Kingston XS1000

Good things come in small packages

- SAM LEWIS

WHEN YOU IMAGINE a typical external SSD, ‘compact’ and ‘palm-sized’ aren’t the first things that come to mind. For most of their existence, these storage devices have been rather brick-like and rudimentary in their design, however, with its new XS1000 SSD, Kingston has reduced the SSD to the bare minimum. From floppy disks to ultra-portable drives with thousands of times more capacity, the world of storage technology is moving rapidly. So, are the days of inconveniently slow file transfers and corruption finally over? And is Kingston’s latest iteration of a portable external hard drive the shape of things to come?