trstttePlastic housing so likely to overheat itself to death like most other cheap USB drives, no thanks

Chrispy_Why can't kingston make a decent small USB drive? This is trash because it's WAAAAAY too big to be hanging off a USB port, especially the previous USB-C one, and it's WAAAAAY too big to put on a keyring. Plastic, too - so not particularly durable given the size and fragility of lead-free solder, which is all it's hanging off thanks the the plastic being merely a cosmetic cover rather than a structural part of the USB connector. On a keyring it would get smashed to pieces within a month of just being in a pocket between keys.

I use Kingston DT SE9 and DT Micro because they're cheap, durable, tiny, and fit on a keyring where you might actually have it with you when you need it, but they're both godawful for write speed at 14MB/s and 20MB/s respectively.

It's not impossible to make tiny, durable, capless, keyring-friendly flash drives with order-of-magnitude better performance because Sandisk, Transcend, Samsung etc are all capable of doing so. What's Kingston's problem, eh?



Maybe I'm weird in not liking large flash drives that you can't carry around all the time, but even in this group of drives above, Kingston's need to up their game here though because the competition at very similar prices are literally 5-10x faster. Do you want to wait nearly four minutes for a file copy that would be done in 20-30 seconds on any other competing product? As a one-off it's no big deal, but when you start to use it regularly you realise you bought the wrong product.

Chrispy_Maybe I'm weird in not liking large flash drives that you can't carry around all the time, but even in this group of drives above, Kingston's need to up their game here though because the competition at very similar prices are literally 5-10x faster. Do you want to wait nearly four minutes for a file copy that would be done in 20-30 seconds on any other competing product? As a one-off it's no big deal, but when you start to use it regularly you realise you bought the wrong product.

thewanDo you have a review or comparison to back up you claims? based on my own experience with sandisks range of tiny flash drive over the years, they have the same terrible max out a 20mbps write speeds. Unless of course you are talking about maybe 256gb or 512gb ones which are probably faster than the mainstream 128gb thats more widely available, but those are ungodly expensive.

bugI'm going to go against what was written before and say performance is more important than size. 1-2GB you can easily put on Google Drive or something. But if you routinely move bigger files, you need to be able to transfer them in under half an hour.

Chrispy_If performance is what you want then this is a dumpster fire of a failure.

3 of the first 4 reviews for this drive are claiming Kingston lie about their write speeds. I can back that up with my own experience of Kingston write speeds being falsely advertised.
www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-DataTraveler-Max-Flash-Drive/dp/B09DVQ32XQ

375MB/s when sold as 900MB/s is bad, but if size is not really the issue there are slightly larger "proper" SSDs for similar or even cheaper that are genuinely capable of saturating the 10GB/s USB interface in both directions. Samsung T7 is almost 3x faster for the same price as this Kinston DT Max, Crucial X8 is at least twice the speed for about 30% less than this DT Max. Should you have access to a Thunderbolt3 port, Sabrent's £80 TB3 enclosure will let you put in any NVMe drive and a £65 SN570 will give you 2700MB/s in and out for fractionally more money than the DT Max linked above.

Perhaps those customer CDM screenshots are fake, but CDM is child's play to run and much harder to fake - plus why would buyers lie about it? They're simply disappointed and upset that they've been lied to by Kingston.