If you’re looking for a high-speed, high-capacity flash drive, then here’s what Kingston just cooked up to fill that void: the Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0, a USB flash drive that offers 225MB/s read and 135MB/s write speeds (on a USB 3.0 connection) in a drive that packs in up to 256GB of storage. Basically giving you the power to store up to 10 Blu-ray discs or 54 DVDs in your pocket. This kind of performance won’t come cheap though; prices start at $193 for the 64GB version, while the 128GB model costs $377. The top-end 256GB version is still listed as “coming soon,” but you get where this is going. It’s not for the faint-of-heart. Official press release and promo video after the break.
LaCie and silver design house Christofle teamed up to come out with this shiny thing. Called the Galet, it’s basically a 4GB USB flash drive packed inside a silver-plated pebble-like thing. And that’s pretty much it—it’s a drive that’ll look good beside your other shiny silver stuff, in case you’re the type of person who likes shiny silver accessories. The drive itself supports the USB 3.0 interface for faster file transfers and comes with 4GBs of Wuala online storage and built-in encryption.
Seriously, the marketing guys over at LaCie seem like a fun bunch. Not that we’re surprised… they did call their other USB keys the CooKey and WhizKey after all. So now, we have this tiny new thing called the MosKeyto. Tiny is probably an understatement; the MosKeyto has got to be one of the smallest USB drives available right now—at least the smallest we’ve seen without featuring a flat, chip-on-board interface that really doesn’t work with that well with older USB ports.
The smallest ever USB flash drive? We have no way to check SanDisk’s claim for the new Cruzer Blade, but we have to agree that this drive is really tiny. We couldn’t get a photo with a size reference, but if you see that hole on the corner, that’s where you loop a keychain through. So yeah, it’s tiny. About the size of a standard paper clip and about as light as a penny, the Cruzer Blade can easily be strapped to a keychain or mobile phone. Pretty handy if you ever needed a high-capacity mobile drive to go wherever your car keys go. Despite its size, it still packs a lot of data, with capacities ranging from the average 2GBs to a whopping 16GBs.
The Cruzer Blade is now available in the US and Canada, selling for $15 (2GB), $22 (4GB), $39 (8GB) and $78 (16GB).
While we’d all want our flash drives to come with enough protection to survive rough conditions, LaCie’s XtremeKey USB 2.0 flash drive takes it a step further. First off, it comes in a shell that’s built to take on conditions that are so extreme, you’d have to wonder why you’d need it in the first place.
