Kingston Data Traveler Locker + G3 (DTLPG3/16GB) USB 3.0 Personal Data Protection with Automatic Cloud Backup, Silver

This is an absolute gem. Strong, sturdy, good looking and easy to set up.It allows you to protect information on your USB from prying eyes. Takes no more that a few minutes to set up. I like the way you can have a password from 6 characters to 16 using their criteria of upper case/lower case/numerals and symbols. All these elements must be used in the password.thus making it very powerful protection for your sensitive information. You can use a hint as well as contact information, which you can change or delete at any time. I'm using Windows 10 and haven't encountered any problems. Kingston have always had a good name, and this quality product is no exception. Had it for a while now...just love it. Highly recommended.

First impression was that this was HEAVY compared to your average flash drive - solidly constructed in aluminium, it looked - and felt - an impressive piece of kit. Happy to say that it was simple to use - it is partitioned as two drives ( appears as a DVD drive) one containing the easy to follow encryption software (and a manual), and the other space for the files that you upload. There is also the option to back up your data to the cloud should you so desire. So far I've been very happy with the DataTraveler Locker- meets my needs to encrypt my files as required under the Data Protection Act.

Solid construction. Built of sturdy materials and clearly a premium product. The encryption works in a bit of a strange way: when plugging in the USB, it first mounts drive that Windows 10 recognises as a DVD-R/RW drive. Auto-launch did not immediately launch the authentication application. I had to navigate to the drive and click on the authentication application and set up my password. Once that was done a second USB-drive gets mounted which is the encrypted drive. Annoyingly the USB-2-Cloud feature, which apparently can back up your files to a cloud storage account is packaged together with the drive. This is initially a free trial account, but you have to pay to continue using it after 1 month, which is very misleadingly advertised. I would class this as bloatware, rather than a feature. Lastly, why would you want to back this drive up to the cloud, where the files will then exist in an unencrypted form within the file structure? I bought this drive for the sole purpose of downloading sensitive data that cannot live on a cloud-based server and keeping that data safe.

So the main problem with usb sticks is that they're ever so easy to lose. And if you lose one with sensitive data on it, a world of hurt beckons. These are a great solution. A read-only drive containing encryption software that you have to use to unlock the writable part of the drive. Works really well. A colleague uses one with her Mac and also swears by them. They feel solid, too. Robust and well built. This is my second - I had the 16 GB version, decided to trade up and passed the first one to another colleague, having reset it using the encryption software to reinitialise the drive. No bad points. If you want secure portable storage you can hang on a keyring, this is well worth a look.

It's difficult to review USB memory sticks. It's not as if they all have vastly different methods of solving the basic requirement of data storage. However for this one I'll go out on a limb and say it's the best-balanced combination of features I've encountered from any memory stick. LOOKS: I'd still give it second-place in this regard to its Kingston stable-mate, the Data Traveler SE9, which I also own. The latter item is the most beautiful USB stick ever. It's like a piece of modern sculpture. However this Locker G3 is much more stylish item than the shoe-box of the Kingston Data Traveler Ultimate G3 (which I also own). That one is a really ugly lump of memory! This Locker G3 is metal, every so-slightly roughened surface, and feel just the right finish and weight. There is also a hole at the end of the body which I have inserted a small split-ring (much smaller than typical key-ring size) with a stub lanyard attached. Overall I'm very happy to be seen in public with this! PERFORMANCE: Beautiful as the SE9 is (did I mention that?) it is pretty slow. This is a very much better unit for speed. I've made no attempt to generate pointless benchmarks of MB/s transfer times - they really don't relate to real-life usage. However I do have a bunch of portable apps with a launch menu stored on my Locker G3 and I can happily run a file manager, browser, text editor etc all from the device itself. I've installed LibreOffice Portable on it,and while the initial launch takes several seconds, thereafter usability is absolutely fine. SECURITY: Very pleased indeed to have this option. As yet I've no way of verifying how secure and robust the encryption system is, but the sooner all manufacturers of USB sticks treat this as a standard feature the better as far as I'm concerned. None of my existing USB sticks (did I mention I have quite a few?) has any form of security built-in. Unlocking the device is a simple process when you plug it in - just a few seconds. The security software has even survived me shutting down the PC without quitting the app first. And it started perfectly next time. So far, very happy. VALUE: Given all the positives above, plus the good 32GB capacity, from a reputable manufacturer, I think a price in the £20-£25 range is very good value for money. It's even come down in price by a couple of ££ since I bought mine, but I still think I bought it at a good price so I'm happy. OVERALL: Can't suggest any reason why you wouldn't want to own one of these. Go get it now.

