May 17, 2017 at 20:06The most capacious flash drive in the world! Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT Review with 2 TB of Memory
Hi% username%! Something went wrong in the struggle between the projectile and the armor, that is, the drives and the typical amount of data. Instead of unprecedentedly capacious and tiny USB 3.0 drives, we got cloud storage with tracking and slippery rules of use, and archaic external hard drives that do not even reveal the potential of the nine-year-old SATA-III interface. Today we are testing the lucky exception to the rule - an ultramodern, most capacious flash drive with a capacity of as much as 2 TB. How fast is it, what’s the catch of the “record holders” flash drives, and why do we need 2000 “hectares” in the size of a lipstick?
With technology, this sometimes happens - they conceived one thing, it turned out another, and time turned innovation into something third. The fact that more practical flash drives have replaced CDs and tapes is encouraging, but the data is gradually getting thicker from year to year , flash memory is improving, but high-capacity high-capacity drives are still almost always mechanical, fragile and slow. You can’t send them inside laptops anymore; it’s not very convenient to use them on the road. Therefore, many do not use it, but download their own files from the cloud at the cost of traffic on a smartphone (or even surcharges for tethering), or using public Wi-Fi, you know.
But flash drives for some reason got stuck in strange roles: even relatively capacious (128-256 GB) models more often transfer files between computers in cases where it’s too lazy to raise the LAN. Because really solid flash drives with a reserve capacity are vanishingly small. And almost all of them are made by Kingston: in 2013 the world saw the world's first terabyte USB Flash drive with a capacity of 1 TB, and three years later the DataTraveler Ultimate GT appeared with 2 TB on board. And that’s all we know from the news, so it's time to dig deeper. That is, to figure out whether the record-breaking storage device will turn out to be really fast, why such titans are needed and whether the “king flash drive” differs externally or in operation from “just flash drives”.
Let's smoke, comrade, one
morning, as you know, does not start with coffee, and unpacking the flash drive does not start with the flash drive itself - the drive is inside a metal case. Case looks very army-like, although its mission is peaceful - it stores a flash drive, a carrying bag and an extension cable. A cable is needed in order to connect 2 terabytes even to computers and televisions, whose ports are closely adjacent to each other.
Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT Package Contents
The drive has not changed much externally since its terabyte predecessor, but it is already good. Beautiful galvanized metal with durable paint, a rectangular case without a hint of advanced aerodynamics and gamer flirting. The case looks expensive and durable, unless you decide to open it purposefully. But you shouldn’t disassemble the DataTraveler Ultimate GT, because you can safely remove only half of the case. If you keep zealous further, there is a risk of damaging the printed circuit board and memory chips, losing the five-year warranty and getting many sadness as a result of manipulations. Do not try to repeat this at home!
By design, the flash drive is a slider, clicks when extending the halves in the manner of vintage Finnish cell phones(vintage, yep - feel old). The connection standard is USB 3.1 Gen 1, that is, USB 3.0 . Universal Serial Bus developers love to confuse their designs.
The cable comes in handy when you need to connect a USB flash drive to a computer with an uncomfortable USB location
• Interface USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB 3.0)
• Capacity 2 TB
• Speed USB 3.1: 300 MB / s (read), 200 MB / s (write)
Gigabytes, as it turned out recently, the concept is relative , but according to the global standard, the actual capacity is 1 979 958 951 936 bytes, that is, in terms of we get about 1.79 TB. The familiar MLC-memory is supplemented by the powerful controller Phison PS2308 - it, by the way, is used in the fastest HyperX Savage . Kingston promises up to 300 MB / s in sequential reads, and up to 200 MB / s in sequential reads. We check how things are in practice.
• Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K
• Motherboard: ASUS Maximus IX Hero, Socket 1151
• RAM: HyperX Predator DDR4-3000 8 Gb (2 * 4 Gb)
• System SSD-drive: HyperX Predator PCI-E SSD 480 Gb
• Video card: AMD Fury X
• Power supply: Corsair AX1200i, 1200W
• Operating system: Windows 10 Professional (64-bit)
Crystal Disk Mark 5.2.0
A well-known test, which, probably, is not necessary for the public, but for the protocol:
An application that tests the drive in four modes: linear read / write, read / write 4K blocks and linear read / write when the depth of the queue is 32 teams, reading / writing blocks in 4K with the depth of the queue is 32 teams. The unspoken standard in the controversy is "my flash drive is cooler than yours!"
NTFS
exFAT
The spread of numbers in the results depends on the computer configuration, motherboard and other factors, but our flash drive speed is almost identical to that promised by the manufacturer. And, as you see, in sequential operations it is several times faster than a hard drive, and by the standards of SSD it is very good. For USB Flash drives, this option is important because capacious flash drives are needed to read and write data in gigabytes, as quickly as possible. Videos, photos in RAW, music in lossless and the like, which are scary even to “try on” to a 256 GB ultrabook drive. This is the element of fast capacious flash drives. You can fill two terabytes to the eyeballs in 3.5 hours (very quickly, taking into account how much and what specific things can be written to such a drive). Thresher of small files, whatever one may say,
"Stotysch!". That is 100 thousand rubles today is the most capacious flash drive with a five-year warranty. It’s not cheap, we’ll be honest, but, like any other record holder, such a flash drive could not be available the first time after the start of production. For example, the best laptop or server processor cannot be called affordable either. But it’s already pleasant that the beginning has been made, the price will drop after the technology leaves the exotic rank, and most importantly, you will definitely not be left without fast capacious drives. Kingston guarantees!
And if your mind is not stirs memory in flash drives, and ultra-fast "RAM", do not miss the HyperX share for everyone: we we give a discount in the amount of 10%to HyperX Fury DDR4 modules (in any color). The discount is valid in Yulmart until May 29, 2017 under the HXCOLOUR promotional code . You still have time to make a racing PC out of your home PC!
