Kingstons Pricey 1 TB USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Imagine being able to save hundreds of movies, music, photos, documents, and almost everything off your computer and take them with you in your pocket. Well now you can if you got the dough to purchase Kingston's new 1 tb (yes 1 terabyte) 3.0 USB Flash Drive.

Kingston unveiled "the worlds largest capacity usb 3.0 flash drive" at CES. HyperX Predator 3.0 is Kingstons latest innovation and will be shipped out this year. The thumb drive has a 240 MB/s read and 160 MB/s write speed. The company also release a 512 gb version if you need less capacity. That one will cost you roughly $1,750, which means the 1 tb will most likey be over $2,500.


"Our new DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 allows users to store their entire digital world on a portable USB 3.0 Flash drive," Andrew Ewing, flash memory business manager at Kingston, said in a statement. "The large capacity and fast USB 3.0 transfer speeds allow users to save time as they can access, edit, and transfer applications or files such as HD movies directly from the drive without any performance lag."

The flash drives outer shell is made of a shock resistant zinc alloy for durability and has backwords compatibility for USB 2.0. The 1 tb HyperX Predator model is currently not available but will be sold early this year.


-Alex Pardo - GEEKSTRAPD Contributor