Kingston DT Ultimate 3.0 Gen 2 Flash Drive Released

By Nathan Kirsch May 18, 2011

Kingston today announced the launch of the Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Generation 2 (DTU30G2). The DTU30G2, Kingstons fastest USB Flash drive, uses a native USB 3.0 controller for better performance and power management. The new DTU30G2 has a read speed up to 100MB/s, and a write speed up to 70 MB/s. The original DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 has a read speed of 80MB/sec. and a write speed of 60MB/sec, so as you can tell this drive is 20MB/s faster read and 10MB/s faster on write speeds. When plugged into a USB 2.0 port, the drive has read and write speeds of around 30MB/s, which is the max possible on USB 2.0. The DTU30G2 is available in 16-, 32- and 64GB capacities and come backed by a five year warranty.

Kingston is committed to help drive market adoption of the new USB 3.0 standard and make it more accessible to the mass market, said Andrew Ewing, Flash memory business manager, Kingston. The growing number of platforms and computers supporting the USB 3.0 standard as well as the benefits of the single chip controllers that allow better compatibility and performance are helping drive the adoption of USB 3.0 technology.

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