Product Description

DataTraveler is ideal for home office, small business, schools and promotions. It's affordable and puts mobile storage in nearly anyone's hands. Lighten your load without emptying your wallet. Get affordable, mobile USB storage. Now you can store, carry and transfer files quickly in an affordable, convenient device. The DataTraveler from Kingston helps budget-conscious users break storage barriers, allowing you to easily store and move files in a device no bigger than a pocketknife. DataTraveler replaces the needs for floppies and the hassle of CDs. As easy as click and drag, the DataTraveler can hold just about any file you can think of - reports pictures, spreadsheets or other important documents. It works with virtually any device with a USB port - even cross-platform from Macintosh to PC and vice versa.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #202 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Kingston
• Model: DTI4GB
• Released on: 2007-12-02
• ESRB Rating: Rating Pending
• Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
• Dimensions: .39" h x 2.86" w x .94" l, .2 pounds

Features

• USB flash drive
• 4 GB
• Hi-Speed USB
• Purple
• Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP SP1 or later, Apple MacOS X 10.x or later, Microsoft Windows Vista

Manufacturer's Description
Now you can store, carry and transfer large files in an affordable, convenient device. The DataTraveler® from Kingston Technology® helps budget-conscious users break storage barriers, allowing them to easily store and move large files in a device no bigger than a pocketknife. As easy as click and drag, the DataTraveler can hold just about any file you can think of term papers, theses, digital images, spreadsheets or other important documents. It works with virtually any computer with a USB port. The DataTraveler is also a great promotional item for businesses; your company logo can appear on it to increase your brand-recognition, and it comes in multiple colors based on capacity.

Backed by a five-year warranty and Kingston Technology's legendary service and support, DataTraveler is a reliable, inexpensive solution for carrying digital files with you wherever you go. Not compatible with: Win NT,Win 95,Win 98,Win ME.

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Customer Reviews

Excellent Flash Drive For The Car
I bought 2 of these flash drives for reasons not really mentioned in any of the other reviews.
I recently bought and installed a new Sony Radio/CD player for my car, and it has amongst other things a USB port for connecting external devices. I ripped & transfered several hundred music MP3's to my flash drive for use in my car. It does away with having to carry loads of CD's in the car (reduces the chance's of theft), you don't need a bulky CD changer in the boot, the tracks don't skip if you drive over some really bad road surfaces, you are not constantly having to change CD's while driving. I just plug it in, switch on the shuffle mode and it plays all my favourite tracks in random order. It's just like having a jukebox in the car, and when you park up, you just put the flash drive in your pocket - brilliant !!! I nearly forgot to mention that when I get back in my car and plug the flash drive in the CD Player, it starts playback where it left off.

2nd one I have purchased and 2nd one that has died
Bought a 2gb one and it was fine for 6 months then died so I just upgraded and bought a 4gb one and now this has died too. Cheers Kingston! Think I'll try another manufacturer next time. :(

A good USB flash thats cheap, good looking and functional - but my new 8Gb version runs 2x faster
I only buy USB2 flash drives for under £30 and don't need security features. In fact if it's lost I am happy for someone to find my name & work phone number so it can be returned - although I do write all this on the white surface of this USB stick anyway. This one feels very solid, looks great (I prefer the green 2Gb but this purple 4Gb still looks cool). Mine came with a classy clip on string loop that you can attach to stuff [but my latest 8Gb version didn't, which was a disappointment]. However the attachment point is flimsy plastic so I never use it like that - and don't expect this cheap non-metal cased drive to survive long on your key-ring anyway. Safely stored during transport, three of these 4Gb flash drives have worked for me & the kids for over a year, so it's also reliable - but naturally you can't treat it as a safe backup device for crucial files. Compared to system bus speeds, this USB2 flash is also slow, and only suitable for transferring a small number of files (say up to 100Mb per day) to and from work, although expect the 4Gb space to clog up over time. The 4Gb RAM itself should last between 12 and 50 years [about 100,000 cycles], but the mechanical USB connector is prone to failure anytime. For older USB1 equipped PCs install a Belkin 5-port USB2 PCI card (it's 40x faster and large file transfers just don't seem to like USB1) - these Belkin USB2 cards works fine with this flash drive in my two 7 year old PIII & Athlon [1GHz XP] PCs. This 4Gb traveller flash drive sits at the bottom of Kingston's range, and they designate it as `consumer' rather than 'corporate/government' quality, i.e. it's not as well built, secure or as fast as more expensive Kingston flash drives. It still comes with a 5 year warranty though.

Being USB2, this flash drive is fast enough for my simple home/work file transfer needs. A single 25Mb file copies in 9 seconds, but if it's 1,000 files totalling 400Mb then expect nearer 7 minutes, and another 5 minutes to delete the folder. My new 8Gb version of this drive [a dull black/white colour] runs at over twice this speed, so check that one out as well. Over 1Gb of data I'd probably write a DVD-R/RW instead, and for regular transfer of data this size or more I'd use my bijou 60Gb external 2.5" laptop hard-drive anyway. I don't need ReadyBoost stuff for Vista - I just add 4Gb PC system RAM running at full bus speed instead [some say this RAM disk works with Vista ReadyBoost for them, some say it doesn't - but at the speed this flash drive runs, who cares]. Plus it's colourful design means its easy to spot lying about. The end cap clips on firmly, so you should only loose it when the drive is plugged into a PC (and then it will be lying somewhere nearby). I keep the drive in its original blister pack (cut off the sealed edge carefully), and jam it all in the outer pocket of my backpack - which gives extra protection from dust and shoves, plus it make the drive easy to find when ferreting about. For around a tenner this is a great product, and an almost iconic design, although the duller looking 8Gb version transfers files at twice the speed of this 4Gb one.