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Good news: you can pick up a 1TB USB-C flash drive for $80 (33% off)Bad news: this deal ends in six hours, which seems like a lot of pressure.
Bad news: this deal ends in six hours, which seems like a lot of pressure.
Kingston’s 1TB DataTraveler Max USB-C flash drive is an unusual beastie, matching NVMe-SSD-grade speeds with a slim, portable flash drive form factor. This drive is capable of reads up to 1000MB/s, putting it alongside some of thebest external SSDs, and it’s currently discounted at B&H Photo Video to $80 for a 1TB size - not bad!
Unfortunately this deal is only live for the next six hours, so I hope that you see this post in time!
Get the Kingston 1TB DataTraveler Max USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C Flash Drive
To make full use of the drive, you’ll need to use with a USB port that meets the “USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C” standard, which is a very fancy way of saying it has to be a 10Gbs port - fairly standard for motherboards and laptops made over the last few years.
There’s no information on the drive’s random speeds, which are a good indicator of game or OS load time performance, so I would guess that these would be worse than the physically larger external SSDs that we’ve actually tested mentioned above. That means I only feel confident recommending this a super-fast drive for archival and transport purposes, rather than a drive you can play games from directly (no doubt less demanding games would run from the DataTraveler Max without issue, but I’m not sure if that would extend to AAA games without testing it.)
