256GB in Your Pocket with the Kingston DataTraveler 310

USB thumb drives are rarely spectacular in any way, but Kingston’s DataTraveler 310 definitely sets a new standard for USB sticks. It’s not often you see one with 256 gigs of storage space. Actually, never until this thing came along – at the time of writing, this is the world’s largest commercially available memory stick. The DataTraveler 310 is also unusually fast, with read/write transfer rates at 25MB/s and 12MB/s respectively, which is very fast for a thumb drive.

When you have a thumb drive that can hold quite a few annual company budgets with room to spare, you need to some security, which comes standard with the Kingston DataTraveler 310. An app aptly named Password Traveler lets you password protect your files. As all thumb drives it should work flawlessly with Windows, Mac or Linux, although the Password Traveler application only works with Windows, so Mac/Linux users will have to use another encryption solution such as the free TrueCrypt.

Now the largest USB stick in the known universe is obviously not cheap, but it’s currently available for $324 below MSRP, bringing it down from $1,108 to $783.90 at MemoryC via Amazon Marketplace. (Locate “More Buying Choices” in the right column).

A 256GB thumb drive should come in handy for many professionals such as architects and others with large storage requirements, but it’s of course having 256GB of data in your pocket is an attractive proposition for just about anyone. You can save a liberal amount of movies, music and other important stuff that you want on your person at all times.

Purchase the 256GB Kingston DataTraveler 310 Via Amazon.com

256 GB of data, allows you to store:

• 10 Blu-ray discs (~25 GB each)
• 54 DVD discs (~4.7 GB each)
• 365 CD discs (~700 MB each)