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Kingston launches its first 3.0 USB thumb drive

adina — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:49:20 +0000

On September 14, 2010, Kingston revealed its first USB 3.0 thumb drive – the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0. The new drive is available in three capacities, at 16GB, 32GB and 64GB, providing, compared to the USB 2.0, much faster transfer speeds. Practical estimates show that it has a write speed of 60MBps and a read speed of 80MBps.

In order to guarantee backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 drives, there is a Y cable included with each Ultimate 3.0 thumb drive. According to Kingston’s tests, a 3.9GB movie may be copied to the drive in only 1 minute and 13 seconds. Kingston’s 16GB Ultimate 3.0 USB drive will be sold under a $89 price tag, the 32GB variant will cost $138, while the 64GB model will be priced at $270.

Release of 512GB SSDNow V+ TRIM-supported from Kingston

adina — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:19:39 +0000

Kingston has released the second generation of its SSDNow V+ solid-state drive that is faster than the current model and includes Windows 7 TRIM support. The device is available in higher capacities going up to 512GB. Sequential read speed of the drive is 230Mbps while sequential write speed is 180Mbps.

TRIM support refers to the fact that the drive can maintain this speed performance throughout its lifespan. The MLC NAND flash drive is rated at 1 million hours between successive failures.

The price for the SSDNow V+ with a 512GB capacity is $1,969. In case of a bundled version with a 2.5-inch USB enclosure, SATA data, mounting brackets from 2.5 inches up to 3.5 inches, power cables and cloning software, the supplementary price will be $15.

Unusual Deal – Movies on Flash Memory

adina — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:05 +0000

Movies available on SD cards or USB flash drives may sound strange enough but this is the subject of a most recent deal concluded between Kingston and Paramount. The latter’s movies could be sold on such media in the near future. The two partners didn’t provide any details on the formats but it’s certain that the movies will come both in bundles and individually.

Providing movies on other storage than optical could contribute to a wider spreading of video productions to systems not provided with DVD or Blu-ray drives, such as handhelds or netbooks. In order to fit into 2GB of memory or even less, movies will be in standard definition.

The two companies didn’t mention the release date yet.

New 40GB SATA Drive by Kingston

adina — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:06:42 +0000

Kingston’s new 2.5-inch SATA drive named SSDNow V is meant to cover a specific area of storage devices. It’s a 40GB boot drive and it isn’t intended to be used as a traditional primary storage. Its destination is that of a system drive, able to speed up the operating system and critical applications as well. It’s inexpensive enough to be paired with a second rotating disk drive, much larger, that would handle common storage and applications. The speed of the new drive is 170MB per second for reading and 40MB per second for writing and, even if not the fastest, it’s still almost four times faster than a conventional drive.

The SSDNow V drive ships on November 9th and will be available in two versions. The first one is for notebooks, priced at $115. The second one is presented in a 3.5-inch mounting bracket provided with extenders to have attached a main board’s power and SATA cables, priced at $130.

Kingston Upgrades the DataTraveler 410 USB Flash Drive

caitas — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:31:40 +0000

Last week, on Tuesday, Kingston Company released new information regarding the updates the organization plans to make to its DataTraveler 410 USB flash drive. Kingston plans to enhance the writing and reading speeds of its gadgets up to 120 MBps. Due to the SecureTraveler software, the organization`s flash drive devices can memorize data under the security provided by passwords and can be purchased in versions that comprise even 32 GB of internal memory capacity. This password protection feature is compatible with the Windows operating system, but not with the Mac OS X and Linux. However, all the operating systems are able to support the DataTraveler 410 USB flash drive to store the data.

Kingston`s DataTraveler 410 USB flash drive can be purchased in various versions such as: the 4GB variant for $26, the 8GB for $46, 16GB for the purchasing price of $84 and, last but not least, the 32GB flash device for $134.