Corsair Flash Voyager USB Thumb Drive

The cap and key loop of the Flash Voyager are entirely made of rubber.  The rubber key loop is sturdier than you would think.  I pulled and pried at it with some pliers with moderate effort to ensure it wouldn’t tear or break easily; it didn’t.  If you look closely, just below the loop you can see a clear circular area.  This lights blue when the drive is accessed.  Looking even more closely at this, we see that the size of the unit is marked here.  In this case, it's 512. 

  

Placing the unit next to my keychain gives you a better idea of its size.  While not as small as the SanDisk Micro, it remains compact enough to be put on a keychain and be no more out of place as a larger car key.  There is a plus and a minus here.  While many folks prefer a smaller thumb drive, these tiny drives do have a tendency to get lost more easily.  You want things small but not too small because at a certain point, it works against itself.  A perfect example of this would be cell phones.  Do you really want a cell phone the size of a credit card??

Here's just a quick shot of the Corsair Flash Voyager under power and being accessed.  Something else that was pretty hip was that the drive is displaying in your file tree as "Corsair (x)" drive.

  

Performance

To test the Corsair Flash Voyager we benched it with SiSoft Sandra 2004 Pro’s File System Benchmark.  The comparison unit we have here in the shop is going to be a SanDisk Micro, that we will also bench so as to give you a relative measure for comparison.  As we have said before, benchmarking these types of drives really isn’t about raw performance but rather is the unit performing in line with other products of this type or not.  Each product was benched five times with the highest and lowest scores being thrown out; the remaining three were then averaged and that is what you see here.

Test Bed

• AMD Athlon XP 3200+

• Thermaltake BigWater Cooling Kit

• ABIT AN7 mainboard

• (2) 512mb DIMMS of Corsair XMS3200

• Chaintech GeForce AA6800Turbo

• Maxtor 80gb SATA HDD

• Generic DVD-RW

• Windows XP Professional with all patches and service packs installed

Results

Let's begin with a screen shot of Sandra for the Corsair Flash Voyager unit.

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