Conclusion

With the DataTraveler HyperX 3.0, Kingston has a really fast - SSD like - USB stick in its portfolio. In relation to the memory capacity it even comes with an attractive price tag. Many other USB stick with this amount of memory cost more and do offer less performance. Compared to a standard USB stick it delivers quite a lot more throughput. Especially with it comes to write speeds, then the eight channel controller scores very well. In certain tests you can see almost a tenfold increase in write performance. Copying MP3 files to the stick is quite a lot faster to the DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 than to a standard USB stick. Especially when reading or writing small files it's also faster than an external hard drive.

Nevertheless under ATTO one can see that the stick also has a weakness. When it has to write very small block (0.5 to 4.0 kB) it performs worse than a standard USB Stick. Under Windows we didn't see this happen too. The numbers we measured for the Kingston stick were substantially higher in any real world test.

The Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 gets good four out of five stars.

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