Kingston's Brand New Data Traveller 300 USB Flash Drive

When external storage devices are on the rise in PC markets, i had a feeling that the once-dominant source of portable storage, the USB drive, is going to be degraded. My doubts are pretty justified as well; even the lowest standard of external hard drives have a capacity of up to a hundred GB, while a better-designed external hard drive offers more, with the additional benefits of higher file transfer rate per second. I thought that people would still prefer flash drive at the end of the day but no; they do not really care about the more bulky size of the external hard disk...in fact, the generally smaller capacity of USB flash drive in addition to its lower data transfer rate is the reason why some users turn their back on it.

Users are no longer just storing something simple in their storage devices such as a document, a picture, or an audio file. They carry a full collection of games & software installers, videos & movies, which are massive in size. If a movie has a file size of more than 1 GB, imagine those users with a passion for collecting movies; they would need literally dozens of USB flash drives in order to contain those files!

Regardless of its downside, you can't deny that flash drive is still much more portable than an external hard disk. Which is why i believe they will never die in the market...at least if research and development continues, which Kingston Technology Company did.

Kingston Technology Company, a UK company famous for supplying memory-based hardware, delivered the world’s first ever 256 GB USB Flash Drive that possesses the highest capacity available in the market.

Kingston Data Traveler 300's capability of storing 256 GB of data superseded Kingston USB Flash Drive's previous highest storage volume at 126 GB. In addition to the high capacity, the new flash drive comes with a newly-designed Password Traveler software, meaning that your precious data can be password protected at will. It allows you to create and access a password protected, secure area of the drive called a “Privacy Zone”, which can take up to 90% of the drives capacity.

In case you're wondering who suits DataTraveler 300, this USB flash drive is perfect for those looking for both significant storage capacity and data protection in a lightweight, durable design. Data Traveler 300 is made up of a retractable USB connector and reinforced lanyard/ key-ring hole – the entire structure is built to withstand daily use like normal USB flash drives. The USB drive supports data transfer speeds of upto 20MB/sec read and 10MB/sec write. It can also be used for Windows Vista & Windows 7's ReadyBoost.

This is what Kingston estimated that the 256 GB flash drive will do for you in terms of storage:

• 10 Blu-ray discs (~25 GB each)
• 54 DVD discs (~4.7 GB each)
• 365 CD discs (~700 MB each)

Purchasers of DataTraveler 300 will be awarded a five-year warranty and 24/7 tech support.

The above information was extracted from Kingston's official web page for Data Traveller 300.