Kingston DataTraveler Exodia 128GB USB 3.2 Gen 1 Drive

The Kingston DataTraveler Exodia DTX/128GB is number 2 in this guide. It is a 128 GB USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A stick with a protective cap and a loop the listing says attaches easily to key rings, priced at £11.99 and rated 4.4 out of 5 from 68,396 ratings — the largest review count of any drive here. Of the 100 entries in the rating breakdown shown on the listing, 70 are five-star and 7 are one-star.

It is also the mirror image of the problem this guide keeps flagging. Where other drives print a headline speed and then stretch the same number across read and write, this listing barely prints a speed at all: there is no read figure anywhere on the sheet, and the write-speed field reads '2x', which tells you nothing without a base to multiply it by. Two other fields are wrong for a USB stick — flash memory type is listed as 'SD' and compatible phone models as 'standard' — and the colour field says black while a bullet promises multiple colour options by capacity. One review shown on the page describes a 64GB Exodia, a different capacity in the same range. Everything on this page comes from the Amazon listing as published — prices, figures, ratings and quoted reviews — and not from any test we ran.