Real world tests.

One thing is clear, using benchmarks is only one way to determine the maximum performance of your drive, however things are different during real use. With these tests I will try to cover some of the everyday use that this drive will undergo. That includes copying & pasting from an HDD to the flash drive and vice versa. One other thing that is also very important is its compatibility.

Compatibility

This is a simple test, I will simply plug the Kingston DataTraveler Elite 3.0 in various machines, two PC’s, a laptop, a netbook, one mini Hi-Fi, a media player and two TV’s. So let’s see if the Kingston DataTraveler Elite 3.0 flash drive works on all these machines.

As we can see there weren’t any compatibility issues. Also the flash drive was tested on two different Kenwood car stereos and again it worked fine.

Copy & Paste tests

This is the most common task that you are likely to perform, copying files from one destination to another. To measure the time for this test, I used a stopwatch. There are three tests that I will run, first I will copy pictures, then music and finally one MKV movie. The source will be the OS SSD on my computer, and then I will copy them from the Kingston DatatTraveler Elite 3.0 to the SSD.

Let’s start our test by copying 2,56GB of pictures.

Now let’s see the performance when it comes to copying 1.36GB of MP3 files.

I finish our test by copying an MKV movie and the file that contained the subtitles, the size was 3.46GB.

As we can clearly see from these three simple tests the drive shows the same great performance not only with benchmarks, but most importantly it gives an excellent performance when it comes to real life use.

Conclusion

Positive

• Great performance
• Sliding mechanism
• Stylish three colour design
• Five year warranty
• Low price

Negative

• None

Time to finish this review, and again I am left with only positive things to say about the Kingston DataTraveler Elite 3.0, starting with the low price, £38 on Amazon, and €45 in local shops in Greece. The five year warranty is also something that worth taking into consideration, along with the 70MB/Sec Read and the impressive 35MB/Sec Write speeds that we got during our tests.

There aren’t many times that I am completely satisfied with something. This is one of the few times that I can’t complain about anything. Low price, great performance and a five year warranty. Kingston is showing how to make an outstanding USB3 flash drive. Therefore I give the ‘Outstanding’ and the ‘Editor’s Choice’ awards.

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