64GB DataTraveler DT150
by Kingston
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Customer Review: I was sold a FAKE version of this product!
Summary: 1 Stars
Bought this product via Amazon marketplace for $79.99 + shippping. Drive would not format NTFS. Tried on two laptops xp and vista and read all FAQs on Kingstons website. Tried to submit a helpdesk tkt on Kingstons website however the 'Bill of Material' number does not exist (even on the packaging). Called Kingston, they advise that an orginal Kingston product has this number laser embossed on the jack of the drive - this is clearly a FAKE product (Made in Taiwan). Kingston advise that they investigating Amazon on as they've already received a number of complaints and they are using the Kingston brand name. Called Amazon to report this and they advise that the reseller has already refunded my account - before I even made a request for a refund (hmmm sounds a bit suspect!) I would not trust anything under around the $140 mark for this product to be genuine. I have emailed all the resellers under $140 to question if the product they are selling is genuine - will update you on this. BE CAREFUL BEFORE YOU BUY THIS ONE!Kingston DataTraveler 64 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive DT150/64GB (Red/Black)Customer Review: What do any of it's other niceties matter if data is corrupted?
Summary: 1 Stars
Trash... repeatedly got the dreaded Windows "Delayed Write Failure" message after multiple periods of time copying mp3's to the drive from my laptop hard drive. The timing of the failure message would vary from anywhere between 5 and 10 minutes. Many of the files would be in the range of 10 - 20 MB in size...
At a glance, I would be able to copy the files again after ejecting and re-inserting the drive. But there is now MASSIVE data corruption on the drive...
Certain folders show signs of hundreds of invalid sub-directories - some marked hidden, some marked system, all of them with corrupt characters for names... like:
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So, I wonder what the problem is... Is Kingston just contracting out the manufacture of this product to vastly inferior facilities in China? Or is this hopefully some correctable firmware/microcode bug that can be fixed with some sort of code update?
How dissapointing... the sort of experience that will guarantee I never buy anything remotely related to the Kingston brand ever again.
Customer Review: for a non techie, this thing works like a charm
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had a few USB flash drives in the last few years. Purchased from Costco (all types), from Fry's (Sandisk and some general no names) and finally decided that I wanted a true large capacity flash drive. I read the reviews where people had liked the speed and ease. I also read about some Kingston flash drives that people had thought was much slower. I can say for my 4 systems(XP on multiple HP desktop systems purchased from 2004 thru 2008, XP Pro on Lenovo T61 laptop) and this drive works like a dream. It did not require me to download or install any driver/software. Worked out of the box, and transferred 30 GB's(10 GB's at a time at about 10 min. each batch) of data. I am satisfied and I do believe it was faster. I can't wholly remember as I did not think it was slow at all. I now take it whereever I go if I need to pull up any of my past photos or documents in a jiffy. And the $116 price tag was well worth it.Customer Review: a USB drive or a USB park?
Summary: 1 Stars
Bought this an archive for a laptop with limited onboard disk. What a disappointment. First I had to reformat it from FAT to NTFS because it couldn't handle folders with many files. Not that there was any kind of warning, it just kept failing after copying a certain number of files. Eventually I figured it out from web searching that there was a file limit. After reformatting, copying 5 GB of data took several nights. Yes, not minutes, not hours, but several nights. Fine, I thought, I'm just going to read it, writing is a one time operation. So the day comes when I want to read something from the archive. The drive comes up dead. Two different PCs say it is an unformatted drive. It read fine after I wrote it, but sitting on a shelf a couple of months was apparently enough to kill it. Glad I had a less portable archive also made. Hard to see how this can be considered anything but a piece of junk.Customer Review: *****Buyer Beware*****
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought 2 of these units from this seller, and received them promptly. I found that neither worked. They were green and white, and not red and black--which matters less than the fact they failed to store any information correctly, failed to identify themselves as Kingtston devices in Windows, and failed to format. Trying to return them met with non sensical communications at first, then after an appeal to Amazon's A-Z warranty program, I was able to return them. I would have lost 15% plus shipping except for Amazon's warranty that finally delivered my full refund. I own another Kingston 64 GB flash drive I bought a year ago--I had no problems with it at all, and it readily identifies itself as Kingston, as do all the other Kingston drives of all sizes that I own. It seems very strange that these "made in China" devices failed to do so, and did not work.