A few days ago I bought the Kingston Data Traveler Vault Privacy (8GB) and gave it 4 Stars. Compared with that, this one at 16GB capacity wins the full 5 Stars. Here's why: it's smaller (see below); faster (at least on my system); tougher (all metal); cheaper (twice the capacity for around two-thirds the price); and probably just as secure, although it's hard to be sure (see below). Set-up follows the usual Kingston protocol: ensure your PC has two consecutive drive letters free; plug-in the drive; enter a complex password twice; decline the cloud backup (or accept if you want - no idea what that's about); add contact details if you want; and you're done. You can change the drive letters in Control Panel. On my system, speeds look better than the Vault Privacy. This one is also much smaller, and it has a bigger 'ole (roughly 2x2mm) which enables me to latch it inside my key wallet - something I could not do with the other. Here are the approx. dimensions for this drive (in mm) with the Vault Privacy dimensions in brackets for comparison: length/height with cap on: 60 [79]; width 18 [20]; thickness 9 [11]. If you need a fast drive to keep in your pocket, this blows the Vault Privacy out of the water in my opinion. If you need tough encryption, better do more research: they both look good to me, but the Vault Privacy specification states it has 256-bit encryption and I cannot find any data on encryption for this one - neither on Amazon nor on the Kingston press release announcing this product range! If encryption grade is vital, do your due diligence. This USB3 drive looks good in shiny, er, aluminium (?). It replaces a 4GB USB2 model of a similar design that's finally run out of space but did me proud for around five years and still works fine.

Since Truecyrpt died out, I had been searching for a cross platform (Windows and Mac) on the fly encryption program so I can carry my files around encrypted. There isn't to much information on the encryption methods or security but certainly for a basic encryption, it works fine (if I lost the USB, your average Joe wouldn't be able to get at my data). To me, it makes a nice compromise to using the cloud. Load the program, put your password in and off you go - simple. Pretty sure it won't work on Linux or a Chromebook, but then it's not stated as working on such. Speed wise, it performs pretty quick for a USB3 drive but is slowed down by the encryption. Also, it can get quite warm after sustained writing to the drive (wrote 10GB of data to it and it was fairly warm after). Overall, good quality product that works as it should.

I bought 20 of these for use within our charity for storing sensitive data. The product is very good and quite easy to set up with the preferred language and a password and it is easy to access using the password once it is in daily use. I would have given 5 stars except that one of the 20 received was secondhand. It was in a plastic bag, not in a blister pack, and when I plugged it in the log in details came up in Italian. By creating a new password it automatically re-formatted the device so that there is no old Italian data on it, but I have not been able to change the initial log-in language to English.

Su facilidad de manejo y su óptima calidad

Me ha gustado su facilidad de uso, y el hecho de que el software relativo a la protección de datos esté incluido en el propio USB, así no hay problemas para abrirlo en cualquier ordenador. Trae las instrucciones en un PDF adjunto, en inglés, y es muy sencillo de configurar. Es robusto y el propio diseño transmite fiabilidad. En principio, no le veo ninguna pega.

Buen sistema de seguridad, fácil de configurar la contraseña, no hace falta instalaciones de software en los ordenadores que se utiliza, discreto y muy seguro. Te permite errar en varias ocasiones sin que se bloquee.

This is awesome. I have been shopping around for something like this for over a year now I wanted 256 Encryption w/ storage capacity of 64GB. This is awesome because once you set it up, you plug it in , a pop up prompts you to input password, you enter it and the whole drive is decrypted. (or perhaps it decrypts the files you need to access as you go?) the bottom line is that its very fast, everything is instantly accessible once you enter the password, and very safe once its locked. USB 3 ensures fast write/read speeds too. I want 128 GB version...

Tenía un pendrive anteriormente de kington, que me fue de maravilla hasta que lo extravié. No tenía nada megaconfidencial, pero tenía información mía y documentos que no me hacía mucha gracia que viera la persoana que encontró mi unidad. Menos mal que tenía una copia de mis datos en el ordenador. Por esto, me decidí a mirar USBs protegidos, paga ganar en tranquilidad a la hora de transportar mis datos. Estuve entre este Kingston y el Lexar F35 que funciona por huella dactilar. Como mi anterior pen era Kingston y me habia durado milenios, me decidí a repetir con la marca, ya que ambos tenían buenas opiniones. En pendrive que cogi fue el de 32GB. Evidentemente, estas pagando más que uno normal, pero te brinda características superiores, que le dan mucho valos. En primer lugar, como es evidente, la encriptación por hardware, funciona genial, y es sencillísima de usar. Tengo un Windows y un mac, actualizados, y no he tenido problema alguno. Por otro lado, la contrucción, se ve magnífica, muy superior a pendrives de metal normales más baratos. Se ve muy resistente. Y por último, en tercer lugar, el rendimiento: nada que ver con usbs baratos: me da 150 de lectura y 130 de escritura. Vecoidades muy rapidas que permiten transferir superrápido y abrir documemtos desde el usb sin ralentización alguna. Sin duda es un prodcuto magnifico que te da mucha tranquilidad de tener a buen recaudo materia que no quieres que se vea en caso de perdida o robo. Para mi, muy recomendado.