Archive for: kingston
- September 14, 2010 6:46 pm
As consumers tote around ever growing digital libraries, finding places to stuff said libraries is starting to wear thin. Ok, maybe it’s not that big of a crisis. But tech junkies and business professionals may have encountered at one time or another, a flash drive that had run out of room or was god-awfully slow. Thus far, there’s been a few USB 3 options that have come onto the market. Well folks, add another contender to your lists. Kingston has officially arrived.
The Data Traveler Ultimate 3.0 as the name suggests, adds in USB 3 support and promises some pretty substantial speed improvements over USB 2.0-only products. According to Kingston, their handy work present in the DTP 3.0 is good for 80MBps read and 60MBps writes. Blistering? Meh, for a flash drive it’s pretty awesome. Compared to higher end hard disk drives and SSD’s, however, shows that flash drives in particular have quite a ways to go.
You can pick up the Data Traveler Ultimate 3.0 in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB sizes for $89/$138/$270 respectively. Anyone going to bite?
Fancy the title “PC Enthusiast” or “Hardcore Gamer”. Chances are if such words flow freely from your mouth, you no doubt spend at least a fair chunk of time in front of or using computers each day. Speaking of computers, there’s also a good chance that the hardware you’re packin’ is pretty high-end, given the proud nature of your relationship with computers. When it comes to high end, we hear about water-cooled hardware. Processors: Check. GPU’s: Check. Motherboard: Check. RAM: che…what?
In all honesty, water-cooled RAM isn’t new. Though the concept hasn’t ever really taken off save for a few extreme niches in the pc building world. That grim past doesn’t scare Kingston however as they’ve officially taken the covers off their new HyperX H20 line of memory. It’s straightforward and looks to be rather easy to set up — connect a few hoses, fill the loop with liquid of choice, and turn on check for leaks, enjoy.
Though if we’re being completely honest, the only places that blinding fast (and insanely expensive) RAM really shows dramatic improvements over your standard affair are synthetic benchmarks. Real-world results are far less super. Couple that with the high cost to build a proper water cooling loop and you have something that just doesn’t look like a big seller. But who am I to complain. Tossing RAM into the WC loop would indeed look mighty sweet.
Look for HyperX H20 memory to start at $157 for the 4GB pack and $235 for a tri-channel 6GB option. Any PC builders taking the plunge?
When even 11 isn’t far enough — Kingston has a beast of a flash drive with their latest DT310 usb device. Some geeks may be bragging of their new 128GB flash drive that they just picked up recently, boasting of their supreme nerdiness. At the top they are no more for Kingston has a new 256GB DT310 drive that now dwarfs the latest attempts of only a few other manufacturers. At 256GB, the drive is easily larger than a fair selection of lower end netbook and even many laptop hard drives. A big bragging point for sure. Then again, filling up 256GB worth of space over USB 2.0 isn’t exactly a pleasant experience. An $836.38 price as tested doesn’t exactly bode too well for curious (or hopeful) shoppers either.
Think we’ve reached a point at which the storage size has finally outpaced need?
Dvice > Book of Joe
If you ever found yourself on the wrong side of the law, just how far would you go in evading the 5-0? Would you run on foot, by scooter, car, or plane? Would you pull knife, gun, rocket launcher, plasma shifting uber weapon? All of these and more are thoughts that go through a persons head in the few seconds in which they transform from innocent, frightened civilian to hardened criminal. I’m sure that running on a scooter and shooting plasma beams at the police is a much more favorable “goin down in a blazing glory” that Florin Necula would rather prefer. Unfortunately for Mr. Necula whom recently found himself on the wrong end of not the police, but the Secret Service, the only means to hide the sought after information from the men in suits was to literally keep his mouth shut — and swallow a flash drive.
Can you say ouch? It makes me barrel over and wince in pain when I think about all of the unsettling feelings a flash drive would bestow upon my innards. For Mr. Necula, four days was as much as he could take. After which, the dreaded “removal operation” ensued at a local NYC hospital. I’ll let you all use your grown up minds and imaginations on how it was removed. Was the data recovered fully? That information is MIA at the moment. Looks like we’ll have to follow up on this one a little on down the road.
As for Mr. Necula, he is currently facing (4) felonies, “obstruction” humorously and ironically being one. Now that’s what I call determination…(or stupidity)
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Now I’m a big supporter of convenience and ease of use, however, there comes a time when even the most simple minded have to sit back and really question just how much all of that convenience is worth. Enter the world of 256GB Kingston flash drives. The latest from the King is sure to make the less technically knowledgeable individual gape in pure and utter astonishment by the sheer size and amount this miniature device can hold. While the size is massive, drives of this magnitude usually suffer horrendously slow transfer times — something that isn’t very appealing when you’re talking about 10 Mbps transfer speeds on a device capable of housing 1/4 TB. Moving on to a brighter light, the Kingston 256GB flash drive will allow the 1 and 0 hoarder to stow away more than 40,000 songs just to give you an idea. Naturally, such size and sophistication comes at a price…and hefty a price it is: $900 according to several tech sites more familiar with the device. $900 is mighty steep for a flash drive regardless of features or size.
So what is a mere mortal to do? Obviously buy a small hard drive is the first step. Again, remember that transfer times are key, don’t let the shock of the big storage number cloud your judgement. There are much cheaper alternatives that while not as small, are just as useful and efficient. Then again, if you’ve never had that good of a relationship with say one of your kidneys, now may be the time to kill two birds with one stone….
Source: Technabob
- February 15, 2009 7:49 pm
MicroSD cards are perhaps the greatest example of how in just a few years time digital storage has drastically revolutionized the way our digital devices store data. Kingston announced today at MWC that their line of microSD cards will now top out at a full 16GB! Just a few months behind SanDisk. Trivial facts aside, just think, that’s around 2,200 songs at 256kbps! And to think it all fits on a card the size of your standard remote control button. Simply amazing. Yet we go on with our lives every day as if it is nothing special. Just think back to when massive floppy disks held a few kilobytes of data and scientists and gadget lovers such as ourselves got all nerdy over that! 15-20 years from now, we’ll look back on our 16GB microSD cards and laugh as we enjoy our 3D holographic 500 petabyte cards that are the size of a lead pencil tip. Back on task…the 16GB microSD cards will come in at a cool $90 according to Kingston.
Source: Gearlog
