Kingston DataTraveler Exodia USB Flash Drive - 256GB

Wanted some good storage, and does this.
However, Big However, the write speed is terrible, cycles it's write from a peak to most times sitting at 1Mb/s to times wondering if the flash drive has crashed.
Not normal for a Kington USB drive, have other Kingston =<64Gb storage sizes that go at a steady higher write speeds.

Was a good deal, Black Friday sale Wanted some good storage, and does this.
However, Big However, the write speed is terrible, cycles it's write from a peak to most times sitting at 1Mb/s to times wondering if the flash drive has crashed.
Not normal for a Kington USB drive, have other Kingston =<64Gb storage sizes that go at a steady higher write speeds.

Was a good deal, Black Friday sale

Regularly drops below 1MB/s when writing. My old style drives can do 35MB/s (consistently above 25Mb/s). Regularly drops below 1MB/s when writing. My old style drives can do 35MB/s (consistently above 25Mb/s).

This is by far the slowest USB drive I have - it is currently transferring a large file >4GB at 1.5 MB/s. That is slower than some USB 2.0 drives I have. If your purpose is only to store data on a portable device and you are not in a rush, then this is fit for purpose. If you need to transfer data fast, this is not the drive you are looking for. This is by far the slowest USB drive I have - it is currently transferring a large file >4GB at 1.5 MB/s. That is slower than some USB 2.0 drives I have. If your purpose is only to store data on a portable device and you are not in a rush, then this is fit for purpose. If you need to transfer data fast, this is not the drive you are looking for.

For this price point, it's a great deal for 64GB although the transfer speeds on this USB stick are terribly bad. If I transferred say a movie of 1GB file size, the transfer speed would be around 10mbps. For USB 3.0 this is really bad considering my USB 2.0 drive performs 3x better than this. If you just need something to keep files on this will be perfect for you... as long as you can put up with the slow speed. For this price point, it's a great deal for 64GB although the transfer speeds on this USB stick are terribly bad. If I transferred say a movie of 1GB file size, the transfer speed would be around 10mbps. For USB 3.0 this is really bad considering my USB 2.0 drive performs 3x better than this. If you just need something to keep files on this will be perfect for you... as long as you can put up with the slow speed.

By: JackCompton 16/01/22

For USB 3.0 you’d expect this to perform better than USB 2.0. This USB is painfully slow for any file over 1GB. Been tested on 3 different PCs and all 3 return speeds of less than 5MBps. I’ve got a 500GB HDD plugged into a SATA to USB adapter and that performs at 30MBps. For USB 3.0 you’d expect this to perform better than USB 2.0. This USB is painfully slow for any file over 1GB. Been tested on 3 different PCs and all 3 return speeds of less than 5MBps. I’ve got a 500GB HDD plugged into a SATA to USB adapter and that performs at 30MBps.

Purchased for doing backups of embedded machines and found them to work very slowly when writing to the USB drive.
Tested the drive with USBdeview and measure write speed around 9 MB/s. For comparison an old 500GB USB HDD was 50 MB/s and a new 128GB Sandisk USB flash drive was around 40 MB/s
So a full backup used to take 2 hours and on the Kingston DTX it was about 8 hours.

The read speed was 100MB/s however so if you're only using it for that it could still be of use to you.

Tests above were done on USB 3.2 gen 1 ports and all three drives were tested on multiple USB ports in different combinations and the results were consistent. Purchased for doing backups of embedded machines and found them to work very slowly when writing to the USB drive.
Tested the drive with USBdeview and measure write speed around 9 MB/s. For comparison an old 500GB USB HDD was 50 MB/s and a new 128GB Sandisk USB flash drive was around 40 MB/s
So a full backup used to take 2 hours and on the Kingston DTX it was about 8 hours.

The read speed was 100MB/s however so if you're only using it for that it could still be of use to you.

Tests above were done on USB 3.2 gen 1 ports and all three drives were tested on multiple USB ports in different combinations and the results were consistent.

While this drive offers good read speeds and a good amount of storage at 128GB the writing to the drive is terrible. It varies between 1MB/s and 25MB/s with most of its time writing at the lower speed. If you have large files to copy to the drive get something with better write speed While this drive offers good read speeds and a good amount of storage at 128GB the writing to the drive is terrible. It varies between 1MB/s and 25MB/s with most of its time writing at the lower speed. If you have large files to copy to the drive get something with better write speed

Can't believe the price on this and the technology for guy who loves portable storage with videos this has to be the best price. Years ago you would spend hundreds and now for the
a flash drive with the capacity to hold 128gb of data that's amazing especially if it fits in small compartment like your jean pocket the little pocket.

This is amazing just want to go out a buy alot for the family as it such great gift for xmas presents.

The only negative is should have that pull out feature so that you don't lose the cap, I throw mine away as it going be lost anyway.

So there you have awesome product awesome price. Can't believe the price on this and the technology for guy who loves portable storage with videos this has to be the best price. Years ago you would spend hundreds and now for the
a flash drive with the capacity to hold 128gb of data that's amazing especially if it fits in small compartment like your jean pocket the little pocket.

This is amazing just want to go out a buy alot for the family as it such great gift for xmas presents.

The only negative is should have that pull out feature so that you don't lose the cap, I throw mine away as it going be lost anyway.

So there you have awesome product awesome price.

Excellent product and great value for money!! Easy to transfer documents and files and good value for the money. Excellent product and great value for money!! Easy to transfer documents and files and good value for the money.

Does what it says, stores a lot of stuff, it can be a little slow to download things and I wouldn't recommend running video games off of it but that's not what its designed for so that's okay. 4/5 Does what it says, stores a lot of stuff, it can be a little slow to download things and I wouldn't recommend running video games off of it but that's not what its designed for so that's okay. 4/5

Purchased this to deliver 160GB of data to a client.
The drive is impossibly slow, other large capacity USB drives that I own work fine, so this is either cheap trash or I got a dud. Purchased this to deliver 160GB of data to a client.
The drive is impossibly slow, other large capacity USB drives that I own work fine, so this is either cheap trash or I got a dud.

The other reviewers were correct, it does fluctuate between fast and slow transfer speeds, but if you can put up with that, it's a phenomenal size for the price. I'm pretty happy with it.

I've had mine for a couple of weeks. So far, no problems, just annoyances. The other reviewers were correct, it does fluctuate between fast and slow transfer speeds, but if you can put up with that, it's a phenomenal size for the price. I'm pretty happy with it.

I've had mine for a couple of weeks. So far, no problems, just annoyances.