As the devices we carry around with us get smaller and smaller there is going to be an increasing want (or need) for larger and faster portable storage devices. We have watched over the last few years as the storage capacity of USB flash drives (Pen Drives, Thumb Drives etc.) has grown rapidly. It was not that long ago that a 1-2GB drive was something to have. Now we have small flash drives in the 64, 128 and even 256GB range! Kingston has been one of the companies on the forefront if this charge into larger capacity and faster performance. We have tested out multiple products from them from encrypted storage devices to the hefty DTUltimate G2 32GB USB3.0 thumb drive. Now we have a new product on the bench from Kingston. This one is being sold under their performance name HyperX. The Drive boasts 64GB of storage and 225MB/s of read performance! If the paper is to be believed this is almost twice the performance of the DTUltimate G2, which topped out at around 116MB in our testing. Let’s dive in and see if the paper claims match the real world performance.
The Box and Goodies -As with most USB flash drives these days you do not get a “box” but a plastic blister package that could also double as a scalpel if you are not careful. The Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 comes in the typical package. The graphics are different and of course the name and capacity labels are different, but for the most part it is identical to what we have seen with many other USB flash drives.
Once we carefully removed the outer shell, we found the same things inside as well. Nothing all that special to write about, but then again it is not the packaging that we are interested in anyway.
