Conclusive Thoughts

As years progress tech items become smaller and smaller, the DataTraveler Mini Slim is a prime example of this. Unfortunately Kingston made some significant performance sacrifices to make this technology fit inside the small package.

With read speeds maxing out at 14Mb/s and write speeds not even pushing past 2.5 Mb/s it’s hard to recommend this USB drive. While you can find the 8Gb variant on eBay and webshops for €20 and less, it would take you more than an hour to fill it with data. With competitor products performing much better at similar price points the Mini Slim should be avoided unless its unique size and design is of importance to you.

+ Extremely Compact
+ Acceptably Priced
- No carrying cord/string
- Very low read speeds, horrible write speeds