Kingston 8GB Hi-Speed DataTraveler USB Flash Drive - DT100/8GBKR

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It's a little slow...but it fits a ton. (though currently there might be half a gb left of space on mine) Sometimes it has issues being read, but most of the time it works just fine. I recomend it to anyone who is just needing a way of backing up or transferring files...not exactly perfect to work directly from though. (so saving whatever working file to the desktop is recomended.)
 
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If you need a fair amount of really cheap portable storage, this is a good choice. You do get what you pay for, though. The housing seems very fragile, including the thumb button that you use for the retractable USB connector. The lack of complete cover for the connector allows dust and lint to easily get inside it. If you are concerned about durability, I would go with a more expensive unit; if if you just need a cheap 8GB flash drive, this isn't a bad choice.
 
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Got this back in december and it has on several occasions denied access to files because it says they are corrupted. Today it totally shut down with all my work for the last few months on it / DRIVE CORRUPTED!! Going back to Lexar or SanDisk at least I know they will last.
 
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Great budget 8GB flash drive. Write speed is pretty slow - read speed is good enough to play HD Divx on my PS3 with no hiccups which was my main use for it. So for me it works great. I do like the retractable connector - I've lost the caps for my other sticks already...
 
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This works great!! The only thing I wish it had would be readyboost on it so it could be used as extra memory for my computer running Vista. This would have been even better. O'well the stick works great and is very fast, It does what they said it would do! Plus I cannot find it around here for this great price!!
 
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Nice product at a great price. Great to always have the 8GB drive available wherever I go!! I now have a 4GB, 6GB, and 8GB flash drive. All bought at buy.com and all have worked just fine.
 
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Item works good, free shipping, received in four days from date of purchase online, COOL. Great deal. Good brand name.
 
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So far, only A++++'s for this product. I love it! I take it between my computers when working on photos, movies and music and find the 8G size is perfect for this. (I store my finished products on an external hard drive). This product is tops in performance, price and ease of use and I like the way the connection snaps out for use. I'm considering buying one for each of my children.
 
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Works good. I thought it would always get packed with pocket-lint in the retractable end, but no probs yet.
 
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Here's the reply from Kingston Tech support: Yes this drive is Vista compatible but we make no mentioned that it's Ready Boost compatible. Unfortunately it does not meet the speed requirement needed for the Ready Boost feature. We have other drives that meets Ready Boost compatibility but unfortunately not this one. It should not be crashing your system when using the safe to remove hardware function. If that is the case I suggest having it replaced through your place of purchase or by clicking on the following link. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.
 
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I just bought it 2 weeks ago. Time will show how reliable it is. What I don't like about it is: 1) the plastic lock which holds USB connector open/close may break soon 2) speed is not too fast. Considering the price it's a good buy.
 
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This is a great compact drive that we use to do every day small backups on just certain things that need to backed up more frequently. Great price and delivered on time.
 
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50meg write from hard disk - 20secs. That's pretty slow compared to my 2gig data traveler - 6secs. Read speed is acceptable. Spend a little more and get a fast write flash.
 
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This 8Gb USB flash drive does its job well. The 8Gb gives you tons of space, and it has the sporty retractable connection. (No cap to lose.) My only knocks are the relatively flimsy plastic exterior and the lack of an indicator light saying it is connected and working. otherwise, nice product.
 
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I'm disappointed in the write access speed of this flash drive. I have several of Kingston's DTI series flash drives in the 4, 2, and 1 GB sizes and all appear to write data much faster than this model.
 
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Have always liked Kingston products. This drive doesn't let me down. Reads and writes are fast and I don't have to worry about losing the cap like I did on my other drive.
 
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Great for the price. Don't have to keep up with the cap. They should all be this way
 
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I have purchased a number of Kingston Flash Drives for my company and myself. They have always been a good value and none have failed yet. 8GB for this price was impossible to pass up.
 
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I use this with my Pioneer car audio head unit as it supports USB drives. I loaded up 8 gigs of my mp3s and plug it into my head unit and it works wonderful. This drive is also exposed to super cold weather and it works flawlessly.
 
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The only reason I don't give it a 5-star overall satisfaction is because the product is made with a cheap plastic and I find the retractable mechanism a little clumsy. Other than that, it works fine and delivers what promises.
 
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This is an excellent flash drive. It works fast and the best part is there is no cap to lose. I don't know how many flash drives I have with missing caps because the get misplaced or fall off. Never again. And with 8 GB, I can hold an entire year of my lecture presentations, data, and documents on a single drive.
 
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It is a good product with a great price. So far, the performance is great. I would like to recommend it. Thank You Buy.com !!!
 
