In January at CES 2017 the company introduced a series of flash drives Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT, which included a model with a record capacity of 2 TB. After nearly two months of portable USB-drives on sale, although afford to buy them can not everyone.

Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT is available in two versions - for 1 and 2 TB. The manufacturer calls the USB of the most capacious-flash drives in the world. According to the characteristics, provide storage of data reading speed of 300 MB / s and the recording rate to 200 MB / s, and the capacity of 2 TB medium to store at 70 hours in 4K format video.

It is obvious that such a USB-drive can not be packed in ordinary plastic case: Kingston uses a special high-strength alloy of zinc. "USB flash drive" comes with the classic USB-connector, but not USB-C. So the owners of the new MacBook Pro will have to get an adapter. At the same connector from USB drives 3. 1, which must provide high speed data communication with the computer.

Aggregators have dimensions 75.18 x 27 x 21.02 mm and operates at temperatures from -25 to +60 degrees, and support Windows 10, Windows 8 platform. 1, Windows 7 (SP1), macOS (version 10. x) and Linux (version 2. x), and Chrome OS.

USB-stick at the cost of 1 TB is $ 1319, while the 2TB model will cost $ 2273.

But while the company sells storage at a discount and can buy them for $ 942 and $ 1625 respectively,. For comparison, the price submitted in the autumn of 13-inch MacBook Pro laptop with a touch panel Touch Bar and SSD-drive with 256 GB is $ 1,800.

By the way, for a specified price buyers will not only stick, but also for her box, soft case and cable. Although the presence of these accessories can hardly justify the cost of storage in the eyes of the vast majority of users.