Kingston DataTraveler Kyson, marketed as a high-performance USB flash drive with read speeds of up to 200MB/s and write speeds of 60MB/s. I have a 128GB unit purchased directly from Kingston.
Here are some notes about real life performance of the Kingston DataTraveler Kyson USB Flash Drive that might be of help in informing your purchase decision.
The specs of my windows PC aren’t important. It’s a 2020-era AMD AM4 machine and has no trouble reading or writing at speeds far in excess of what this flash drive tops out at. Flash drive is also connected to a USB 3.0 port, so there are no fundamental bottlenecks here.
While copying a 40GB file to this drive, the write speed at which file transfer spent the most time at was just shy of 30MB/s.
The read speed tracked slightly higher than rated at 220MB/s for the same file being copied from USB to internal SSD.
An attempt to run CrystalDiskMark 8 on the flash drive using a 32GB file spent over 10 minutes “preparing…”, and so I cancelled it, as I did not think it would add any further value to the above information.
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