DataTraveler
Updated: October 24, 2010
(The next generations have been released.
See DataTraveler G3, 100 G2 and 101 G2.)
Today we will start a series on Kingston flash drives and its trademark model, the DataTraveler. It has definitely placed its mark on the market, maybe even put it there. Now with the release of the world’s first 128GB Flash Drive as well as 256GB, Kingston has also gone into the business of rattling it.
The DataTraveler is often abbreviated as the DT, which I testify is pure coincidence. Nonetheless I feel honored and starting with today’s post, I will try to pay back some respect. 
Let our journey of Kingston DataTraveler begin…
DataTraveler G1
DataTraveler G2
DataTraveler G3
DataTraveler 100
DataTraveler 100 G2
DataTraveler 101
DataTraveler 101G2
DataTraveler 102
DataTraveler 110
DataTraveler 120
DataTraveler 150
DataTraveler (Generation 1)
Have a Fit: DataTraveler Flash Drive (@ 
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Details:
- White plastic body with different colored labels
- Cap fits on grommet (ideal during use)
- 512MB (blue), 1GB (brown), 2GB (green),
- 4GB (purple), 8GB (black), 16GB (red), 32GB (orange)
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0
- Green LED (on Kingston logo)
- Customizable (Co-Logo Program)
- No ReadyBoost, but Vista compatible
- Length x width x height: 2.64″ x 0.80″ x 0.35″
- (66.9mm x 20.4mm x 9.0mm)
- Weight: 0.4 oz
- Warranty: 5 years
- Data retention: 10 years
DataTraveler G2 (Generation 2)
Have a Retraction: Kingston DataTraveler G2 (@ )
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Details:
- White plastic body with different colored labels
- Retractable USB Connector
- 2GB (gray), 4GB (yellow), 8GB (cyan), 16GB (red), 32GB (green)
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0
- Green LED (on Kingston logo)
- Keychain ring
- Customizable (Co-Logo Program)
- No ReadyBoost, but Vista compatible
- Length x width x height: 2.30″ x 0.93″ x 0.35″
- (58.3mm x 23.6mm x 9.0mm)
- Weight: 0.4 oz
- Warranty: 5 years
- Data retention: 10 years
DataTraveler G3 (Generation 3)
Matured Fit: Kingston DataTraveler G3 (@ ) or ()
Details:
- White plastic body with different colored rims
- Cap fits on grommet (ideal during use)
- 2GB (orange), 4GB (gray),
- 8GB (yellow), 16GB (blue), 32GB (red)
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0
- LED (on Kingston logo)
- Keychain ring
- Customizable (Co-Logo Program)
- No ReadyBoost support
- Length x width x height: 2.59″ x 0.88″ x 0.42″
- (65.68mm x 22.37mm x 10.66mm)
- Weight: 0.4 oz
- Warranty: 5 years
- Data retention: 10 years
DataTraveler 100
Maximum per-cent: Kingston DataTraveler 100 (@ 
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Details:
- Black plastic body
- Also available in transparent blue or red (rare)
- retractable USB Connector
- 1 – 32GB
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0
- Green LED (on Kingston logo)
- Keychain ring
- No ReadyBoost, but Vista compatible
- Length x width x height: 2.35″ x 0.88″ x 0.37″
- (59.7mm x 22.3mm x 9.5mm)
- Weight: 0.48 oz
- Warranty: 5 years
- Data retention: 10 years
DataTraveler 100 G2
Reincarnated Max: Kingston DataTraveler 100 G2 (@ )
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Details:
- Black plastic body
- Concealable USB connector
- 4 – 32GB
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0
- Keychain ring
- No ReadyBoost, but Vista & W7 compatible
- Length x width x height: 2.74″ x 0.88″ x 0.50″
- (69.62mm x 22.44mm x 12.76mm)
- Weight: ? oz
- Warranty: 5 years
- Data retention: 10 years
DataTraveler 101
Flash Drive Basics: Kingston DataTraveler 101 (@ )
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Details:
- Transparent plastic body
- Available in 3 colors: yellow, pink, cyan
- Older edition had blue, purple and brown
- There’s also a limited Chinese year of the rat edition (in red)
- Swivel-protected USB connector
- 1 – 16GB
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0
- Green LED
- Keychain hole (on swivel)
- Customizable (Co-Logo Program)
- No ReadyBoost, but Vista compatible
- Length x width x height: 2.10″ x 0.83″ x 0.41″
- (53.40mm x 21.0mm x 10.50mm)
- Weight: 0.42 oz
- Warranty: 5 years
- Data retention: 10 years
DataTraveler 101 G2 (Generation 2)
Ramping up the Basics: Kingston DataTraveler 101G2 (@ ) or ()
Details:
- Grooved transparent plastic body
- Available in 5 colors: lime (2GB), cyan (4GB),
- red (8GB), black (16GB), purple (32GB)
- Swivel-protected USB connector
- 2 – 32GB
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0
- urDrive software:
- desktop & explorer like interface,
- built in web browser,
- capacity tracker,
- built in photo viewer (with slideshow),
- built in mp3 player (with playlist),
- urAppZone for accessing more software & games,
- free 2GB online backup account.
