Kingston Technologies has unveiled its latest USB Flash Drive that comes from the company’s line of Data Traveller storage units, the Data Traveller GE9 comes in the storage capacities of 8GB and 16GB and also features an attractive 24-carat gold-plated bodies.
The drives are tested to provide up to 20 MB/s of transfer rates. The 16 GB variant was tested by Expreview to push bits around at 19.15 MB/s (sequential reads) and 5.14 MB/s (sequential writes).
Unfortunately, the 24ct Gold-Plated Data Traveller GE9 has an eye-catching exterior design but its not compatible with the USB 3.0 interface.
The 8 and 16 GB variants are priced at the equivalent of $8 and $14.