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Kingston DT100G3/16GB

DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 16GB

▲ DataTraveler 100 G3 16GB
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Effective Speed -92%Effective Speed -92%Peak Score -1,134%Read -91%, Write -392%, 4K Read -7%, 4K Write -4,047%Value & Sentiment +28% User Rating -5%, Price 100%, Value -11%Nice To Haves +5% Age 5%

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Average Bench: 13.5% (371^st of 639)

Based on 60,636 user benchmarks. Device: VID 0951 PID 1666 Model: Kingston DataTraveler 3.0

This is one of the Kingston's newest flash drives and yet another drive from Kingston with no claimed read or write speeds on the official documentation, not an encouraging sign (Kingston have since quoted Read/Write speeds of 40/10 MB/s). With a sequential write speed of 9.9 MB/s and a random write of 0.046 MB/s This drive is actually slower at writing than a lot of USB 2.0 drives, it's seriously dog slow. I really don't understand why Kingston have released a flash drive with specs like this but then I guess they didn't write the speed in the specs for a reason! There is no reason to buy this drive, as there are far better USB 3.0 flash drives out there for approximately the same money. Kingston's own DTR30 is a far better drive for an extra five pounds. If you really don't want to spend more than £10 then the Verbatim Store n Go V3 is better for the money. ^{[Jun '13 USBFlashPro]}

Poor: 5%Average: 13.5% Great: 23%

Terrible average bench

The Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 16GB averaged 86.5% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 6.94MB/s

Avg. Sequential Read Speed 64.2MB/s

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Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 16GB is just 17.8%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 16GB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 9.29MB/s

Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 0.17MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 60,636 samples)

Rank 37113.5%

Min	Avg	Max
19.5	Read 64.2	124
2.5	Write 12.2	30
2.5	Mixed 14.2	45.9
4.5	SusWrite 9.29	20.3
25% 25 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
1.5	4K Read 6.94	11.3
0	4K Write 0.17	0.8
0	4K Mixed 0.34	1.43
43% 2.48 MB/s

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Comments

GRC-User

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3,205

DT100G3 features a sleek, cost-effective design...

Capacities 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB
Compliant with USB 3.0 specifications
Dimensions 2.362" x 0.835" x 0.394" (60mm x 21.2mm x10mm)
Five-year warranty, free technical support

Added 11 years ago.

USA-User

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10,046

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2 years ago.

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Usability on a Mac is off the cart bad. It's as slow as a regular USB 2 drive or slower. It's nearly impossible to make a bootable Mac Install drive from one. Mount times are very long, like 1 minute. Unmount is just as long. Do not buy this drive.—Sep '14

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The only thing going for this flash drive is the price. The write speed sucks. I have 2.0 Flash Drives that write faster than this Kingston. I used the freeware chkflsh (recommended) and I got a write speed of 8.38. Kingston should feel ashamed of that performance and calling this a 3.0. Not recommended unless your a buying it to download a file and give it away.—Jan '15

CAN-User

level
5,080

Good

4 years ago.

Some usb stick uses don't need a lot of speed, but this thing is so slow I can't imagine ANY use for it...

Comment

Ridiculously slow. So slow I thought it was defective.—Sep '14

BRA-User

level
4,751

Terrible

2 years ago.

needless to mention, awfully slow

FRA-User

level
4,675

Terrible

5 years ago.

Slow slow slow. A lot of stop and go during transfer

POL-User

level
4,672

Average

5 years ago.

While copying smaller files (like a (15 kb) x 200) pendrive is ultra slow - 0b/s for about 1-2 sec for file. :/

AUS-User

level
4,042

Terrible

5 years ago.

Comment

Price is good, form factor looks good. Not the fastest but it gets the job done. —Sep '14

MYS-User

level
3,347

Excellent

5 years ago.

Comment

i bought it... and i'm regretting to get this piece of sh**.....—Sep '14

THA-User

level
3,254

Poor

4 years ago.

This thing is painfully slow. This is the last time I'm buying anything from Kingston.

GRC-User

level
3,205

Good

7 years ago.

----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 62.683 MB/s Sequential Write : 9.878 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 69.548 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 0.489 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 7.105 MB/s Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.046 MB/s Test : 500 MB ---------------------------------------

COL-User

level
3,030

Excellent

6 years ago.

SAME AS ALL ABOVE, DO NOT BUY THIS

ZAF-User

level
2,868

Terrible

5 years ago.

Really friggin terrible. What a waste of money

FIN-User

level
2,598

Terrible

3 years ago.

I bought this because being USB 3.0 and 128GB I thought it would be usable for backups. The fact: it is the slowest USB memory I've ever used and I've used many. Even USB 2.0 devices are faster than this. This is total garbage.

DNK-User

level
2,254

Terrible

6 years ago.

As others have said, it is so slow that I thought it was broken.

PER-User

level
2,246

Good

7 years ago.

i don´t understand with kingston sell this piece of garbage.

NZL-User

level
2,184

Good

9 years ago.

Scored it 8.6, 0.6 for the speed, 8.0 for the price

Comment

Purchased one of these because the price was good. It was so slow that I searched to see if others had same problem. Slower than USB 2.0 for writing, somewhat faster for reading but very slow for a USB 3.0 device.—Sep '14

LKA-User

level
1,966

Excellent

5 years ago.

i never gonna buy a kingston product again!!!!!

IRL-User

level
1,834

Poor

9 years ago.

Same as some people here, so slow I thought it was defective. Pity I didn't look it up before I bought.

USBFlashPro

level
1,312

Terrible

11 years ago.

ProdEntryBot

level
196

Good

11 years ago.

Pretty poor speeds for a USB 3.0 drive ... CrystalDiskMark Benchmark Test Result 62.6/9.9 Sequential read/write speed 7.1/0.046 Random 4k read/write speed.

NorthStar

level
54

Average

4 years ago.

Not the best drive by any means, but gets the job done.

kuroiikaze

level
42

Good

4 years ago.

nice to have

blazeaglory

level
30

Average

7 years ago.

Gets the job done for cheap

Darktanis

level
14

Terrible

2 years ago.

A terrible USB 3.0 memory. Very slow, have compatibility problems with Mac and is very hot. Avoid her.

bar1004

level
2

Terrible

5 years ago.

Looks like there are two versions of the drive older one made in Taiwan and newer one in China and only the one made in Taiwan is good (~105 MB/s steady read testing with Victoria) while the one made in China is pretty abysmal (~36 MB/s steady read), both have the same product code (DT100G3/16GB) and AFAIK only way to identify them is to look at the writing on USB shield and avoid the newer product. Feels like a bait and switch, not cool Kingston...

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DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 16GB

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