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today I will be unboxing a Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 so the data traveller line of products from Kingston is they are USB 3 or their USB storage thumb drives ok so this is an ultimate view point oh so the 3.0 means is that it is USB 3 so that means you are going to get faster speeds out of it then you will out of a USB 2 thumb drive so this particular guy is more value oriented USB 3 Drive it's not quite the fastest one out there but it's still going to be several times faster than anything on a USB 2.0 interface it has that thumb shell type package that I am really not a big fan of and I forgot my knife upstairs so I'm trying to struggle my way through this but give me a second here guys so I forced it open with a screwdriver of all things there we go all right so what's Kingston have to say for themselves about this guy well they're saying up to 100 megabytes per second reads up to 70 megabytes per second writes now my experience with these USB 3 drum drives is that you're only really gonna achieve those speeds in a scenario where you're reading or writing large files so if you're doing small files that will be smaller but are smaller slower but they will still be dramatically faster than the USB 2 equivalents so here we go speed read okay and it will max out a USB 2.0 interface at about 30 and 30 megabytes per second reads and writes now that 30 is probably a little bit optimistic I would think would be more along the lines of about 25 in terms of real-world testing with you know not one large sequential 16 gig file this is the 16 gig version but it is available in a variety of capacities and it comes with a little keychain to capture piece so you can use that to well attach it to your keychain through the loop hole at the top although I would suggest using something a little bit more sturdy these USB 3 drives still aren't cheap so you're gonna want to make sure that you don't accidentally lose it so we'll have a quick look at the drive itself which is actually very stylish ok so you've got a nice cap here which has a brushed metal on the sides of both sides of it and then just white plastic here you've got the USB 3 interface which has as you can see the 4 standard USB pins as well as the 5 extra USB 3 ones at the back then you've got more brushed metal finish on the sides here at Kingston logo and then as I mentioned before you've got that hook on the top of it so you could put like a keychain loop or whatever else you desire on it there now the top only fits on one way so you won't accidentally put it on the wrong way and it actually sticks fairly well so there shouldn't be too much risk of losing that there you go that's the data travel traveler ultimate g2 16 gig USB 3 external I guess it would have to be external USB thumb drive