Kingston DataTraveler Max USB 3.2 Gen 2 Flash Drive 1 TB DTMAX/1 TB, black, DTMAX/1TB

Stopped working!
Just stopped working after awhile, it wasn’t used a lot and it was plugged in less than 20 times just for backup. No it’s not even detected as a device.

Terrible for macbooks
It will block the only other usb c port that a MacBook air has

Working faster and better as mentioned
Reading speed and writing speed.works as mentioned in the specifications. I am happy that I chose this flash drive.

Your mileage may vary, but initial testing has gone very well in my niche application. I have a 2017 MacBook Pro (i5-7267U/8 GB RAM, four Thunderbolt 3 ports only) running Windows 10, and I am out of drive space, but I need to install some large software to take on the road with me. I was going to buy an external m.2 chassis, but I thought I would give this drive a try, instead, since it is about 1/3rd the price of what it would cost me to buy an external m.2 chassis, m.2 drive, and Thunderbolt 3 cable. It’s also a small fraction of the size and weight.The software in question is already running on my 2022 desktop PC (Z690/i5-12600K/32 GB DDR5/Samsung 980PRO m.2 boot drive, Windows 11) from a 10 years old Kingston 240 GB SSDNow V300 SATA SSD that was pulled from my old Dell laptop. I ran CrystalDiskMark on the old drive in the new PC, because the software runs fine at that speed.The Kingston DataTraveler Max 256 GB is giving me about twice the speed in sequential read/write and about half the speed in random read/write. The SATA drive is NTFS, and the USB drive is exFAT, but that probably doesn’t matter. As you can see from the CrystalDiskMark screenshot, I am pulling the advertised 1000 MB/s even from this relatively ancient and obsolete MacBook Pro, so it definitely works fine on a Thunderbolt 3 port using Apple’s Boot Camp Windows drivers. I did not include a screenshot of the old drive’s results, so as not to confuse people.This is probably going to be fine, but I am installing the software right now to see how well it actually runs on the MacBook Pro, running from the USB-C stick. It will take hours to install, since the developer specifies 140 GB of drive space, and my WiFi is only pulling about 100 Mb/s. If the software doesn’t run very well, it will likely be more to do with the difference in memory, CPU, and GPU between the two machines, not the drive speed.Although Kingston is not the only brand of memory and storage I trust, I have relied on Kingston products for decades, and this product gives me every reason to extend that trust. The DDR5 RAM in my desktop PC is also Kingston.

I’m using this to store ML models and datasets ranging from 200mb to 80gb, and so far it’s been the best of the solutions I’ve tried for external storage given its performance and portability. Worked on MacOS, Linux (I use Arch, btw), and Windows 11 with no issues noticed.