems with Kingston products
so they’re off my list. The only brands I’d consider
are SanDisk, Samsung, Lexar (Micron), and Toshiba.
The 4 companies on the acceptable list make their
own flash memory, with SanDisk and Toshiba sharing
production facilities. (SanDisk started out life as a
joint venture with Toshiba).
Same thing for me. I bought a Kingston usb which I used to store photos of the birth of my first child. Needless to say that I was frustrated to several of the photos unrecoverable because of the usb quality.
Useful for 4K videos. cca 40x 4K movies. Not bad.
You will need a very large keyring, however. But seriously folks, you can get tiny M.2 SSD usb enclosures, which at least means you have a real controller… I also agree that Kingston is generally 2nd-class, I tend to avoid their products.