Product Description

You¿ve trusted Kingston¿s DataTraveler with your most important files. Now Kingston proudly introduces the sleek and capless DataTraveler 100. It holds all your documents in an affordable, convenient device and helps budget-conscious users break storage barriers, allowing them to easily store and move large files in a device no bigger than a pocketknife. DataTraveler 100 was built with simplicity in mind, allowing you to focus on your data. The USB connector is safely housed inside the sleek case, so you don¿t have to worry about losing a cap. DataTraveler 100 is available in capacities up to 16GB to give you plenty of room to hold just about any document, from term papers and theses to digital images, spreadsheets or other important documents. Backed by a five-year warranty and Kingston¿s legendary service and support, DataTraveler 100 is a reliable, inexpensive solution for carrying digital files with you anywhere you go.

Product Details

• Size: 16 GB
• Color: BLACK
• Brand: Kingston
• Model: DT100/16GB
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.64" h x .35" w x .80" l, .3 pounds
• Hard Disk: 16GB

Features

• Compliant ¿ designed to Hi-Speed USB 2.0 specifications
• Convenient ¿ pocket-sized for easy transportability
• Simple ¿ just plug and play into a USB port
• Practical ¿ USB connector protected within case
• Guaranteed ¿ five-year warranty

Customer Reviews

Well Made, Good Value, But a Little Slow...
This is a nicely made flash drive with plenty of room for lots of big files. And, it is a good value for the money compared to other 16 GB flash drives. Also, I like the retractable USB connector - it slides in and out easily via a little tab on the side. And, once extracted, a little indent clicks in so that the connector will not be forced into the drive when the drive is inserted into a USB port.

On the negative side, it doesn't have an LED indicating read/write access. This is a minor issue to me, but thought it deserved mention. Another con, however, might be a bit more of an issue for some people. This flash drive is a bit slow compared to two others I have. I ran some simple benchmarks, copying files to this drive as well as two others: a 2 GB "no name" flash drive (drive "A" in the results below) I got for free at a computer store as a promo about a year ago, and a Lexar 256 MB drive (drive "B" below) that is a least two years old. I copied two sets of files as detailed below & timed the results with a stop watch. No other folders / files were on the drives when I copied the files. I conducted the tests twice on each drive - the times given are an average. (I did not conduct any read tests, just these write tests).

File set "1": 2 folders, 1 containing 192 files / 20 MB, the other 72 files / 8.63 MB
File set "2": 1 folder, containing 23 sub-folders w/ 495 files / 31.7 MB

And, the test results:

Drive "A" (No Name, 2 GB)
File set "1": 18 sec.
File set "2": 27 sec.

Drive "B" (Lexar, 256 MB)
File set "1": 26 sec.
File set "2": 50 sec.

This Kingston 16 GB drive
File set "1": 30 sec.
File set "2": 75 sec.

As the results of this admittedly fairly unscientific test show, this drive was the slowest of the bunch - almost twice as slow as the 2 GB drive for file set "1", and over twice as slow as the 256 MB drive on file set"2".

So, if speed is an issue for you, you may want to look elsewhere (and perhaps spend more money as a result). But, since I needed space over speed, and I wanted to spend as little as possible, I still gave this flash drive 4 stars.

16 GB DataTraveler is good, but....
The 16 GB version of the Kingston DataTraveler is fine, but with one caveat. That is, it is much faster if the file system is converted to NTFS. All of the USB thumb drives (and most external hard drives I have found) come formatted with FAT32. I know that this is for compatibility with older versions of Windows (and MACs?), but if you are using a Windows system with at least Win XP on it, the drive is much faster if its file system is converted to NTFS. Other than this issue, the drive seems to work fine and is very fast now that it is using NTFS.

keeps on ticking
I washed this little item and freaked out because I had just transfered all my family photos over because I was afraid of my computer crashing. It had sat in the little space between the door and the washer for two washes. I dried it out (for 2 days) and tried it. It didn't even loose one picture.