Kingston 32GB 100 G3 USB 3.0 DataTraveler (DT100G3/32GB) Black

I bought 2 of these and they both are the same speeds. The drive was formatted as Fat32. The write speed was 17mb. FAT32 works on anything, but only allows 4G size files at a time. I need to transfer files larger than that so I formatted it to EXFAT 64k cluster size. The speed now increased to 27.5MB steady. The read speed is 40MB steady. The speeds are nothing out of this world, but it is 7x faster than any stick I got thats just 2.0. So I am happy. Remember NTFS format does journaling and will lower the life of the drive. However, using NTFS you will retain encryption on the fly if you use Windows EFS to encrypt files. It would be much easier and faster if you was on the go and deal with lots of EFS encrypted User files. Every format has its ups and downs. Oh and windows will not format the 32GB back to FAT32. To do that you convert it instead. You do it in the CLI running cmd.exe To convert back to FAT32 you check the drive letter. In my case the drive is F: You type... CONVERT F: /FS:FAT32 Hope that helps! TTFN

It’s a thumb drive. It slides inside itself for protection. That’s all one could ask for.

Good Seller, Good Product, Fast Shipping. I purchased three of them.

At this price, you could NOT do better. Kingston is a solid name brand, and these USB 3.1, 32GB thumb drives are an exceptional value!

Good product

3 star because it’s Not true a true 3.0 usb stick. I’ve tried running Linux mint and Ubuntu on it for school and the boot up time it took was forever when trying to use my other brands of usb 3.0 the boot up time was in an instant. If you’re using it just to store files, pictures, and etc.. it’ll work just fine though, I purchased 2 needed them for school but now just using them to store files on.

Very good pen drive for the price. 32 GB is enough space and the price is just amazing.

1. It is not that large storage, but given that this is just for a specific event series of photos, then I know what capacity is, the size of all files, and this is economical to use and give to the ones who asked for them.

I bought a few of these as extras to keep around at work. Im in I.T. and find myself constantly lending out flash drives to people. These flash drives rarely make it back to me. So I keep a stash of cheap flash drives around for this reason. Obviously, since these things typically are not returned, I try not to spend much money on these flash drives. But I also need them to work so I generally get name brand flash drives. I bought a few of these 32GB Kingstons a while back and have good success with them, they arent the fastest things around I want to say they bench at around 120-140 MB/S read , but like most cheap USB 3.0 drives, they only write at around 40-70 MB/S. Which is good enough for what I need. The price was right, I think I paid something like $6.99 a piece for a few of them. At that price, I dont mind it too much if they never get returned to me after people borrow them.

Easily the worst flash drive I have ever used. When I received the order from Amazon I plugged it into my computer to backup and noticed it was taking hours to run, so I ran some tests with this flash drive to compare it to some older flash drives and this performed far worse than the old technology. Test computer: Older computer with USB 2.0 (not 3.0) Flash drives tested (all FAT formatted): 1. Kingston DT100G3 (subject of review) 2. Kingston DataTraveler DTI/8GB (roughly 5 years old) 3. SanDisk Cruzer 2GB (well over 5 years old) The Test: No other programs running. Xcopy script to copy files to the target flash drive. The same script and files were used for each flash drive. Plugged in #1 to USB 2.0 port Ran test for one minute Removed #1 and plugged in #2 in the same port Ran test for one minute Removed #2 and plugged in #3 in the same port Ran test for one minute The Results: 1. Kingston DT1000G3 (subject of review): 57 files/56MB 2. Kingston DTI/8GB: 283 files/143MB 3. SanDisk Cruzer: 525 files/158MB After being a Kingston flash drive user for years, this will be the last one I purchase.