Kingston DataTraveler 310 Flash Drive [Thumb Drive Offers 256GB of Storage, $1000+ Price Tag, Safety Features]

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If you need to move a lot of files with reasonable portability, then the storage gurus at Kingston have got you covered with their new DataTraveler 310 flash drive which offers a whopping 256 GB of storage. It’s obviously one of the biggest commercially available flash drives out there currently.

There isn’t really anything special to say about the DataTraveler… it’s a flash drive, albeit, one with a huge storage capacity. It’s compatible with almost any OS you could want, including all versions of Windows newer than Windows 2000, versions of Mac OS X newer than Panther, and any Linux OS that uses any kernel later than v2.6.

Oh yeah, it even supports ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost is the feature that’s included with Windows Vista and 7 that lets you use flash mass storage devices for disk cache. 256GB is the maximum amount of storage that ReadyBoost can use and apparently, you can plug the DataTraveler 310 into your Windows 7 PC for a little boost of 256GB of Page Cache.

There’s just a little catch, Kingston is selling the DataTraveler 310 at enormous cost. It’s set to retail for $1,108. New sizes of flash drives are always pricey, though, just imagine what a 1GB flash drive would of cost in the year 2000. So, unfortunately due to the cost, the DataTraveler 310 will only be used by people who really need portable 256GB memory, for now.