Kingston DataTraveler 5000

Kingston DataTraveler 5000

To ensure the drive and data remain intact even after being subjected to physical stresses Kingston has built the DataTraveler 5000 out of a titanium-coated stainless steel casing. The drive also boasts waterproof capabilities up to 1.2metres (four feet).In hand the drive feels substantial and the casing so strong that even when we tried desperately to bend it, it exhibited no flex whatsoever. We also dunked the drive into a mug of water and found it worked perfectly when we plugged it back into our test rig. The drive’s data encryption is easy-to-setup and took just a matter of seconds, so even novices will be able to secure their data. The drive employs 256-bit hardware-based AES encryption in XTS mode and also works with elliptic curve cryptography encryption algorithms (ECC), which meet the Suite B standards approved by the U.S. Government. Running the drive through our benchmarks it proved secure rather than speedy; the drive took 21- and 36-seconds to complete our 238MB read and write tests respectively. Kingston’s own DataTraveler 200 managed times of 10- and 16-seconds in the same test.