Gadgetory

hey everyone Greg here with science to do and I have something a little different here to show you I picked up something on newegg that I think is worthy of a video now at first glance you might not think so just because of well how simple it isn't and what it does it's actually a USB thumb drive now I know right off the bat what you're thinking well come on Greg it's a USB thumb drive those are like household items like people just don't make videos on thumb drive as well I think this one is worthy of a video now a typical thumb drive is going to look something like this now I am going to pick on sandisk in this particular video but most USB thumb drive manufacturers are guilty of this sin so they all look just boring I think this one just looks terrible most college and high school students tend to keep their USB thumb drives on their keys so I don't think I'm going to want to have this on my keys and if I am it's not something that I'm going to be wanting to show off yeah you got a cool looking thumb drive there right now it's got a cheap little lever here that slides the USB drive in and out of the plastic housing and listen to it just sounds cheap it's just it's literally made of plastic and I don't like it there is a little orange LED in here that I should note but I mean come on it's it's nothing impressive it looks orange when it's plugged in that's great also these things can get snagged sometimes when this lever is pushed out and you try to insert it into a computer this lever will just not stick anymore and then the USB Drive will just get pushed back in that sucks that's annoying now other USB thumb drive manufacturers have resorted to the mini approach write something small something that you can't even see this thing's purpose is to be small but it's to be small because well nobody wants to sue them right so they've gone from something this big and bulky and ugly to something this small because they decided that well the first time around people just didn't like them at all so they said well okay we'll just make them as small as possible with it well you can't see them and you can't judge them therefore soapy and wise kind of tried to get away with this i actually purchased this from my old xbox 360 this was a storage device believe it or not I actually put GTA 5 data on this thing but since then I have just used it for I don't know driver data and whatnot but now I just kind of sits around because I have upgraded to something even cooler and yes it's bigger it's much bigger than this I think that the thumb drive i'm about to show you is very very cool and worthy of the keychain so go ahead and show it to you this one is from kingston now the first thing you might notice about something like this is wow it's very small small not in the wit factor but in the haight factor how does something this small work well actually the entire thing is the thumb drive so this entire unit is what is inserted into the USB port on your computer or laptop that is pretty cool it's also gold of all colors I think gold is a very classy and mature color so if you're looking for something that looks a bit more professional I think that gold kind of beats out a clear grey and black so gold's nice to see now the material the kingston use in this case feels like aluminum I know I say that about pretty much any metal at all but it certainly is a metal of sorts it's not a plastic so you don't have look at really can't hear anything it's metal it's literally just one solid piece of it so cool thing about this is my keys here there's a ring here and this ring is also made of the same metal it's again one solid piece of metal and it will fit on pretty much any key chain look at that look at that come on that looks cooler than the keys on my keychain now this particular thumb drive is only a USB to point at them dry which means that you're not going to see the stellar speeds that you would otherwise see from a USB 3.1 drive but there's a reason I went with USB 2.0 con computers quite a bit nowadays and when I'm installing things on computers that aren't necessarily the newest and best and most up-to-date I need USB to point out because I have found that older computers do not like dealing with USB 3.0 Ives they just they just don't for some reason they're supposed to be backwards compatible but there are still problems every now and then I ran into a particular one with an old intel celeron platform from the Asus lineup and it just would not detect thumb drive at all in the system BIOS so I've done with this one and it seemed to fix my problems for the older pcs that I work with you can find this particular kingston 16 gigabyte USB 2.0 let's see DTG e9 and it's 32 and 64 gigabyte older brothers on newegg right now so that's about it everyone i want to show you that you can actually bring the coolness out of your USB thumb drive just ditch the old one you have that ugly plastic big bulky one or that very minimalistic hard to see small one get something that looks great on a keychain get something that looks like it belongs on your keychain something like this kingston USB to point out okay that it's not USB 3.0 unless you're dealing with huge files which at that point I don't even recommend using USB thumb drive for anyway so that's about it everyone if you liked the video give us a thumbs up if you hated the video right and think I should never do this again give me a thumbs down in the comments below let me know what you would like to see next also if you think you have a cooler thumb drive than this one I dare you to challenge me be sure to this your thumb drives name make model color and phone number in the comments below I dare you challenge me there's nothing cooler than this kingston DTG 9 16 gigabyte USB 2.0 drive on a keychain that's it everyone thanks for watching this assigned studio thanks for learning with us