Product Verification

Identifying Genuine Kingston Product

Kingston® has become synonymous with quality memory products worldwide. But like other global companies with quality products, Kingston’s brand recognition has not made it immune to counterfeiting. Kingston has found a number of fraudulent items being falsely represented as Kingston products in the worldwide market.

To protect our customers and Kingston’s image as a quality brand, we have produced this guide to allow you to instantly verify whether the product you have purchased or are planning to buy is a genuine Kingston product.

Product labels for SSDNow solid-state drives are designed with both color shift and Phantom technologies. For these drives, the Phantom technology area changes colors from light red to dark red, or grey to dark grey when held at different angles.

The following products do not feature Phantom or color shift technology: microSD, microSDHC (4GB-32GB), IronKey drives, DataTraveler 2000, DataTraveler SE9, DataTraveler SE9 G2, DataTraveler microDuo 3.0, DataTraveler microDuo 3C, DataTraveler Elite G2, DataTraveler Vault Privacy 3.0, DataTraveler Valut Privacy 3.0 Anti-Virus & Management-Ready, DataTraveler 4000G2 and DataTraveler 4000G2 Management Ready, USB 3.0 Media Reader, MobileLite G4 Reader, USB microSD/SDHC/SDXC Reader and MobileLite Duo 3C.