Accessory of the Week If Apple won’t go USB 3.0, at least almost every other computer maker has. While eSata, Firewire 800 and Thunderbolt are certainly better for Desktop drives, SuperSpeed is the only choice when you want to copy files quickly onto a stick and go.
Kingston’s DataTraveler Ultimate G2 is its latest USB 3.0 Flash drive, replacing the the first-gen drives that, while they performed well, had a tendency to get rather hot when connected and shuffling bits back and forth.
The G2 retains the previous model’s chunky casing, so if you like your Flash keys slim and discreet, this one isn’t for you. Read the rest of this entry »
Review The PNY’s new Attaché Original USB Flash drive arrived just too late for our recent Fast Flash Drive round-up, but we decided to try it out nonetheless.
The Attaché Original: faster than PNY’s previous top-speed stick
Like previous Attachés, the new model uses a slide-and-swivel mechanism to withdraw the USB connector from a bay at one end of the cover then rotate it out into the open and round so it’s ready for connection.
What has changed is that the new version is two-thirds of the size of its predecessor – named Attaché without qualification – and that the main body of the drive is bright see-through coloured plastic. The colour depends on the capacity: purple for 4GB, blue for 8GB, red for 16GB and green for the 32GB stick. Read the rest of this entry »