Subscribe and stay with us - it will be interesting! For more information on Kingston and HyperX products, visit the company's official website . A page with a visual aid will help you choose your HyperX kit .
With technology, this sometimes happens - they conceived one thing, it turned out another, and time turned innovation into something third. The fact that more practical flash drives have replaced CDs and tapes is encouraging, but the data is gradually getting thicker from year to year , flash memory is improving, but high-capacity high-capacity drives are still almost always mechanical, fragile and slow. You can’t send them inside laptops anymore; it’s not very convenient to use them on the road. Therefore, many do not use it, but download their own files from the cloud at the cost of traffic on a smartphone (or even surcharges for tethering), or using public Wi-Fi, you know.
But flash drives for some reason got stuck in strange roles: even relatively capacious (128-256 GB) models more often transfer files between computers in cases where it’s too lazy to raise the LAN. Because really solid flash drives with a reserve capacity are vanishingly small. And almost all of them are made by Kingston: in 2013 the world saw the world's first terabyte USB Flash drive with a capacity of 1 TB, and three years later the DataTraveler Ultimate GT appeared with 2 TB on board. And that’s all we know from the news, so it's time to dig deeper. That is, to figure out whether the record-breaking storage device will turn out to be really fast, why such titans are needed and whether the “king flash drive” differs externally or in operation from “just flash drives”.
Angular and brutal
morning, as you know, does not start with coffee, and unpacking the flash drive does not start with the flash drive itself - the drive is inside a metal case. Case looks very army-like, although its mission is peaceful - it stores a flash drive, a carrying bag and an extension cable. A cable is needed in order to connect 2 terabytes even to computers and televisions, whose ports are closely adjacent to each other.
Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT Package Contents
The drive has not changed much externally since its terabyte predecessor, but it is already good. Beautiful galvanized metal with durable paint, a rectangular case without a hint of advanced aerodynamics and gamer flirting. The case looks expensive and durable, unless you decide to open it purposefully. But you shouldn’t disassemble the DataTraveler Ultimate GT, because you can safely remove only half of the case. If you keep zealous further, there is a risk of damaging the printed circuit board and memory chips, losing the five-year warranty and getting many sadness as a result of manipulations. Do not try to repeat this at home!
By design, the flash drive is a slider, clicks when extending the halves in the manner of vintage Finnish cell phones(vintage, yep - feel old). The connection standard is USB 3.1 Gen 1, that is, USB 3.0 . Universal Serial Bus developers love to confuse their designs.
The cable comes in handy when you need to connect a USB flash drive to a computer with an uncomfortable USB location
Specifications
• Interface USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB 3.0)
• Capacity 2 TB
• Speed USB 3.1: 300 MB / s (read), 200 MB / s (write)
Gigabytes, as it turned out recently, the concept is relative , but according to the global standard, the actual capacity is 1 979 958 951 936 bytes, that is, in terms of we get about 1.79 TB. The familiar MLC-memory is supplemented by the powerful controller Phison PS2308 - it, by the way, is used in the fastest HyperX Savage . Kingston promises up to 300 MB / s in sequential reads, and up to 200 MB / s in sequential reads. We check how things are in practice.
Testing
Test stand
• Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K
• Motherboard: ASUS Maximus IX Hero, Socket 1151
• RAM: HyperX Predator DDR4-3000 8 Gb (2 * 4 Gb)
• System SSD-drive: HyperX Predator PCI-E SSD 480 Gb
• Video card: AMD Fury X
• Power supply: Corsair AX1200i, 1200W
• Operating system: Windows 10 Professional (64-bit)
Test application:
Crystal Disk Mark 5.2.0
A well-known test, which, probably, is not necessary for the public, but for the protocol:
An application that tests the drive in four modes: linear read / write, read / write 4K blocks and linear read / write when the depth of the queue is 32 teams, reading / writing blocks in 4K with the depth of the queue is 32 teams. The unspoken standard in the controversy is "my flash drive is cooler than yours!"
NTFS
exFAT
The spread of numbers in the results depends on the computer configuration, motherboard and other factors, but our flash drive speed is almost identical to that promised by the manufacturer. And, as you see, in sequential operations it is several times faster than a hard drive, and by the standards of SSD it is very good. For USB Flash drives, this option is important because capacious flash drives are needed to read and write data in gigabytes, as quickly as possible. Videos, photos in RAW, music in lossless and the like, which are scary even to “try on” to a 256 GB ultrabook drive. This is the element of fast capacious flash drives. You can fill two terabytes to the eyeballs in 3.5 hours (very quickly, taking into account how much and what specific things can be written to such a drive). Thresher of small files, whatever one may say,
How much how much?
"Stotysch!". That is 100 thousand rubles today is the most capacious flash drive with a five-year warranty. It’s not cheap, we’ll be honest, but, like any other record holder, such a flash drive could not be available the first time after the start of production. For example, the best laptop or server processor cannot be called affordable either. But it’s already pleasant that the beginning has been made, the price will drop after the technology leaves the exotic rank, and most importantly, you will definitely not be left without fast capacious drives. Kingston guarantees!
And if your mind is not stirs memory in flash drives, and ultra-fast "RAM", do not miss the HyperX share for everyone: we we give a discount in the amount of 10%to HyperX Fury DDR4 modules (in any color). The discount is valid in Yulmart until May 29, 2017 under the HXCOLOUR promotional code . You still have time to make a racing PC out of your home PC!
Subscribe and stay with us - it will be interesting! For more information on Kingston and HyperX products, visit the company's official website . A page with a visual aid will help you choose your HyperX kit .