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Kingston
Is Kingston worth buying?
Kingston earned a buy verdict on 1 of the 3 Kingston products we compared (33%), well below the 50% average across every brand on the site. 1 of them won its comparison outright: Kingston DataTraveler Max (USB-A). We would skip 2: Kingston Canvas Select Plus microSD (UHS-I, A1) and Kingston DataTraveler Exodia Onyx.
Verdicts synthesize independent testing and long-term owner reports; we do not run a lab and never take review units. Each product below links to the comparison it was judged in. How we review.
Buy it 1 product
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The Best USB Flash Drives: 4 Compared (and One to Skip) · Tech & Gadgets
Kingston DataTraveler Max (USB-A)Won the comparison
A pocketable flash drive aimed at portable-SSD-like speed.
Best for: Power users who regularly move large files and want the fastest real flash drive.
$$$ · premium
Skip it 2 products
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The Best microSD Cards: 4 Compared (and One to Skip) · Tech & Gadgets
Kingston Canvas Select Plus microSD (UHS-I, A1)
A cheap, reliable card for basic storage that falls short for serious video or app-heavy workloads.
Why we skip it: Only A1-rated random performance, so apps and small-file work feel slower than A2 rivals
$ · budget
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The Best USB Flash Drives: 4 Compared (and One to Skip) · Tech & Gadgets
Kingston DataTraveler Exodia Onyx
Cheap and widely stocked, but the slow writes show why it's cheap.
Why we skip it: Write speeds are slow enough that copying large folders is tedious
$ · budget
Kingston in our categories: Tech & Gadgets (3)