- No ReadyBoost support
- Keychain hole (on swivel)
- Customizable (Co-Logo Program)
- Length x width x height: 22.25″ x 0.68″ x 0.39″
- (57.18mm x 17.28mm x 10mm)
- Weight: 0.42 oz
- Warranty: 5 years
- Data retention: 10 years
DataTraveler 102
See-Through Pack: Kingston DataTraveler 102 (@ )
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Details:
- Different colored plastic body in transparent casing
- Black cap
- 4GB (neon yellow), 8GB (blue),
- 16GB (white), 32GB (black)
- Write: up to 10 MB/s, Read: up to 10 MB/s
- LED
- Keychain hole
- No ReadyBoost, but Vista compatible
- Length x width x height: 2.19″ x 0.82″ x 0.45″
- (55.62mm x 20.82mm x 11.43mm)
- Weight: ?
- Warranty: 5 years
- Data retention: 10 years
DataTraveler 110
Extra Percent for Shape: Kingston DataTraveler 110 (@ )
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Details:
- Transparent plastic body
- Retractable USB connector (via grey sliding button)
- 1GB (purple), 2GB (blue),
- 4GB (red), 8GB (green)
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0
- LED
- Keychain hole
- No ReadyBoost, but Vista compatible
- Length x width x height: 2.142″ x 0.836″ x 0.512″
- (54.41mm x 21.24mm x 13.00mm)
- Weight: 0.42 oz
- Warranty: 5 years
- Data retention: 10 years
DataTraveler 120
120 straight: Kingston DataTraveler 120 (@ ) or ()
Details:
- White or colored plastic body with different colored labels
- Retractable USB connector (via grey sliding button)
- 4GB (green), 8GB (orange),
- 16GB (blue), 32GB (gray)
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0
- LED
- Keychain hole
- No ReadyBoost, but Vista compatible
- Customizable (Co-Logo Program)
- Length x width x height: 2.31″ x 0.93″ x 0.37″
- (58.8mm x 23.6mm x 9.5mm)
- Weight: ?
- Warranty: 5 years
- Data retention: 10 years
DataTraveler 150
Honey, I shrunk the Bits: Kingston DataTraveler 150 (@ )
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Details:
- Rugged plastic body with honeycomb pattern
- Cap fits on grommet (ideal during use)
- 32GB (Orange), 64GB (Red)
- 20MB/s read, 10MB/s write
- Blue LED (rear)
- Keychain hole
- No ReadyBoost, but Vista compatible
- Length x width x height: 3.06″ x 0.9″ x 0.47″
- (77.9 mm x 22 mm x 12.05 mm)
- Weight: 0.5 oz
- Warranty: 5 years
- Data retention: 10 years
In our second part of Kingston flash drives we will focus more on security, extreme capacity and heavy duty performance.
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Click here to find more Kingston DataTraveler 100-150
More Kingston flash drives:
DataTraveler Ultimate – DT 200 – 5000 – DataTraveler Mini
Check other flash drive brands:
Corsair - Centon - EDGE - HP - Imation - Kanguru
IronKey – LaCie – Lexar – Memorex - Newsmy - OCZ - Patriot
PNY – PQI – SanDisk Flash Drive – Sony – Super Talent
Toshiba – Transcend – Verbatim – Other/Generic
April 19th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
is there a black DataTraveler 102 flash memory 16 gigabyte ??
April 20th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Tom, the black Kingston DataTraveler 102 has 32GB. Check here:
32GB Kingston DT 102
The 16GB is the white model. (See my details for the DT 102 above)
May 20th, 2010 at 4:18 am
hello, I’m using this brand of USBs, but I like are the mini to be practical and fun addition to your design, should return to market, if so buy it.
August 28th, 2010 at 2:39 am
There are now flash drives with more memory than my first computer a little over a decade ago! Hard to believe…
.-= Evan´s last blog post ..How to put Itunes on flash drive =-.
September 7th, 2010 at 1:06 am
I still remember my 4GB Pentium, lol.
October 2nd, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Do yu have bulk order for kingston 32gig datatraveler 101 and 150. Can you give me a quote for Texas US.
Thanks
Maz
October 3rd, 2010 at 3:18 am
Maz,
since I dont sell these myself check out Kingston USB Bulk Listings. Thanks!
October 14th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
I have seen a very small error in this part. I have the DT100 (G1) and it doesn’t have a green LED like what it is stated above. But this is still the best site for flash drives. Looking Forward to more posts.
October 15th, 2010 at 2:51 am
Thanks for the compliment, Jasper. Sorry about the error – can you please tell us what the color of the LED is then? Thanks.
October 15th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Wow thats a lot of memory for good price. I should have looked into buying these awhile back.
October 17th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Sorry for the late reply.
The DT100(G1) doesn’t have any light indicator.
October 18th, 2010 at 3:01 am
Thanks, Jasper. I could have sworn that one of the net reviews mentioned an LED light. Do you know if the DataTraveler 100 G2 has one? I’m working on adding that one (thanks to your comment
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October 19th, 2010 at 5:08 am
Sorry, I don’t have the G2 of DT100
I see you’re a Flash Drive enthusiast. I think we are very similar. I used to collect different flash drives.
