So I need to conclude this review here, and well there’s not much more to say that I haven’t really covered above… Though if you check over at Amazon, the DT310 is going for about $878.95 and $999.99 from two different sellers. PNY 256GB FLASH DRIVE REVIEW PORTABLEThe OCZ 1TB SSD drive runs about $3.80 per GB, but then again it’s not exactly portable is it?! If we do the math that comes to about $4.33 per gigabyte which is well, outrageous, even SSDs aren’t priced that high. I have to mention the price here, yes it’s a bit over the top at $1108.00. All of them though perform a little bit better while on the USB3.0 interface. Here again we see the ordering remains the same with the DT310 coming in second place, not bad. I’m using a Gigabyte branded USB3.0 PCIE card, the review of which you’ll see soon.Īgain we’ll start off with ATTO Disk BenchMark.Īgain the other drives are a bit faster, but we also see that the DataTraveler 310 got faster as well we gained about 1mb/s in write speed and about 3mb/s in read speed on the USB3.0 interface. Next up is the tests using USB3.0 just because I’m curious and so you can know what to expect when everything moves to USB3.0… The next test I used SiSoft Sandra 2010 Portable Edition Removable Storage Test.Īccording to this test the DT310 is fairly fast coming in second place, not too shabby… The specs for the DT310 claim speeds of 25mb/s read speeds and 12mb/s write speeds, here we can see it hit 27mb/s and 17mb/s read/write. There is a surprise however when we look at the actual speed of the DT310, they’re faster than what Kingston claims them to be which is a good thing of course. So we’ll start off with the USB2.0 results and ATTO Disk BenchMark.Īs expected and as with any USB drive, the smaller ones are the fastest so there’s no surprise there. Since I’ve got USB3.0 on my system I’m testing the DataTraveler 310 and the other drives on both USB2.0 and USB3.0. I’ve got the Kingston DataTraveler 150, the Patriot Xporter Magnum and the OCZ Rally2. If you go back and look at the price of this USB drive you’ll see it’s a bit on the expensive side so I don’t have many of these just lying around, but I do have a few 64gb drives for comparison. PNY 256GB FLASH DRIVE REVIEW PDFWhen you actually open it up you’ll find a PDF file and the Password Traveler software to help secure your drive. When you plug in the DataTraveler 310 and check My Computer you’ll find you’ve really only got 238gb of space free. * Practical – loop supports most key rings * Safeguarded – includes Password Traveler * Convenient – does not require Administrator rights to access the Privacy Zone * Fast – data transfer rates of 25MB/sec. There’s plenty of room for movies, high-resolution photos, applications, graphics and other large files – all on a compact device not much larger than a standard USB drive. Kingston’s new DataTraveler 310 USB Flash drive features 256GB capacity, making it the highest capacity drive available on the market. Store more – with the highest capacity Flash drive available. It’s red and black and in color and it’s made of plastic and metal. Inside we find the drive itself along with a nylon strap so you can attach it to your keychain or wherever. The DT310 comes packaged in the familiar to us all sealed plastic clamshell style package. So I’ve got my hands on the Kingston DataTraveler 310 256gb USB Flash Drive, and you know we love our flash drive here at technogog, and one like this gets us a little more than excited! Anyway, I’ve run my tests on it and compared it to some other drives I’ve got on hand and I can tell you that it performs better than even Kingston claims in does, I got faster speeds for both reads and writes, so read on to learn more… They say size doesn’t matter, but I think it does… at least when it comes to a USB drives, and I’ll leave it at that… I’ve got an exclusive review for you, our friends over at Kingston have sent me a rather expensive USB drive, coming in at about $1100 it’s not one that most people will be running out and grabbing anytime soon I’m sure, but it’s one of the first on the market.
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