The Kingston DT Ultimate G2-
The Kingston DT Ultimate is a large object for a USB Key. In fact when I first pulled it out my wife made the joke that it looked like a lipstick (I did not find that funny).  We compared it to two other USB flash drives that we had on hand. One was the Kingston Data Traveler Locker+ another 32GB USB drive but this one with hardware based 256 Bit AES encryption. The other is a 16GB Asus USB 3.0 drive that we picked

up at CES this year. As you can see from the shots below the DT Ultimate dwarfs them both.

The size of the DT Ultimatw is due to the USB 3.0 controller inside along with the faster than normal Flash chips.  We broke out our scalpel and a set of jeweler’s screw drivers to crack the DT Ultimate open (after we were done testing of course!).

As you can see the largest part of this drive is the USB 3.0 controller. It is a Phison PS2251-01-L. Although there is very little information on the 01-L model the PS2251 series has been an impressive lineup combining data security and performance.  The Flash memory used is Toshiba TH58NVG6D2FTA20 32nm NAND Flash. This was not surprising as it is the same stuff that is used in many of Kingston’s SSDs including the newer SSD Now V series. Each chip has a capacity of 8GB and four makes up the total drive capacity of 32GB.