The design of the sticks like that. The black-red color combination and the somewhat angular forms give the Stick some gamers hardware appearance that also feels very stable.
In the present 16GB variant of the stick features upon insertion over 14.6 GB of storage. When measuring the transmission speeds resulted in my desktop PC and notebook follows (measured with AS SSD Benchmark):
USB 2.0: Reading 33.20 MB / s, write 28.77 MB / s
USB 3.0: Reading 145.61 MB / s, write 42.53 MB / s
Conclusion
At the rate of 14 (16 GB version) of Kingston HyperX is a good-quality, high-performance USB flash drive. I forgive 5 of 5 stars.