Jump Drive 63

This is a nicely made flash drive with plenty of room for lots of big files. And, it is a good value for the money KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY compared to other 16 GB flash drives. Also, I like the retractable USB connector - it slides in and out easily via a little tab on the side. And, once extracted, a little indent clicks in so that the connector will not be forced into the drive when the drive is inserted into a USB KINGSTON FLASH MEMORA port.

On the negative side, it doesn't have an LED indicating read/write access. This is a minor issue to me, but thought it deserved mention. Another con, however, might be a bit more of an issue for some people. This flash drive is a bit slow compared to two others I have. I ran some simple benchmarks, copying files to this drive KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY as well as two others: a 2 GB "no name" flash drive (drive "A" in the results below) I got for free at a computer store as a promo about a year ago, and a Lexar 256 MB drive (drive "B" below) that is a least two years old. I copied two sets of files as detailed below & timed the results with a stop watch. No other folders / files were on the drives when I copied the files. I conducted the tests twice on each drive - the times given are an average. (I did not conduct any read tests, just these write tests

File set "1": 2 folders, 1 containing 192 files / 20 MB, the other 72 files / 8.63 MB File set "2": 1 folder, containing 23 sub-folders w/ 495 files / 31.7 MB KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY.

And, the test results: Drive "A" (No Name, 2 GB) File set "1": 18 sec. File set "2": 27 sec. Drive "B" (Lexar, 256 MB) File set "1": 26 sec. File set "2": 50 sec. This Kingston 16 GB drive File set "1": 30 sec. File set "2": 75 sec. KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY

As the results of this admittedly fairly unscientific test show, this drive was the slowest of the bunch - almost twice as slow as the 2 GB drive for file set "1", and over twice as slow as the 256 MB drive on file set"2". So, if speed is an issue for you, you may want to look elsewhere (and perhaps spend more money KINGSTON FLASH MEMORA as a result). But, since I needed space over speed, and I wanted to spend as little as possible, I still gave this flash drive 4 stars.