Thursday, August 13th 2009
Corsair Launches World's Fastest High Capacity USB Flash Drive
Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer memory, power supplies and flash memory products, including solid-state drives, today announced the 128GB Flash Voyager GT, the world's fastest 128GB USB flash drive.
The newest Flash Voyager GT is based upon a revolutionary design that employs a unique dual-controller architecture to achieve SLC-levels of performance using MLC NAND flash memory. The 128GB Flash Voyager GT is able to achieve read speeds of up to 32MB/sec and write speeds of up to 25.6MB/sec, with the limiting factor effectively being the speed of the USB 2.0 bus and operating system overhead."High performance is a key requirement for super-high capacity flash drives, such as the 128GB Voyager GT, simply because it is able to store such a large volume of data," said John Beekley, the VP of Applications at Corsair. "The 128GB Voyager GT is nearly twice as fast as other high-capacity flash drives, which means less time waiting for your music, video or office files to copy to and from the drive."
The 128GB Flash Voyager GT also utilizes a durable and water-resistant rubber housing to protect the drive against accidental damage, and sports the racing-red 'GT' styling that is a trademark of Corsair's ultra high-performance products.
"The 128GB Flash Voyager GT is ideal for those who need access to a huge volume of data in a format that's convenient, durable and extremely fast," said Jim Carlton, VP of Marketing for Corsair. "The 128GB Flash Voyager GT can store massive video, photo and music libraries, yet it's less than half the size of a solid-state drive, effectively obsoleting less-reliable, portable mechanical hard disk drives."
The 128GB Flash Voyager GT is available immediately from Corsair's authorized distributors and resellers worldwide, and is backed by a 10-Year Limited Warranty. Complete customer support via telephone, email, forum and Tech Support Express is also available.
The newest Flash Voyager GT is based upon a revolutionary design that employs a unique dual-controller architecture to achieve SLC-levels of performance using MLC NAND flash memory. The 128GB Flash Voyager GT is able to achieve read speeds of up to 32MB/sec and write speeds of up to 25.6MB/sec, with the limiting factor effectively being the speed of the USB 2.0 bus and operating system overhead."High performance is a key requirement for super-high capacity flash drives, such as the 128GB Voyager GT, simply because it is able to store such a large volume of data," said John Beekley, the VP of Applications at Corsair. "The 128GB Voyager GT is nearly twice as fast as other high-capacity flash drives, which means less time waiting for your music, video or office files to copy to and from the drive."
The 128GB Flash Voyager GT also utilizes a durable and water-resistant rubber housing to protect the drive against accidental damage, and sports the racing-red 'GT' styling that is a trademark of Corsair's ultra high-performance products.
"The 128GB Flash Voyager GT is ideal for those who need access to a huge volume of data in a format that's convenient, durable and extremely fast," said Jim Carlton, VP of Marketing for Corsair. "The 128GB Flash Voyager GT can store massive video, photo and music libraries, yet it's less than half the size of a solid-state drive, effectively obsoleting less-reliable, portable mechanical hard disk drives."
The 128GB Flash Voyager GT is available immediately from Corsair's authorized distributors and resellers worldwide, and is backed by a 10-Year Limited Warranty. Complete customer support via telephone, email, forum and Tech Support Express is also available.
17 Comments on Corsair Launches World's Fastest High Capacity USB Flash Drive
Can wait to see how quickly the next careless gvt employee loses a lot of confidential data. LOL
At least is about what an USB2.0 can do, so that's ok, but not great. ESATA is a must.
HOWEVER...
Since we have no idea what this costs - said heated & irrational reactions are a little difficult.
Assuming This thing maxes out at USB 2 speeds we can conclude the following :
If (this thing < $70) then Inc(Impressed)
Else Ripoff="True"
Edit : I am also accepting free samples of the unit for review purposes if anyone wants to send me one... Anyone? ....
So yeah - Confirmed... ~$400 by the time you have one of these in your hand.
I admit - the price is not TOO bad when you scale up say a 32Gb Compact Flash card price X4, but regardless... 128GB is NOT WORTH $400, and anyone who pays that deserves to lose their money.
I still use my sata caddy,it connects to the onboard sata connectors on my motherboard so is really fast.As far as i'm concerned,usb is useless for big size usb storage,even the speeds on this are too slow to be realistically useful.Also if you did'nt need big portable space,you would'nt buy one this big,so yeah the 86mins to fill it are a pita if you bought one because you need this much portable storage.
I would much rather have a drive this big with a sata/e-sata connection on it.
But I want me some USB3 goodness now. :(