Kingston DataTraveler I Generation 2 - 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive DTIG2/4GB (Yellow)
by Kingston Digital, Inc.
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Manufacturer: Kingston Digital, Inc.Audio: English (Original Language)
Model: DTIG2/4GB
Color: Yellow
Product features:
- Convenient ¿ pocket-sized for easy transportability
- Simple ¿ just plug into a USB port
- Practical ¿ no cap to lose; USB connector protected withn case
- Fashionable ¿ available in multiple colors by capacity: 2GB, gray 4GB, yellow 8GB, cyan 16GB, red 32GB, dark green
- Guaranteed ¿ five-year warranty
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Customer Review: The SLOWEST USB Flash Disk I own bar NONE
Summary: 1 Stars
These Kingston DataTraveler G2 4GB drives are ABSOLUTE GARBAGE. Make no mistake.
I went out and bought six different Flash Drives today, as I am trying to find the fastest for the lowest price. I need a fast drive that I can buy in bulk and ship to our customers. The drives I bought are:
Sandisk Cruzer Blade 4GB - Cost $12.88
Lexar Jumpdrive TwistTurn 4GB - $13.60
Imation 2GB - $7.98
Sandisk Cruzer 4GB (Latest design) - $12.95
Imation Atom 4GB - $24.00
Kingston DataTraveler G2 4GB - $9.95
By far the best is the tiny Imation Atom, obviously the cost is more but the write speed was double the other drives, and the read speed was sigificantly better also. And the WORST by a huge margin was the hideous Kingston DataTraveler G2, which set new levels of crap performance. I tested all drives vigorously both by benchmark tools (I used CrystalDiskMark, a great free drive speed tester, and USBDeview also free) and practical tests like copying a 400MB folder of typical image files from HDD to the USB drives. I tried changing the formatting, using FAT, FAT32 and exFAT and different allocation unit sizes.
In every case the performance results from the Kingston DataTraveler G2 SUCKED like an industrial vacuum. Copying a single huge file (where USB drives do best) got me the tragic transfer rate of 2.3MB per second at absolute best. Copying a random folder of 30-200k images dropped the speed to just over 1MB per second. Best case read figures were around 5.7MB / second which is also hideous compared to any other drive I tested.
The best case read and write figures for all drives are summarized here:
Imation Atom 4GB
Read - 22.0MB/s Huge Files Write - 7.8MB/s Small Files Write - 4.4MB/s
Sandisk Cruzer Blade 4GB
Read - 18.8MB/s Huge Files Write - 4.3MB/s Small Files Write - 1.1MB/s
Sandisk Cruzer 4GB (Latest design)
Read - 17.5MB/s Huge Files Write - 4.4MB/s Small Files Write - 1.0MB/s
Lexar Jumpdrive TwistTurn 4GB
Read - 16.4MB/s Huge Files Write - 3.8MB/s Small Files Write - 1.0MB/s
Imation 2GB
Read - 10.3MB/s Huge Files Write - 4.3MB/s Small Files Write - 1.1MB/s
Kingston DataTraveler G2 4GB
Read - 5.7MB/s Huge Files Write - 2.4MB/s Small Files Write - 0.5MB/s
Clearly the Imation Atom is the genius of the bunch (also the most expensive by far), whereas the Kingston DataTraveler G2 stands alone as the severely retarded kid. It runs at half the read speed of the cheapest drive (Imation 2GB), and is around a third of the peak read speed of the others in the similar price bracket.
I also briefly tested some older drives I had, including some Cruzer Micros (old design, which performed MUCH better than the new models), Cruzer Titanium 4GB, Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB, and a Lexar Retrax. All did much better than the Kingston 'plastic embarrassment'.
Quite frankly I have never seen a USB drive as bad as the Kingston DataTraveler G2. I cannot understand the positive ratings people are giving this drive. If you are stuck with one of these steaming nuggets already, feel free to download the free tools mentioned earlier and confirm the results for yourself. If not, breathe a sigh of relief and buy something else.
Note: I have no affiliation, nor personal beef with any manufacturers, and no agenda other than trying to spare other buyers from getting burned with these things. Pick another manufacturer, any manufacturer, but steer clear of Kingston, people.
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