Kingston has shown off its first USB 3.0 memory stick, with the Kingston DataTraveller Ultimate 3.0 bringing SuperSpeed USB transfer times.

With UK prices ranging from £56 for a 16GB stick right up to £172 for the 64GB version, Kingston's latest USB stick offers transfer speeds up to 10 times faster than its USB 2.0 siblings.

"USB 3.0 is the next major milestone in flash memory for USB products and the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 is our first USB 3.0 flash drive offering in the marketplace," said Steve Hall, EMEA product development manager of flash, Kingston Technology

Internal tests

"We have run several internal tests to demonstrate the speed of the new drives, for example a 1 hour 44 minute movie (3.9GB) was transferred to the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 drive in 1 minute 13 seconds," he added

"Similarly, a 2 hour 23 minute DVD (4.4GB) transferred to the drive at a fast 1 minute 23 seconds".

The prices for the still relatively new USB 3.0 technology are likely to drop – but if you are desperate for a bit more transfer speed, then you now have an option.


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Good - I can get one to use with my USB 3 computer I'll probably have in 5 years.

The capacity of memory sticks is so small, USB2 speeds aren't really an issue.
USB3 external hard drives are where you'll really notice the difference.

Same here. I think that for hard drives it will be useful, though it will be handy if you start to replace devices.

Can SATA II/SSD write fast enough for all this throughput? There's the theoretical transfer speeds of 3Gb/s and such, but can the components-combined of current (sensibly priced/specced) domestic computer architecture support all these (seemingly theoretical) speeds?

SSD yes but SATA HDD not so sure, probably not.

SSD.... unlikely at current speeds for most consumer grade products

I saw a video of a DVD scale transfer 4 Gb in 0.7 seconds using SSD. So that would appear not be the problem.

The latest consumer ones require SATA 6gig rather than SATA "II", so yeah, some SSDs will supply that much data that quickly.

Crucial C300 yes?

Can't see them fitting that on a USB stick easily and that is what we are talking about