How many of you carry USB Flash drives or hard drives with you? Personally I prefer carrying USB flash drive than portable hard disk. The reason is Hard disk has mechanical parts which may get damage if dropped accidentally or due to any other event.
Thanks to Kingston for sending this Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 flash drive. HyperX is Kingston’s premium line of Flash storage device.
Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 – Package
The Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0Â comes in a plastic wrapper. It contains the flash drive, instructions and HyperX branding sticker.
Hardware
Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0Â USB flash drive looks slightly bigger than the usual USB flash drives. HyperX Go comes in blue colour and has rubber and plastic shell. Â The combination of blue colour and the materials used makes this USB flash drive look and feel Premium. It comes with a cap that protects the USB port. This USB port is blue in colour to indicate that this flash drive is USB 3.0. There is a big lanyard hole at the back of the USB flash drive to attach it to key-chains or other loops.
Performance
The performance of the Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 USB drive is more important than the premium feel and build quality. The 128 GB drive I received has a user storage capacity of 118 GB storage. By default this flash drive comes in FAT32 Partition.
This flash drive is specially designed for USB 3.0. It also works with USB 2.0 ports. Android is one the widely used operating system and supports external Flash Storage device apart from the Internal or MicroSD card. With a cheap OTG cable you can connect this USB drive to any android phone and access the files stored on the drive.
The Once the flash drive is connected to USB 3.0 Port it just take few seconds for the PC to detect the drive. A blue LED light will blink once flash drive is connected. It also shows the status of the read and write.
Speed Test
Speed test is important to show the average speed of the Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 USB flash drive. I used CrystalDiskMark on PC to test the flash drive. It reached almost 160 MB/s read and 110 MB/s write speed on USB 3.0 and 30 MB/S read and 25 MB/s write speed on USB 2.0.
Like I said before Android Supports external storage by default. I connected this flash drive to android Phone (Moto G) using a cheap OTG cable. I used SD tools to test the read and write speed of this flash drive connected to android device. It achieved read speed of 145 MB/S and write speed of 34 MB/s. Read speed is pretty fast. With this speed I can play any HD movies of videos from the flash drive itself. Since Flash drive is 128 GB I don’t have to worry about additional space on phone.
Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0Â works with every operating system.
Conclusion
Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 is an absolute value for the money. It is supported on every operating system. The transfer speed is lightning fast. With a cheap OTG cable we can make this flash drive works with android phones and tablets. this flash drive is available in single colour blue and black combination and available in 64 GB 128 GB and 256 GB of storage. If you are looking for a fast USB 3.0 Flash drive with enough storage, I recommend you take the Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 into consideration.