October 22nd, 2010 at 3:01 am
DT, sorry for my mistake earlier.
Earlier, I copied a big amount of data to my DT100 and I found out that it has a green light. Like you have written, it’s in the Kingston logo.
Sorry for that because this is my first time to send a file to my DT100. Please do note that it only lights up when there’s an activity. Like read&write.
More Power.
October 25th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Well, thanks for the clarification. You kinda had me on my toes there.
Question is if the new DT100 has a green LED as well. I assume it does since it still has the Kingston logo. Maybe one of my readers can let me know?
October 26th, 2010 at 3:02 am
I’ll help you when I already bought one. I live in Philippines so I can’t buy the latest products on time.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:30 am
Wow thats a lot of memory for good price. I should have looked into buying these awhile back.
December 30th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
The G 1 8 G DT does work in Readyboost in Win7
February 4th, 2011 at 6:38 pm
I like the DataTraveler 120 series so much I have the 4, 8 and 16GB models. A word of caution tho, I have been trying to complete the series with the purchase of the 32GB model. I have bought 3 of them off eBay and each was a counterfeit. The Chinese are producing counterfeit drives so you have to be careful. Make sure your Kingston flash drive has a laser etched serial number on the USB plug, that is how to tell if it is genuine or not.
February 7th, 2011 at 11:49 pm
Hello Frisco,
thanks for the words of caution! I talk about counterfeits in my 128GB post. As for the DT 120 with colored bodies, there seems to be NO 32GB. Only the white body models as shown in this post include a 32GB capacity.
August 12th, 2011 at 3:00 am
I have an old 2GB Kingston and I love the LED. I bought a HP with no LED and I missed it so much. But Kingston doesn’t even mention the LEDs on their website. Thanks for including that information for people like me. Just ordered a 16GB G3.
September 18th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Can someone plzzzz tell me of the dt 101 g2 has a light indicator?????
September 27th, 2011 at 7:11 pm
I have two of the 8GB G3 flash drives and they’re great. They go on sale at Buy.com regularly for around 9 bucks with free shipping, though I have heard that some of the office supply stores also sell them for about that price, too.
Amazing, when I think back on the first WIn95 computer I bought about 17 yrs ago. It was considered state-of-the-art with a HUGE memory ….. a whole GIGABYTE !! Of course after a few years I was running short of memory and had to start sticking photos on floppies … which by now naturally are dead as a doornail & the data seems to be unretrievable.
Truly amazing how much memory you can buy cheap now. I now stick all my photo files on am 8GB Data Traveler, and just update it every month or so. I also back up my other files with another Data Traveler, so the next time my computer self-destructs, Kingston will truly save my ass by saving my data.
December 21st, 2011 at 11:02 am
I have several DT101 G2 16GB sticks and some has lights in it and the latest ones not.
Very strange…..a light in the USB stick is definite appreciated….maybe saving costs ???
January 16th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Hi all,
I have a Kingston datatraveler 1b USB, It is dead but i want to know how can you get the data off the dead usb, Because i need the data ASAP for school, Thanks
January 19th, 2012 at 9:24 am
I have bought 3 of them off eBay and each was a counterfeit. The Chinese are producing counterfeit drives so you have to be careful. Make sure your Kingston flash drive has a laser etched serial number on the USB plug, that is how to tell if it is genuine or not.
February 4th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Jason, are you sure its dead? Have you tried plugging it into other computers? If its really dead then I dont know how one could retrieve the data. There may be software out there that could help with data recovery – google “flash drive data recovery”. Good luck!
April 15th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
I have DT101 G2 16GB sticks it can’t be format nor transfer files…(write protected) just ask how can unlock or format?
June 3rd, 2012 at 10:44 pm
The write protection is either manual (a small switch) or a software feature of the stick. See if you can right click on the USB drive icon and find a write protection option.
July 5th, 2014 at 5:53 am
Cannot mount at android phone, help me
October 24th, 2014 at 2:25 am
I’ve bought two of the swivel DT101 drives (16 and 32) recently, and they do not have LEDs. Earlier versions definitely did. I opened up the new ones, and they both have locations on the circuit boards where an LED should go. I’m tempted to try to solder an LED in there, but it’s a very tight space and an awfully tiny surface mount LED. Also, I wonder if there was some valid technical reason for leaving out the LED. FWIW, these were all purchased from a local big box store over the years, so they’re genuine.
When it comes to mounting thumbdrives on Android phones and tablets, you may have to obtain a special “OTG” (On The Go) cable. Also, some Android things have to be rooted to support OTG, and/or you may need a powered hub (or split the cable and feed in power some other way) because some devices don’t supply power to the OTG cable.
July 9th, 2015 at 8:10 am
Is Kingston DataTraveler 101 G2 32GB pen drive has a LED indicator?
April 5th, 2017 at 7:01 pm
I have three gen 1 which are 128mb, white with green writing. Anyone got a use for them? Used when working on a roll-out for national travel agents. Just thought, maybe able to use them to take control of computer and then run a virus/malware check rather than through Windows.