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Kingston Datatraveler 101 Unboxing & Performance Test Linus Tech Tips

2010-11-16
this will be a fairly straightforward unboxing this is the Kingston DataTraveler 101 it is rated for up to 10 megabytes per second read and 5 megabytes per second ride ride alright so this is a value USB Drive it's gonna be all about cost per gigabyte they provide a convenient scissor line for how to open the packaging but since I am rarely equipped with scissors or a knife I'm gonna go ahead and open it with my hands it is compatible with Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP Windows 2000 Mac OS X as well as Linux and then here's what I can't figure out look at this okay they have a graph with data traveller as well as you are drive do they mean your drive like your current Drive I'm not quite sure what they mean well if you have some insight into what Kingston means on the back of their box by your drive then yeah please do let me know so let's have a look at the data traveller 101 itself you can see it has an included cap you can actually install a little carrier string right there through the top it's made out of metal which appears to be pretty decent metal so it's not gonna just come right off like one of the other drives that I had that had a metal clip on it alright you just flip it open like that and then you are able to access the USB business end of the data traveller 101 so that was it that's the whole thing let's do a quick let's do a quick data write test just to find out exactly how well it performs and then that will conclude our data traveller 101 coverage so as soon as we plugged in the USB key your drive revealed itself to be your USB world just the way you want to experience the fun of your drive anytime anywhere you can manage your files and folders download and use fun apps subject to availability store and play your favorite songs explore your photos and explore your photos with friends and family so we clicked the learn more link it looks like we've got built-in secure internet browser with search by Yahoo two gigs of online backup account we have a RoboForm password manager as well as a your app zone 2 to get easy access to additional apps so there's a bunch of instruction videos there's an intro video which is a cartoon and it's conveniently captioned so we can even watch it I just finished another thrilling day of work carrying files around Wow here I think we've got sound even that's okay okay so basically it's a software that allows you to make better use of your drive overall with all of these cool features that's pretty neat search online for Spanish listen to my built-in internet browser huh so I guess it's bootable even neat this is getting kind of long okay let's do our let's do our speed test really quick here so I'm gonna take our tech tips video and I'm going to paste it and we'll find out how long it takes so this is a 100 megabyte file and it takes approximately that long which is a lot faster than five megabytes per second which is what the drive is ready for so it looks like Houston is under reading this Drive thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at Kingston DataTraveler 101
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