Friday, November 23rd 2012
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Kingston Intros Data Traveller GE9 Line of 24ct Gold-Plated USB Flash Drives
Kingston unveiled the Data Traveller GE9 line of USB 2.0 flash drives, characterized by 24-carat gold-plated bodies. Available in conventional capacities of 8 GB and 16 GB, the drives are tested to provide up to 20 MB/s of transfer rates. The 16 GB variant was tested by Expreview to push bits around at 19.15 MB/s (sequential reads) and 5.14 MB/s (sequential writes). The 8 and 16 GB variants are priced at the equivalent of $8 and $14.
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Expreview
12 Comments on Kingston Intros Data Traveller GE9 Line of 24ct Gold-Plated USB Flash Drives
well theirs always different revisions being made ,so maybe they'll tidy it up ;)
as for usb 3 devices at the other end of the scale ,i recently spotted a 128GB one that was purported to have sequential read performance at speeds up to 200MB/s and up to 120MB/s sequential write speeds ,with a price tag that ranges from $139.99 to $249.99 :twitch::wtf:
I will never understand what people love about 24 carat gold, except the allergic, but stay with technical stuff.:
Is anything in their specs about the gold plating for the connecters?
I'd love to see the epic fail face of someone buying this stuff and than the malfunction caused by using less than 0.76µm gold plating on the connectors.
They should use a lot more than that but the spec allows plating that's gone after 5 times :shadedshu