Kingston DataTraveler Max Type-A 256GB High Performance USB Flash Drive USB 3.2 Gen 2 Up to 1000 MB/s Sliding Cap Design DTMAXA/256GB

Fastest Pen drive in India..
The average speed of this Kingston DataTaveler Max on a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port was found to be 3 times the average speed of Sandisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1. And on a USB 3.0 port, the average speed of Kingston DataTraveler Max was higher than Sandisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1.Even Price wise Kingston DataTraveller Max 256GB is 50% cheaper than Sandisk Extreme Pro USB3.1The speed of a Pen drive depends on many things:Speed Testing Purpose:if it’s used on speed testing software like CrystalDisk mark where we want to check if the speed mentioned by the manufacturer exists, then under such case we have to arrange the exact hardware required to achieve such speed. I used the pen drive on a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A Port for my test, thus I was able to achieve the manufacturer-claimed speed. But CrystalDiskMark uses the overall bus speed of the motherboard which in my case was 16GB/s(All motherboards having NVME Gen 4 or higher storage have 16GB/s Bus speed) thus it was able to attain the speed of approx. 1GB/s Read and write, but let’s suppose someone is using this pen drive on an older motherboard whose bus speed is 6GB/s( All motherboards having SATA SSD, M.2 SSD, NVME Gen 1 have bus speed of 6GB/s) then the maximum speed he/she could achieve would be maximum 550MB/s if used on a USB3.1/USB3.0 Type-A port.Practical Speed:The practical speed of the pendrive will vary between different storages. If files are copied or written to an HDD using USB 2.0 max speed is 35MB/s, an HDD using USB3.0 Max speed is 150MB/s, an SSD SATA using USB2.0 Max speed is 35MB/s, an SSD SATA using USB3.0 max speed is 550MB/s, an NVME Gen 1 using USB3.0 max speed of 550MB/s, on an NVME Gen 2 Using USB3.1 max speed is 550MB/s, on an NVME Gen 4 using USB 3.2 port max speed 1200MB/s and so on ….Speed also depends upon the type of file been copied or writtenLet’s suppose it’s a zipped file of 10GB the speed will be the highest, it’s a single video file of 10GB it will be relatively slower, it’s its multiple pictures all summing up to 10GB the speed will be the slowest.Thus, it depends upon many factors, it would be best to have specified hardware before buying if you are willing to achieve higher speeds.

Stopped working within 2 weeks
The pendrive stopped working within 2 weeks of buying it. It just shows up as unspecified in the device manager.

Lo mejor que tiene Kingston en la actualidad. La tasa de transferencia es una pasada no hay nada más rápido en el mercado en esa categoría. La construcción de entrada parece frágil pero no es así y uno se acostrumbra

The USB drive is larger then others but not overly bulky. I’ve read this unit has a built-in SSD and USB controller, but, I have to verify this. Once I find out I will update this (and find out if it supports SMART).I’m using this on both Gen 1 and Gen 2 USB ports (Gen 2 or better is required for full performance). Performance is as advertised.I’ve setup a MX Linux (KDE Plasma) Live Distro with persistent memory and it works great. I also have MX Linux (KDE plasma) on an external SSD with similar specs but I find the Kingston DataTraveler Max live Distro more applicable for my needs.With my system (Trigkey S5 5580H) it runs not much slower then the internal NVMe SSD. “F7” on bootup, I boot from the Kingston DataTraveler Max and I boot right into MX Linux (Plasma). I run this OS about 90% of the time, about 10% of the time I boot into Windows 11.While an external SSD with a good case (I use a Dockcase with 10s PLP) and SMART would likely result in better performance and would be more versatile (especially with partitions) the performance of this key is similar and in a much smaller form factor.Well worth the money (I’ll buy another one soon) and a great option for Linux Live Distros especially if you have a Gen2 or better port and require SSD-like performance off a USB drive.