Kingston DataTraveler Max - 512GB - USB 3.2 Gen 2 - Flash Drive Type-C Up to 1,000MB/s Read, 900MB/s Write

Fast and reliable USB stick with plenty of storage. Compact design and works perfectly.

fast and solid. I have a usb 3.0 gen 1 port, so I couldn’t hit the full speeds, but it still worked really well. if you’ve got gen 2, this thing will fly. Just returning because I can’t take full advantage of it right now

The speed are indeed as advertised (~1000MB/s Read and ~900MB/s Write) used through Thunderbolt4 connector (which is backward compatible to USB 3.2 Gen2, that was advertised on the product's page) — that's highly satisfying! Of course, the storage is again enormous for its money. Not particularly easy to use, though, mainly because my type C ports are located at the back of the laptop, and the drive in itself is long.On the other side, as noted in numerous reviews on amazon, which also resonated with my personal experience of use — the build is awful, like it seems an unreliable piece of plastic, especially with this sliding to-and-fro feature, that can break anytime even with light use. This is what happens with a lot of customers: the drive breaks after 1 year or 1.5 years of infrequent use. Also, it becomes really warm during use, as said by other users, too.So, generally this is exactly what I needed: cheep and cheerful device with high speeds and huge storage, although not the best build. Still, for future I will be investing more money in reliability of a flash drive with my vital data (never use only one storage for all your important information).

I have had a few Kingston USB drives in the past and to be truthful, was never very happy with the write speed, read speed was Ok, so this was a surprise, on benchmark testing using USB 3.2 Gen1 port , read 420Mb/sec. write 409Mb/sec. In real life testing, witting to the Kingston Data Traveler Max from USB 3.2 Gen1 port, video file of 5.59Gb returned a speed of 331Mb/sec. and took 18 seconds, in all fairness this is very good, Went onto copy some work files 9.86Gb (12680 files) I knew this would be a lot slower, jumped around a bit but under 6 minuets at around 29Mb/sec. average, My old stick was around 8Mb/sec. so lots faster for small files from what I am use to. Got 5 stars from me

Broken after one year. Used maybe 20 times. Not worth 1 cent

This was bought for shifting large files from one PC to another, read and write speeds are fantastic. It's quite sturdy too.

Write speed drops to 76 Megabytes per second. 215mins to fill. Chonky. USB-A. Looks cheap!usable capacity in ntfs is 953GiB = 1024,207,089,664 bytes. Took 3h35m to fill with 1GB files. Initial write speed was 700MBytes per second. This dropped under 98MB/s after 42mins; 82M/s after 160min; 76M/s by end. However, it never hung. Recognised in my LG Oled TV ( media playback ) . I bought mine 'used' & with a £5 extra discount coupon so forgive it a bit on those grounds. It is not a 'lemon' but is clunky & only has USB-A. My review got bounced when I recommended alternatives but there are several reliable tiny & cheap models from the big names.

I have a few of them and they are really fast. However, they are not suitable for booting the system, at least I have a problem with them on several systems qubes, unix and linux variants Great for transferring video or audio files.