Kingston debuts two new DataTraveler USB flash drives

Kingston Technology, a company known for making memory and memory devices, has announced the release of two new DataTraveler USB flash memory devices known as Vault Privacy 3.0 and Vault Privacy 3.0 Anti-Virus. Both flash drives fully support USB 3.0.

There are not a lot of differences between the two Kingston products. They both measure 78 x 22 x 12 mm, support Read Only mode, password protection and a function that reformats the drive if it is a subject of forceful use. The Vault Privacy 3.0 supports 256-bit AES encryption, while the Vault Privacy 3.0 Anti-Virus comes with the ClevX DriveSecurity anti-virus program, itself a product of ESET.

The two flash drives offer capacities of 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB. Read speed reaches 80 MB/sec for the 4 GB model, 165 MB/sec for the 8 GB and 16 GB models and 250 MB/sec for the 32 GB and 64 GB models. Write speed reaches 12 MB/sec for the 4 GB model, 22 MB/sec for the 8 GB and 16 GB models, 40 MB/sec for the 32 GB model and 85 MB/sec for the 64 GB model.

Pricing is unknown.

Source: Kingston