The Kingston DT SE9 16GB, and coming here in the photos not over, a really tiny USB stick. It is about 3.5 cm long, 1 cm wide and 0.3 cm thick. He can perfectly take on a key ring - it has practically the same right eye. The outer shell is made of lightweight aluminum and is therefore unbreakable, the stick should therefore anything happen in your pocket or when accidentally dropped. On the front side (on the left) he has an opening in which the contacts are. Selbige are therefore protected and can not wear, but may get dusty, especially when you carry the stick in your pocket. Therefore, possibly by blow shortly before plugging, but not really a problem. The contacts are not as extended immersion in corners or the like but the whole stick is pushed to the Stinseite into the USB port. The external dimensions of the stick therefore correspond to the external dimensions of a USB connector. That's incredibly convenient, because it is then no sliding mechanism can break and the stick is ready for use immediately, but the contacts are protected.
The Stick comes in the delivery state with FAT32 than one partition formatted and thankfully without dubious software offerings. I formatted the drive to NTFS and then measured the following speeds:
each using dd identified with a block size of 4KB: Write: 4.5 megabytes / second (so it lasts 57 Minutes, the stick to write full) Read: 17.4 megabytes / second (so it takes 15 minutes, completely read the stick)
The stick is likely to be faster and I would like to pay 10 more for a 4x so fast USB3 version, but unfortunately is the part of Kingston not offer - and would probably cost more than 10 additional charge. That leaves only the hope for the future - for the present and the USB2.0 Stick, however, lies in the middle, so the speed is not even cry. However, I prefer - in particular because of the slow write performance (USB2 are after all at least ~ 20 MB / s ago) from a star.
