Once upon a time when USB flash drives were new to the market, I had a 1GB (or 512MB, can't remember) Corsair Flash Voyager, and I was not unimpressed with what it could do. In These days flash drives are like 3.5" floppies were 15 years ago. Also like floppies, most inexpensive USB drives have been great on reads, but slow as daylight on writes. This is not one of those drives. Copying a large file (a 1.5gb .WMV movie) over USB 3.0 (from a 1TB Samsung 850 Evo) saw sustained transfer speeds between 59MB/s and 61MB/s. Copying the same movie back to the SSD saw speeds between 89MB/s and 91MB/s. Even small transfers (a folder of images ranging from 300KB to 800KB), which is where USB drives usually suffer badly, completed at a very respectable 11MB/s. My first Corsair Voyager lasted about 8 years until I connected it to a wrongly wired USB port, and until that time, despite heavy usage, I never lost a file, so I have great expectations for this drive.
The one downside I can find with this drive, and it is a small one, and it may be my computer, is that it takes several seconds to be recognized. While not a downside worth docking a star for, the original Corsair Voyagers shipped with a utility which could create a password protected encrypted partition, but these days there are several drives, including some made by Corsair, with hardware level encryption.
Of course as soon as it was delivered the price dropped by $1, but isn't that always the way?
| Write Speed | 55 MB per second |
|---|---|
| Read Speed | 190 Megabytes Per Second |
| Connectivity Technology | USB |
| Color | Black |
| Model Name | 64GB Voyager V2 |
| Flash Memory Type | USB |
| Manufacturer | Corsair |
| Hardware Connectivity Technology | USB Type A |
| UPC | 012303340134 012303909133 088022163231 885782162319 803982797674 012300071086 041114091911 734911368521 843591047319 044111218329 617407438529 693080508582 044113002995 014444848289 734911114517 655777774731 |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00655777774731, 08435910473194, 00843591047319 |
| RAM | 64 GB |
