Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this... yeah, this is TechFlow!
It's been a while, hasn't it?
Right.
We've had some time off, wanted to rethink a few things.
We're back with an absolutely banging video, in my opinion anyway.
We've got some awesome products on the table.
Kingston reached out and they said: We want to sponsor an episode on TechFlow, send you
out a load of gear and, yes, all of this at the end, we're doing a giveaway.
Don't skip it though.
Don't skip it.
We've got some cool stuff to talk about.
But there's a giveaway at the end so stay tuned for that.
Kingston have invented a way, somehow, to make USB, more specifically, USB storage,
interesting.
Let's take a look.
So, on my desk here, I've got my baby which is my MacBook.
And I love it to pieces.
The one thing that I don't like about it, though, is we don't have a normal USB port.
We've got four USB type C ports which I have grown to... accept.
I am used to using this machine now.
I've got numerous of these dongles in all of my bags.
In my bed-side table, in my cutlery draw downstairs - you never know when you're going
to need to whack one of these out because everything is still, you know, normal USB
including most USB storage nowadays.
I've got two examples of two memory sticks here.
Err, as you can see, normal USB and normal USB.
And if I've, if I'm, if I'm wanting to use, you know, any normal laptop or computer, nine times
out of ten I've got an access.
I've got access to a normal USB port, you know, to plug, to plug in some external storage, like that.
I want to take some files off this laptop and put them on here but I can't, right, so I have
to whack out this dongle, plug this in to here and it's just a faff and then that's
got to go in to there and, then, who wants that hanging about?
So, Kingston invented this little, unique piece of hardware.
Now this, this is mental.
This is the DataTraveler microDuo 3C.
Yes a mouthful.
But this thing - it's tiny - has got a lot of features.
In fact it's got more features than this big memory card and this big memory card, right.
Let's go over them.
So, for a start, this is 128 gigabytes capacity.
128 gigabytes in capacity.
Now, I've got a bunch of 16 gigabyte ones here that we're going to be giving away at
the end of this video, but, again, they're all the same thing except the capacity changes.
16 gigabytes - this one's 128.
OK, so, Alex - why is it different other than it being super small, which, yeah, is awesome,
and, well, 120 gigs in a small size - what, what, what are you getting at, right?
Well, my friends.
Take a look at this magic.
USB type C and normal USB.
I can finally, right, plug this in to my laptop, offload... Well, I may as well do it live.
Yeah, I'm going to drag a folder...
I'm going to drag something off here.
So, I've got a file here which is an old vlog.
I'm going to name it "test" for this example.
Drag it on to my 128 data traveller.
File size of 1 gig copying in less than a minute on to this tiny thing.
So, I'm going to safely eject this little memory card.
There we go.
Take it out and then straight away, without hesitation, I'm going to plop this bad boy
in to this, in to this computer right here and I'm going to open this bad boy up.
And, as you can see, instantaneously, it's popped up with my footage.
There we go.
There's yesterday's vlog and I can skip through it in 4K, playing off of this and I can obviously,
if I want to, go ahead and just drag it on to the desktop and copy it over.
This, this is a life saver for anybody that has anything USB C like the new MacBook or
even, even, you know... A phone.
Right - taking 4K footage off your phone.
These phones nowadays record in 4K.
We don't want to WiFi transfer this stuff - it's going to take hours.
Straight on to here. Boom.
Straight in to here.
Or, in to here.
It's just a no-brainer.
It's the future.
It honestly is.
Maybe I think that this is really good because I own a laptop that has, you know,
only USB C. But, the thing is, all laptops are going to be like this soon because they're
going to get thinner and there isn't going to be any space for something that big.
But, then again, there's obviously older, big computers out there that are still going to have this,
so, right now, in the year of 2017, and 2018 and 2019, this is the memory stick that you
want to be buying, right.
And we've got some of them to give away here so stay tuned.
So, this has been the DataTraveler microDuo 3C, right.
Amazing.
We've got one more thing to talk about, though.
I need a - how can I demonstrate this?
I need a gaming laptop.
There we go - a gaming laptop, right.
This is going to demonstrate exactly what I want to say.
I need the, I need the new Kingston, the new Kingston card.
Wait - where is it?
Where is it?
Ah.
Yes - there we go.
The ultimate GT.
This, this is mental.
Let me explain.
So, so inside this box right here, right.
What looks like, you know, what looks like your, your normal, your normal memory stick...
...But, obviously, you've tipped it off.
It comes in a metal case, right.
This is some serious stuff we're talking about here.
So, in your case, you get this, well, rather large looking memory card.
But when I tell you that this thing has 1 terabyte of storage on it, you're not thinking
it's large anymore, are you?
Even in its metal housing, it comes with a carry case and a USB 3 extension cable so
it can act like a portable hard drive.
This, this is mental.
We're talking 300 read and 200 write.
Look - it says it on the tin can.
300 read, 200 write.
How can I demonstrate that, I thought to myself?
Well, let's do your standard file transfer.
Plug this bad boy in to the laptop, like a memory stick.
Look at it.
1 terabyte - it's flashing away.
I've got some client work right here.
That is 65 gigabytes in size, right.
I'm going to drag this over here, right, to the memory stick and then we're going to see
right here.
160 meg a second that peaked at then.
It's going to take 6 minutes to copy 60 gig, right.
That's mental.
And then I sat there thinking to myself: That's really boring.
All I've done is demonstrated that this thing, it's fast.
How can I make this a bit more fun?
Well, Kingston have created an awesome product here that is, well, 1 terabyte in size, right.
It's also rapid, right.
That rapid that I'm pretty sure I can play GTA off this thing.
So, yesterday, I went ahead and installed my full Steam library of games on here, right.
This has got about seven games on it.
One of those is GTA which I'm going to use for this example and I'm going to plug it
in with the cable just so show you guys that it's plugged in with the cable.
Is it working? Is it working?
It was working yesterday.
I got past this screen yesterday and I was able to play...
As you can see, wait, it's flashing away, it's flashing away. I'm not going to move it. We're flashing.
Playing off there.
There we go.
Look at that.
I'm playing GTA, right now, and it's not lagging or anything and I'm running around - this
is GTA and it's, it's playing off this.
There we go.
Check that out.
It's actually working.
I can't believe that I've got this to work.
Ha.
There you go.
If that doesn't demonstrate that you can actually play games off of this thing, that's mad.
I just thought that that would be a fun, little test to do.
So, Kingston said that they wanted to sponsor a video.
I went on their website and I chose the things that I thought you guys would find the most
interesting to talk about.
So, this is been the DataTraveler Ultimate GT 1 terabyte, 1 terabyte memory stick.
Err, memory, memory stick.
1 terabyte - that still blows my mind.
And then this, this tiny little thing is, is this.
This is, this is the DataTraveler microDuo 3C.
Duo meaning that it has a USB and USB type C...
This blows my mind too.
This is the stuff of the future.
Amazing.
We're giving away ten of these so click the link in the description if you want to enter
that and you want one of these things.
All 16 gigabytes.
Guys...
Thank you Kingston for sponsoring this episode.
It's been really fun to check this stuff out and it's been really mind blowing and mind
opening that this is the way that stuff is going.
My name's been Alex, this has been TechFlow and we'll catch you in the next one.