Kingston DataTraveler 101 - USB flash drive - 2 GB

...would recommend this product to anyone who needs a flash drive. Another plus is that the brand of it in my eyes is quite reliable - I own other Kingston products and they have never let me down - hopefully this will also stand the test of time for me!  ... more

If you read my latest review you'll know that I recently purchased a USB flash drive from Asda as an emergency buy because my laptop started playing up and I was worried about losing my picture files. You'll also know that I then ordered a second flash drive to compensate for the fact that the one I bought as a stop gap option was only 1GB. The other I then purchased from the internet was a larger 4GB and was a huge life saver enabling me to store all my remaining pictures that I couldn't fit on the 1GB flash drive I'd already bought and filled!

What is it?
Well this flash or pen drive as they are sometimes called is a small device to enable you to store all your important documents on whether it be pictures, word files and so on, so should your pc fail on you they are all safe to then just upload back to your pc. I now keep all my important files stored on this and my other pen drive permanently so I never need to worry about losing them at all.

What does it look like?
The USB flash drive is no more than 2 inches in size and this particular model is silver and blue (I wanted the pink but they were all sold out - I will be getting another one though soon in pink!). The pen has a swivel bit on so that you can turn the USB port to be stuck out so you can plug it in and then when you're finished with it you simply turn it so that the USB bit is safely protected tucked under the silver metal bit.

How does it work?
It works on a 'plug and play' method which means that you simply plug it into the pc you need to store data from and it should detect the device. Once it has it is ready to use and all you have to do is simply drag files to the folder that shows up under 'removable disk'. Once the drive is full it will flash up and tell you and when you are finished dragging files to it, you simply click on to remove and it will advise when it is OK to remove from the USB port. I had never used one of these prior to the one I first bought recently followed by this one and both worked on the same concept and even I, who is not very technical had managed to do it with no help! You can tell I'm not technical when I didn't even know about pen drives until I freaked out and had to phone my friend worrying about losing my pictures if my laptop died and she asked me why I hadn't already saved them on an external drive to which I was completely confused and so she was the one who told me to go and buy one!

How fast is it?
Again I'm not the most technical but, as I mentioned in the other review on my other pen drive I couldn't tell you if this is what the techies would call fast as I have no idea what is and what isn't in terms of advanced technology however, my other one took a couple of minutes to upload a file with just over 200 pictures in it, yet this did it in less than a minute. So in my eyes this is faster and so makes uploading files to it a quicker process than my other but, I'm sure if there is faster I will be told by somebody on here! I can't complain though as I was happy with it so that's the important thing isn't it?

Price:
For this particular model I paid £6.99 which included delivery from mymemory.co.uk. I was really chuffed with this because as I mentioned this is 4GB in size and yet the emergency one I bought from Asda was only 1GB and cost me £5!! So a bargain if you ask me!

Overall opinion:
I am pleased with it and I certainly will be buying another - I already plan to get the pink one when it comes into stock as I am always adding pictures to my laptop and so will always need even more storage for them. I like the shade of blue that it is as it's quite bright and funky and so it is nice to look at but, more importantly it does what it's meant to do and it is efficient so you can upload files in minutes. I would recommend this product to anyone who needs a flash drive. Another plus is that the brand of it in my eyes is quite reliable - I own other Kingston products and they have never let me down - hopefully this will also stand the test of time for me! 

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