Kingston Technology announced the refreshed Kingston XS Series of External SSDs, featuring a bold new design that highlights Kingston’s commitment to performance, reliability, service and innovation.

The new look proudly features Rex, Kingston’s iconic redhead mascot, representing the company’s nearly 40-year legacy of leadership in the global tech industry. Paired with the ‘Built on Commitment’ tagline, the refreshed design reflects Kingston’s ongoing promise to deliver high-performance, dependable storage solutions.

Compact yet powerful, the XS Series, including the XS2000 and XS1000 family, delivers impressive storage performance in a sleek, pocket-sized form, tailored to meet the needs of both professionals and everyday users.

The XS2000 stands as Kingston’s professional-tier external SSD, offering speeds up to 2,000MB/s and large capacities up to 4TB. Designed for content creators, videographers, and media teams, it supports Apple’s ProRes direct video recording, enabling seamless integration with mobile devices and production workflows. It’s the ideal solution for creators who demand studio-grade performance in the palm of their hand.

Meanwhile, the XS1000 and XS1000R are Kingston’s mainstream solutions for everyday storage, file transfer and backups. With read speeds up to 1,050MB/s and capacities up to 2TB, they offer versatile, lightweight storage solutions for a wide range of users, from students and business travelers to hybrid workers, balancing performance, portability, and everyday value.

“At Kingston, our commitment goes beyond just building products, it’s about building trust.” says Kevin
Wu, Sales/Marketing and Business Development Vice President of APAC region. “The refreshed XS Series, featuring Rex and the ‘Built on Commitment’ tagline, reflects our promise to deliver reliable, innovative, and adaptable technology that evolves with our customers’ needs.”

With the XS Series, Kingston strengthens its leadership in memory and storage, blending trusted performance with modern design to empower creators, professionals, and consumers alike.

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Kingston have just released the ultimate pocket-sized portability with the XS1000.

Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand the XS1000 comes in a couple of storage options. We received the 2TB version.

Ready to go from the box, you get the SSD drive and a USB-C to Gen 3.2 USB-A cable.

First test from the box was to connect the XS1000 to an Android smartphone .

Sure enough, the Android 13 OS recognised it straight away and was able to write and read from it instantly.

Same deal with PC (Windows) and MacBook.

Read and write speeds varied.

This is expected as the XS1000 has the capability of up to 1050MB per second, but depending on the secondary source data can transfers can bottleneck and slow.

A 10GB 4K video took just over 3 minutes to write to the XS1000 SSD on PC. On MacBook it was around 7 minutes.

Android, a 6GB game folder was just over a 2 minutes.

This said, writing data direct to the XS1000 SSD was instant with no data lag in saving on all three devices.

The XS1000 is ideal for PC gaming. Those large chunky games can be both written to and played from the XS1000 without any gameplay stutters.

For Android, if you’re a heavy mobile video shooter or hi-res photo snapper plugging the XS1000 in via a USB-C to USB-C cable and assigning as the primary for your vids and snaps not only gives you an instant and reliable storage solution separate from your smartphone’s internal ROM, it will also give you that mega digital storage space your smartphone has always needed.

The XS1000 can also operate on certain DSLR cameras in place of either memory cards or internal storage, and Xbox Series X|S as well as PlayStation 5 recognised the drive and was lightning quick on both consoles to download games on to.

Students, gamers, business folk or photographers, the XS1000 caters for all.

The XS1000 is the ultimate in portable storage. No matter what device you need to expand your digital goodness on to, the Kingston XS1000 is so much space in such a small footprint.

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Kingston Technology has announced the XS1000 External SSD, a small and incredibly sleek file backup solution.

XS1000 joins XS2000 as a new product offering in Kingston’s external SSD product portfolio. Both drives are extremely compact and under 29 grams to provide pocket-sized portability.

Kingston’s XS1000 offers read speeds up to 1,050MB/s and large capacities up to 2TB providing ample room for storing countless photos, videos, and files. The drive comes with a USB-C to USB-A cable and maintains backwards compatibility to ensure seamless connectivity with legacy devices.

All drives go through Kingston’s rigorous product testing to ensure they function with the highest level of quality, reliability, and functionality. Small like a key fob, the XS1000 serves as a reliable companion for easy file backups, guaranteeing continuous access to your important documents, cherished memories and media files.

“Our customers are looking for convenient, fast and reliable storage at an affordable price. With the addition of XS1000 they can look no further as we now offer more options for external storage,” said Kingston. “We designed this drive to be sleek and compact, XS1000 is currently the smallest external SSD available on the market with speeds up to 1,050MB/s1, measuring merely half the size of a standard SSD. This ensures unparalleled portability, making it the ultimate selection for those seeking a combination of convenience and top-notch performance.”

XS1000 is available in 1TB and 2TB capacities and is backed by a limited five-year warranty with free technical support and is compatible with: Windows 11, 10, macOS (v.10.15.x +), Linux (v. 4.4.x +), Chrome OS, Android, iOS  /iPadOS  (v.13+).

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