Kingston Intros DataTraveler SE9 G3 - a Premium High-performance USB Flash Drive

[T0@st]

Introducing the DataTraveler SE9 Gen 3 USB drive. Featuring a premium metal casing for durability and style paired with large capacity options, you can have form AND function. Experience the combination of elegance and functionality with the DataTraveler SE9 G3 USB 3.2 Gen 3 flash drive, ideal for storing and sharing your data. Rediscover its timeless, award-winning design, now enhanced with high-performance speeds of up to 220 MB/s read and 100 MB/s write, ensuring swift and seamless data transfers on Type-A host devices.

Explore the expanded storage options with robust capacities now reaching up to 512 GB, providing ample space for your movies, music and diverse file storage needs. Premium metal casing for durability and style—an all-metal gold casing that's portable enough to fit in your pocket, backpack or on your keyring loop.




Kingston DataTraveler SE9 G3 USB Flash Drive:

Premium-style storage solution for Type-A devices.

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[Chaitanya]

Questionable components aside wont be long before retailers start selling them in multipacks at really cheap prices making them perfect to be forgotten on keychains(I already have couple of cheap flash drives and SD cards in all my bags thrown in for emergency uses).

 

[Event Horizon]

I've had supposedly premium flash drives randomly die on me (never skipped safely remove). Learned to always backup my backups.

 

[Waldorf]

uhmmm, i had a Patriot drive that did those numbers +5y ago,
while only being 32GB, water and shockproof with a nice rubberized coating.

 

[NoneRain]

a Premium High-performance USB Flash Drive

now enhanced with high-performance speeds of up to 220 MB/s read and 100 MB/s write

Premium = normal, got it. Expect a pretty normal price then.

 

[sLowEnd]

Nothing premium about those speeds or that casing

 

[b1k3rdude]

I've had supposedly premium flash drives randomly die on me (never skipped safely remove). Learned to always backup my backups.

Exactly this, Kingston "used to" make good, reliable usb drives. Ive still got 2 of thier original 2gb data traveler drives I used as boot/flash/install sticks.

 

[micropage7]

even you can put it as key chain, better keep it in safe place since you don't know what gonna happen next

 

[unwind-protect]

I'm in the market for a USB storage device that works like a proper SSD but in as small a case as possible. I know it can't go down to USB stick levels, but there must be something smaller than a 2230 format M.2 in a USB case. It seems that nobody targets that market.

 

[sLowEnd]

I'm in the market for a USB storage device that works like a proper SSD but in as small a case as possible. I know it can't go down to USB stick levels, but there must be something smaller than a 2230 format M.2 in a USB case. It seems that nobody targets that market.

Kingston's Datatraveler Max USB sticks are pretty fast. They're quite large for a USB stick though.

 

[Prima.Vera]

This:

SanDisk Extreme PRO® USB 3.2 Solid State Flash Drive (128 GB - 1 TB) | Western Digital

Custom built for people who need to move huge files fast, the SanDisk Extreme PRO® USB 3.2 Flash Drive delivers maximum performance so you can set your own pace.

www.westerndigital.com

Way better specs.

 

[ElMarciano]

I want to warn everyone thinking about buying this thing!
DO NOT BUY THIS KINGSTON STICK!
I bought the 500GByte model of the SE9 G3 and - it was by far the worst USB drive I have ever seen! Actually this thing is worse than all the even decades old USB 2.0 drives I ever used!
Actually I did some test:

-First I made sure it would be working after runing hot, instead of just freezing, which many USB drives tend to so. It succeeded in this category, as it did not drop out, which can easily be exlained by the speed dropping down to long fogotten levels of 'performance'.
-I then checked the nominal capacity, using f3 on Linux AND h2testw which is true.
-The I did the speed tests, using Crystal Disk Mark (Twice, on two different Windows machines!) and Linux (using dd on THREE different machines).
Te result was most underwhelming: After about one Gigabyte written, write performance went down into the region of single digit hundreds of Kilobytes! Like jumping between 100KByte/s and 700KBytes/s. During the steady slow writes there also where some rare and very short (like four seconds) spikes of up 18MByte/s sporadically between on each system. The average overall speed after writing up to 50GBytes was at about 8MByte/s (Of course going lower and lower with each GB written!) - which means using all the capacity of this drive would take more than 17 hours! This clearly is utterly unacceptable for a 500GByte drive in 2024, as it defeats the purpose of having a drive of this capacity.
-My practise tests using the drive on a AndroidTV-box and on an SBC (both running a network share, which I wrote to and read from through ftp and smb) proved the unbelievable bad performance of this drive. I had dropouts when playing video from this drive and sending files through ftp took way longer than it would be useful.

Do not buy this.