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Kingston 256GB Flash Drive Sold Anywhere but USA

  July 20th, 2009



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Kingston 256GB Flash Drive Sold Anywhere but USA

Could this be another small evidence that a shift in purchasing power from USA to the rest of the world is underway? Kingston has decided to introduce its outrageously expensive Data Traveler DT300 256GB flash drive in almost every part of the world except America. Then again, who in the right mind would want to drop $800 for a thumbdrive that can only transfer at a pitiful 20MB/s. If we were to spend this much on storage, a real SSD with dual SATA and USB makes much more sense, not to mention more flexible.

For those who aren't too good in math, Kingston's DT300 256GB flash drive is twice the capacity of its DT200 128GB announced last month and eight times the size of the DT150 32GB thumbdrive reviewed last year. In term of cost per gigabyte, however, the DT300 is about $3.1 which is par with a solid state drive of the same capacity. The Kingston 256GB drive definitely has a market, until SuperSpeed USB comes along and more capable flash controller is able to boost transfer rate beyond 200MB/s.

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