Kingston ships 256GB DataTraveler 310 USB flash drive to affluent Yanks

No matter how you slice it, having 256GB on your keychain is pretty rad. For those living in various regions of the world not named America, they've had access to the DataTraveler 300 for just under a year. Thankfully, the Kingston finally realized that Yanks love capaciousness as well, and the DataTraveler 310 is the solution that very sect has been longing for. Hailed as the first 256GB flash drive to ship in the States, the DT 310 is capable of holding up to 54 DVDs or 51,000 JPEGs of your undercover lover, and it'll function just fine with Windows, Linux and OS X-based systems. We're told that it'll sport data transfer rates of 25MB/sec (read) and 12MB/sec (write), but chances are you'll never get the opportunity to put those claims to the test. You know, given that astronomical $1,108 MSRP.

Kingston 256GB DataTraveler 310 USB flash drive

[benjman9 Posted Apr 28th 2010 6:58PM]

@Koneck Kingston must really be losing it. I'll wait till they cost $50 and have a built in computer. Thank you Kingston! nice try for $1108!

[benjman9 Posted Apr 28th 2010 6:59PM]

@benjman9
oh, and i'm waiting until the transfer all 256 gb in 1/2 a second

[boe Posted Feb 18th 2010 3:17PM]

I'm not buying another thumb drive that isn't USB 3.0

[youreanidiot Posted Feb 18th 2010 3:24PM]

GOD I would hate to have realized that I let that thing stay in my pants and go through a washer/dryer run hah.

[jonyah Posted Feb 18th 2010 3:31PM]

yet it still has a cap. stop making these with caps, we all just lose them. there are so many other better designs out there. seems like all the larger ones have the cheapest construction.

[Ignacio Posted Feb 18th 2010 4:26PM]

@jonyah Put the cap on the back? (last picture)

[detonator Posted Feb 18th 2010 8:26PM]

@Ignacio
forcing people spend extra energy never worked. look ad soda cans.

[LowRidinCrew Posted Feb 18th 2010 4:25PM]

Thats crazy since the damn thing isnt USB 3.0

[walsho Posted Feb 18th 2010 4:30PM]

I'd love to have so much data on my keyring, but if you have to wait forever to move that much data, it sure take away a lot of the luster.

[Maeztro Posted Feb 18th 2010 4:33PM]

I remember having a 256MB drive and thinking I was all that...

[bill cant fart Posted Feb 18th 2010 4:40PM]

Are they serious? $1,108 for only 256g- Wait, gigabytes?!

*poops then faints*

[harold1127 Posted Feb 18th 2010 6:26PM]

Omg that's insane, I can remember back in like 2003 when it was cool to have a 256MB or 512MB flash drive now there's 256GB that's amazing.

[masada Posted Feb 18th 2010 6:31PM]

Pff...in a year from now Walmart will be selling it for $20.

[thumbtack Posted Feb 18th 2010 7:03PM]

My internal drive is 160gb, I don't know how to feel about this. Although this does cost $108 more than my computer.

[kenny goo Posted Feb 18th 2010 8:24PM]

In other news, 128GB USB flash drives are getting closer to $300. Yipee!

[Inspector Gadget80 Posted Feb 18th 2010 8:34PM]

That's a nice size. But I don't I want that. 1,108$ for that tiny thing with BIG MEMORY. Thanks but no thanks. If you loose that drive their you waist 1,108$.

[Inspector Gadget80 Posted Feb 18th 2010 8:36PM]

That's a nice size. But I don't want that. 1,108$ for that tiny thing with BIG MEMORY. Thanks but no thanks. If you loose that drive their you waist 1,108$.

[skillnessman Posted Feb 18th 2010 10:09PM]

Say again? 1984 JPEG's? Your pictures have to be like 100MB EACH to fit only 1984 pics @_@

[Willstay Posted Feb 19th 2010 10:51AM]

Oh this is old news. Look at this picture I took few weeks back :P. It is 512GB Kingston pendrive.

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c175/willstay/misc/Kingston512GB.jpg

[Luke291 Posted Mar 21st 2010 11:08AM]

256GB into something that small... Amazing.

Price is crazy though. Hopefully it will drop in price in a few months.