Kingston DTI 4 GB USB Flash Drive | 
| Brand: Kingston
List Price: $28.99
Buy New: $4.50
You Save: $24.49 (84%)
New (58) Used (2) from $4.50
Rating:  395 reviews
Format: Cd
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 1 x 2.9 x 0.4
Memory Size - 4GB, Write Speed - USB 2.0
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: DTI4GB
Model: DTI4GB
UPC: 740617109702
EAN: 0740617109658
ASIN: B000M2GYF6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Designed to Hi-Speed USB 2.0 specifications | | • | Pocket-sized for easy transportability | | • | Just plug and play into a USB port | | • | Stores cap securely on end of device to prevent loss of cap | | • | Five-year warranty |
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Product Description
The DataTraveler is a reliable, inexpensive solution for carrying files or your next promotion. Now you can store, carry and transfer files quickly in an affordable, convenient device. The DataTraveler from Kingston helps budget-conscious users break storage barriers, allowing you to easily store and move files in a device no bigger than a pocketknife. The DataTraveler can hold just about any file. It works with virtually any device with a USB port even cross-platform from Macintosh to PC and vice versa. The DataTraveler also makes a great promotional item for your organization. It's simple to add your logo to increase brand-recognition.
Amazon.com Product Description
This 4 GB USB flash drive lightens your load without emptying your wallet. As easy as click and drag, the DataTraveler holds just about any file you can think of--from reports and pictures, to spreadsheets and other important documents. It works with virtually any device with a USB port--even cross-platform from Macintosh to PC and vice versa. Manufactured with the highest quality available, this Kingston flash drive comes with a 5-year limited warranty.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 390 more reviews...
 Excellent Thumb Drive May 12, 2007
R. McElveen (Tallahassee, Fl. USA)
98 out of 103 found this review helpful
I found this thumb drive to be a very good one. It is 4GB, so it holds a large amount of data, and software. It is relatively tough, I have carried it in my backpack and have had NO problems with it. Also, I just bought a new laptop with Vista, and it works wonderfully! However, I also bought a Sandisk 4GB Titanium Drive and it was not compatible with my new laptop. Overall, I love this Kingston drive!
Exactly what I wanted November 21, 2007
Tyler Forge (Sunnydale, CA)
98 out of 108 found this review helpful
This thumb drive is exactly what I wanted. Cheap, reliable, and without some kind of vendor supplied crapware that automatically runs when you insert the drive.
I use truecrypt for creating/using an encrypted partition. Works fine, but one word of warning. Format the encrypted partition as FAT. An NTFS partition running on a thumb drive can have dismount issues. Eventually, those issues will trash the partition.
I've run this drive for a month now and it has been fine even though it bangs around in a pocket with phone, knife, change, etc. A corsair drive failed after a few days of this treatment.
Handy May 12, 2007
Jonathan A. Kanner (Raiwaqa, Suva, Fiji)
88 out of 97 found this review helpful
Good capacity, compact, cheap, from a known company with a reputation for reliability. I bought this as a backup device. It will fit easily not only into a pocket, but also into someone else's fire-resistant offsite file space. Data retention on these devices is supposed to be good, and with a batch of these, I never have to worry about where to keep an extensive backup set - they'll slip into a safe deposit box (unlike a stack of CD's) or into spaces between papers in a fire-proof cabinet. Unlike DVD-R's they have an establshed track-record on long-term data retention and will not be damaged by laying up against other objects in a drawer that may cause minor but destructive warps to a DVD.
 Small File Writes are Painfully Slow October 10, 2007
Frederick W. McManus (Glendale, WI USA)
66 out of 70 found this review helpful
After opening the package, I popped my DTI/4GB into a USB port and copied a number of relatively small files to it (310 files totalling 5.1 mb). It took a full 2 minutes (that's 44 kBps), which was slow enough to convince me I'd gotten a lemon (I copied the same files to my old Sandisk Cruzer 1 gb in 20 seconds). After a couple emails to tech support, Kingston advised me to return it for a new one.
The new one arrived quickly, but performed identically to the old one. For kicks, I installed Sandra 2008 and benchmarked the device's performance. I found that, for small files (512 B), the transfer rate was barely 1 kBps. I contacted Kingston support again, this time providing more details about my testing and the benchmark results I'd gotten out of Sandra. The tech confirmed that this is a low-end device, that the slowness I was experiencing was normal, and that I probably should have sprung for something in their DTS line (too rich for my blood).
Now the good news. If you don't tend to copy a lot of small files, you'll probably be perfectly happy with this device. Once the file size gets to about 256 kb, writes to this drive speed up nicely. Reads are always fast. And tech support was exemplary. My only other complaint would be that the cheap plastic case does not inspire confidence.
No matter how you look at it, however, this is not a 5-star item by any stretch of the imagination. Not even for the money.
 Not Window Vista ReadyBoost Compatible! October 15, 2007
HSLee (Asia-USA-UK)
25 out of 39 found this review helpful
I wanted a flash drive for a Window Vista RAM ReadyBoost. As it says "works with Window Vista," I thought it would be used to serve the purpose, but I was wrong. This is the writing I found from Kingston FAQ;
' ReadyBoost is a Windows Vista feature which has the ability to utilize USB flash drive storage space to improve system performance. DT1 DataTraveler High Speed does not support Windows ReadyBoost. '
It is simply an inexpensive slow secondary back up tools. It is handy to own a flash drive for everyone. But it has shown a slower file transfer rate than my other media like Memorex 4Gb flash drive sold at $70+, and ultra 2Gb Sandisk memory card, that is almost several months old now.
The reason I give 2 star is because it is low-priced.
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