DataTraveler Blue
Kington's DataTraveler Blue is ostensibly the cheaper, and less fully featured, offering in its secure USB drive series. However, it offers much of the same functionality with the added bonus of Linux support too – which is interesting, given they are appear to have the same hardware under the hood.
The Windows software for the Blue is also essentially the same, providing a tray-icon to easily lock/unlock or format the device. In testing it returned identical results to the DT6000 in terms of security features, but with a slightly faster read-speed for performance which is welcome.
The Linux software is command-line based and works exactly like its Windows counterpart, enabling you to login or out of the device, and format it (set a new password). Out of interest we thought we'd see if the software worked on the DT6000 too, but it didn't recognise it.
While not the fastest drive on test, it bundles clean and easy to use software and all the essential security features you expect, while being the only other drive to offer support for Linux – and at half the price of the other 2GB drive on test, the Ironkey D200.