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Although this drive is not as big as other USB flash drives, if your USB ports are stacked close to each other as is the case in my DELL laptop, you may not be able to connect any other devices to the adjacent port. This is also the case for remote USB ports placed side by side, as on some LCD monitors. The LED on the drive is dim and lights up when data is being accessed or transferred to the drive, and not in standby mode as on Memorex USB drives. The LED is only visible from one side of the drive hence when attached on some USB ports, it's oriented away from the users making it useless.
 
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It came, I plugged it into the USB port on a few computers, and it gives me a large capacity in the usual size package. When plugged in, the computer may take a few seconds longer to recognize it than it takes for a 1GB (maybe it needs to look through a larger directory space?) but then it just works and works.
 
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Just what I hoped. Worked great. Great service as well... and great follow up from Buy.com.
 
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It is a good product with a great price. So far, the performance is great. I would like to recommend it.
 
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Great brand name product for a great price. Thanks Buy.com
 
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What a great price! Super value. There are a lot of fake 8GB flash drives out there. I bought one from eBay, and it turned out to be less than 256MB. (When it was plugged in Windows XP displayed its capacity as 8GB. So it is no "accident" but some intelligent crooks went out their way to fool the OS.) I found a method to verify true capacity of a flash drive, and this Kingstone drive was verified to be true 8GB. I didn't do any specific performance test, but in all everyday use, it is fast. I moved some sizable files, and it was very fast. Buy this one with confidence.
 
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It does not work on Windows 98 and it has no light to indicate it's working. These are the shortcommings. Otherwise it's O.K.
 
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Works perfectly with my Macs. Big 8 GB for a great price. Fast. Highly recommend.
 
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The overall performance of this drive is exactly what I expect from Kingston products. Just plug it in and your ready to go. I use this drive to store all of my Diagnostic Programs, and Scripts for Windows XP. This size meets all of my needs so far.. I would recommend this to anyone, and it has no cap or cover to misplace!!
 
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The quality of the product is great and the service from buy.com was excellent.
 
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Good value for the capacity - store some files we always use plus moving stories and data from work station to work station. Love these new implements - very fast, indeed.
 
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I got the Kingston 8GB Hi-Speed Data Traveler. It was a great price and fast. I got it 4 days before they said I would I would give them AAAAAA+++++++
 
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Perfect size and price. Not much elce to say.
 
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I have had many of the Kingston Traveler USB drives. I loved them all. I have seen other similar devices come with preloaded software (clutter at best, destructive at worst, particularly when the software cannot be removed and it crashes the machine whenever windows tries and fails to execute it properly). The Kingston 8GB DataTraveler has no clutter. It's just nice, lovely, empty space, waiting to soak up whatever data you have to fill it. Of all the DataTraveler's I've had, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, the 8GB has the fastest data write speed. I'm not sure why the others were slower, as they're all supposed to be USB 2.0 devices (not just USB 2.0 compatible). This 8GB beauty has saved in excess of 3 GB in less than a minute. I often use the 8GB unit to transfer DVD images, DB backups, and code repositories from a machine without a DVD burner to a machine with one. This little wonder has worked flawlessly every time. I wish I had a dozen more for my co-workers.
 
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Works great, holds tremendous amount of info, thank you.
 
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My Kingston 8 gig flash drive is a Godsend I trade files with many of my fellow computer friends and it is very convenient to use the flsh drive. Buy.Com handled the order in a timely fashion and I received it in a few days. Ron Hahne
 
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Terrific and convenient. I gave this to my wife for use with her laptop to back up Quickbooks. She loves it. Super price. Works great.
 
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This little device is quick, smart (don't need a degree to plug this one in) and everything you could ask for in a portable device. Huge storage and not bulky. I am buying a couple of more just as a spare. I made it a MoJoPac device and no worries.
 
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This little device is quick, smart (don't need a degree to plug this one in) and everything you could ask for in a portable device. Huge storage and not bulky. I am buying a couple of more just as a spare. I made it a MoJoPac device and no worries.
 
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I bought 2 4GB Kingston DataTraveler USB Flash Drives as Christmas gifts. I was so impressed by the speed (transfer of files/data) that I decided to get an 8GB to use for storage. The gift when over very well, too.
 
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A small retractable power house,fast and priced right. Two thumbs up.
 
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This product will hold up to 8GB of files, but it is formatted for FAT32 which restricts file size to a maximum of 4GB. So don't purchase this drive if you want to use it with very large files.
 
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I use the drive for moving large files between systems. It takes about 1.5 minutes to copy a 1GB VOB (video) file to or from the USB drive. You can hold a couple of DVDs on it so it's a very nice size to carry.<