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Corsair claims its new 16GB high-performance "GT" Flash Voyager is the fastest USB flash drive made. Although this is a bold claim, my tests showed it's not marketing hype. But there are caveats, so read on.
Corsair released its Flash Voyager GT back in February, but only recently offered models for review. I snapped one up as soon as they were available because until now, IronKey's Secure Flash Drive had been the fastest drive I'd ever tested.
Corsair markets its GT drive (there is a standard Flash Voyager too) as having up to four times the speed of the average USB flash drive, thereby allowing you to quickly "store-n-go" everything from photos to full-length movies. In fact, Corsair's press release states that the Flash Voyager GT can download a 1.63GB movie in 98 seconds. That claim was too bold to ignore, but first I wanted to see how long it would take to download it directly from Amazon to the flash drive, so I chose Michael Clayton -- mostly because it's one of the few new movies I haven't seen. The movie file was 2.21GB in size and took 18 minutes, 30 seconds to download, even though Amazon's Unbox video download utility told me I could begin watching the flick after about four minutes of download time. My home network runs off of Verizon FiOS , which affords me a 20Mbit/sec. download speed, and it ran at that pace the entire time. I then transferred another copy of the same movie from my laptop to the flash drive, and that took four minutes and 25 seconds. Not bad, but obviously longer than Corsair's claim even with the added 580MB of data. I'd never played a movie off a flash drive, but I was impressed with the visual quality of this one -- even if it was on a 15-inch laptop. It also occurred to a colleague of mine that a USB flash drive will use far less battery power than my laptop's DVD drive, meaning more uptime on a cross-country flight.
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The only other drive to virtually match this one's speed is still the IronKey, which uses more costly single-level cell (SLC) NAND memory. SLC provides less density (it stores only one bit per cell), but it affords greater data transfer speeds and longer product life. Corair's drive uses multi-level cell (MLC) NAND for greater capacities, but Corsair also claims to pick very high-quality MLC memory.
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