Kingston 2022 Limited Edition Mini Tiger USB Flash Drive Review

The New Year comes, and Kingston has always come prepared to celebrate that momentous occasion with such flair as it announces a new cutesy drive.

The New Year comes, and Kingston has always come prepared to celebrate that momentous occasion with such flair as it announces a new cutesy flash drive, and this time it’s the Tiger. That’s right. This New Year, you’ll want to grab this adorbs Kingston 2022 Limited Edition Mini Tiger USB Flash Drive encased in a snazzy soda plastic can.

PACKAGING AND DESIGN

As mentioned, Kingston is shipping these adorable flash drives inside of a very cute soda bottle packaging that you’re not sure to keep it altogether and just not open it or use it together with the flash drive for kicks. At the back of the label are the specifications to let you know what you’re getting. Apparently, there’s only one version, and that’s for the 64GB capacity.

The charming tiger flash drive itself on the other hand is comprised of two parts. One for the actual flash drive itself, and the other is a rubber shock-resistant base that functions as the body of the tiger. The flash drive, which is the tail, can also be used to attach to a keychain. But again, you’ll probably take care of it better if you have a special case for it.

PERFORMANCE

According to Kingston, the Year of the Tiger flash drive is rated up to 200MB/s read speed. No indication on the write speed, so we’ll put it to the test. As for our that, we’ll be using the USB 3.2 Type A Gen Port of our NZXT H1 that’s connected to our A520I AC Motherboard’s USB 3.2 header.

Crystal Disk Mark

We begin with one of the storage benchmark standards with Crystal Disk Mark to measure both of its read and write rates through a series of tests.

AS SSD Benchmark

AS SSD tests the sequential or random read/write performance without using the cache. Results are measured in iops.

ATTO Disk Benchmark

ATTO Disk Benchmark is an industry leading benchmark that help measure performance of system storage such as hard drives, solid state drives, RAID arrays, and so forth.

Real World Performance

For an actual application on how it works,we've copied our Halo Infinite installation folder from our Kingston A2000 (72% full) to the flash drive. The file folder consists of 27,563 files amounting to 26.5GB with file sizes from KB to GB.

Kingston 2022 Limited Edition Mini Tiger USB Flash Drive: 12 minutes 20 seconds

Kingston 2021 Limited Edition Mini Cow USB Flash Drive: 53 minutes 12 seconds

CONCLUSION

It’s actually hard to decide whether I want to use this as a storage device for daily use or I’ll want to keep it shelved for collection purposes. As far as purr-formance goes, the Kingston Year of the Tiger flash drive offers a better performance compared to its predecessor from last year in benchmarks especially in real world applications. But regardless of that, it’s really more on how it’s a collectible that you’d want to keep. I’m glad Kingston has found this presentation and retained it. After all, consistency is the primary factor when it comes to collectibles. 

Here at hexmojo, we love collectibles, and if you've started your collection of cutesy New Year flash drives from Kingston, then this one will definitely be a must.