USB flash drives have been around for a decade, but only now have they reached a capacity where they actually are able to store every document, photo and important document an average person owns. With the 16 and 32GB versions readily available, and the 128GB and 256GB solutions in the pipelines we are not really pressured to buy even bigger capacity models to keep up.

An 1GB pen drive may be sufficient for someone who only carries around a CD worth of data, or a few documents at any given time, more is simply a waste of money in this particular case. 2GB pen drives have no particular advantage over a 1GB flash drives in the sense of practicality.

A 2GB flash drive is able to store twice as much information as a 1GB model does, but is still under the magical 4.5GB mark DVD forcefully drawn as the lowest capacity a storage media needs to have to play with the big guys.

A 8GB flash drive is the smallest capacity model that can store a whole DVD, a high definition movie for example. With this unique attribute the 8GB pendrive keeps a reasonably big market share and it will stay that way unless higher capacity writable media starts to gain ground on DVD.

These USB flash drives are in the range of $15-$35, depending on speed, brand, encryption or biometric authentication. Most people will be fine with cheaper models and the Kingston Datatraveler I 8gb meets the demand perfectly. With its low price at around $21 the Datatraveler offers a reasonably cheap, branded USB 2.0 flash drive that is likely to stay functional for a few years.

Kingston gives 5 years of warranty on this model and it means that you are highly unlikely to wear it down before the capacity becomes too small to be comfortable enough. Color of the label on the usb drive is in correlation with the capacity. Every variation has a different colored label. The 8GB Datatraveler has a black label, in my personal opinion this is the most stylish piece.

They’re compatible with Windows Vista and 7, Mac OSX from 10.3 and upwards and any version of the Linux 2.6 kernel. According to the manufacturer Readyboost technology is not supported, however I’d give it a try before accepting it. Most pen drives work with readyboost even unsupported. My no name oem 2gb flash drive at least certainly does.

A 8GB pen drive is a comfortable and cheap way of transferring data, for those who need a value product from a respectable memory manufacturer the Datatraveler 8GB might be just the pen drive to choose