Digital 32GB Data Traveler Micro Duo USB 3C Flash Drive (DTDUO3C/32GB)

Small and useful! pros: standard usb 2/3 connector + usb c connector. very versatile READ SPEED OS installs from this drive are wicked fast small: i have this attached to a lanyard and it is very small and light. great addition to my bag of tools accurate specifications: read/write is dead on as advertised. i used this in a heavy read environment and it works GREAT. i wish more companies truthfully advertised a device's capabilities. i know where to NOT use the drive. future proof and legacy happy: usb C will likely dominate all future devices. small and fast. cons: WRITE SPEED: good grief, it is exactly as advertised. SLOW. i have generic usb 2 drives with better write speeds. kudos for accurate specifications and no stars docked. see above don't use this for lots of writes. i pull the usb C cover everytime i remove the drive. once inserted into a standard usb 2/3 port, it is nearly impossible to remove without pulling the cover for the usb c port. seems pretty sturdy, but i have to push it back down after i pull it out. i tried removing the cover, but there is even less material to grab from the usb c port alone. other: i have 2 already. i will buy more as needed for boot disks and other heavy read conditions. this drive has no peer for OS installs at this price. 100+mb/s reads for such a cheap price.

I bought 2 of these a few months ago and have been very happy. Today, I came back to order 2 more and decided to leave a review while I'm at it. These are very inexpensive, very reliable, and, as other reviewers have mentioned, very *honest*. The write performance is not great, but they don't try to lie to you about it. But for the price they're unbeatable, and they work equally well with USB-C on my MacBook and USB-A 3 on my desktop PC. They are VERY small which can be both good and bad: they're easy to store, but also easy to lose. My only real complaint is that there's no good way to label them. They're so small that there's no real place to put a label, and since the cover is clear it's not easy to write on either. For the first two, I used a black marker to mark the inside of the plastic so I can tell the difference, but I really have no idea what I'm going to do for the next 2.

I tested the Read/Write speeds of this Kingston Data Traveler Micro Duo USB 3C Flash Drive (DTDUO3C/32GB ) on two different computers, using the benchmark program 'CrystalDiskMark 3.01 x64': - When plugged in to an USB 2.0 port: Sequential Read=34.5MB/s, Write=12.8MB/s - When plugged in to an USB 3.0 port: Read=122.5MB/s, Write=19.6MB/s (See my uploaded screenshot for details) The product description claims "100MB/s Read, 15MB/s Write". So my measured results are actually better than advertised. Just for reference, my SanDisk Ultra Fit Series USB 3.0 Flash Drive gives a more impressive performance. Its Sequential Read is similar at 148.4MB/s, while its Sequential Write is twice as fast at 39.4MB/s. But it is not a duo-port drive. On the other hand, my SanDisk Ultra Micro USB 2.0 OTG Flash Drive is a duo-port drive, and its performance is much worse: Read=20.7MB/s, Write=9.6MB/s. The Sony Microvault USB Flash Drive is slightly better with Read=23.4MB/s, Write=12.9MB/s [Bottom Line] Although the Write speed of this Data Traveler Micro Duo is not as good as that of the Sandisk Ultra Fit, it is actually better than advertised, and faster than my other dual-port drives. So I still consider it a good product at its present low price. [Other Remarks] - The smaller port of this drive is an USB Type-C port, not a micro-USB port. If you are looking for the latter, consider the Data Traveler Micro Duo USB 3.0 Micro USB OTG drive instead. - The clear plastic cover over the smaller port feels flimsy. It slides out every time I unplug the drive from my computer. I hope it does not break off too soon. - The capacity of this '32GB' drive, according to my computer, is only 28.8GB. Now I know all about the difference between what is called one Giga-Byte for computer people (2 to the power 30 bytes) and for marketing people (1 billion bytes). But the discrepancy is too large here, as 28.8*2^30 = 30.9 billion bytes only. The Sony 32GB Microvault USB Flash Drive , for example, shows up as 30.2GB on my computer.

Used this for loading the OS on systems and seems to work great. The 8GB dual DVD is now getting too small for some full distros and BD might cost too much for temp usage so 16 or 32GB is just about right. I'm not sure how many times I can make this a boot drive but have used it several times fixing some computers. ALSO since many new computers don't have a CD/DVD drive, you'll need something like this to reload a computer if you have to replace the drive. I haven't tried it on the Mac mini yet but I think it should work. I'll update if it doesn't work. YET I will say I try to avoid the SanDisk choices even though they can be cheaper and some software applications specifically state you shouldn't use SanDisk. I'm not sure what the exact reason why. But this is one of my first Kensington memory sticks as I've had to switch away from Lexar and I couldn't find something like this made by Samsung. Also this seemed to write with some good speed.

Excellent usb data traveler! I have used this for a few years now. Easy to use and versatile.

Smallest size I have seen for this so far. Works great. I use it in my car-car has usb-c

Schönes Teil: funktioniert einwandfrei, ist recht hat schnell, schön klein und lässt sich an neuen und alten Geräten problemlos verwenden. Mit der Tragschlaufe kann man es schön ans Schlüsselbund hängen.

Pequeño pero muy útil. Fácil de utilizar. Me ha gustado mucho.

Super schnelle Lieferung und super Verpackung! Der Stick soll als Musikmedium im PKW dienen. Daher schön klein und kompakt. So fällt der Stick in der Mittelkonsole nicht wirklich auf. Stick wurde von Windows direkt ohne Probleme erkannt. Formatiert auf NTFS und schon konnte es mit dem Kopieren los gehen. Super Geschwindigkeit auch bei Mehrfachkopiervorgängen keine Problem. Sehr zu empfehlen der Artikel.

Je l'ai depuis plusieurs mois maintenant et je suis très content de cet achat. Elle est petite avec une accroche fournie pour la mettre à un porte-clé, ce qui est super et elle propose l'USB C et l'USB "normal" avec de super débits.

Der Stick ist sehr kompakt, hat tolle Übertragungs- und Leseraten (ein Quantensprung wenn man von billigen Werbegeschenken mit USB 2 kommt), und ein gutes Design. Durch die doppelte Schnittstelle kann man ihn wirklich überall verwenden, was sehr praktisch ist. Ich konnte ihn problemlos mit meinem Desktop PC, Laptop, Fernseher und Smartphone verbinden. Lediglich die Blisterverpackung ist verbesserungswürdig, denn zum Öffnen wird eine Schere benötigt. Für 10€ erhält man hier wirklich ein tolles Produkt, das auf ganzer Linie überzeugen kann. Bei den Leistungsdaten nimmt er es durchaus mit viermal so teuren Geräten auf.