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Corsair announces 4x faster flash drive

By Tim Conneally, BetaNews

February 28, 2008, 3:20 PM

Corsair announced today its new 16GB Voyager "GT" USB 2.0 flash drive that will be showing at CeBIT next week in Hanover, Germany.

The company typically markets its devices as more rugged than other removable memory devices, with its Survivor line designed to even be water resistant to 200 meters. But the GT is instead shown off for its transfer speeds.

The GT promises speeds up to four times faster than "average USB" devices, according to Corsair, claiming a 1.06 MB office file takes less than 2 seconds , 270 MB worth of pictures takes 24 seconds, and a 1.63 GB movie takes 98 seconds.

Hi-Speed USB 2.0 transfer performs at up to 480 Mbps (60 MB/sec), and Full Speed generally around 12 Mbps (1.5 MB/sec).

Suggested retail price of this drive is $169.99.

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By bento_andy

posted Feb 29, 2008 - 7:55 AM

Price is way to high to buy this....I'll wait for another few months when the price will drop down.

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By 2ears

posted Feb 29, 2008 - 5:26 AM

All this is misleading.

Transfering one single big file to an USB flash drive is not that long, even on current flash drives.

What we need to know, is the time required to transfert 2000 500kb files. This is where one can really feel a difference.

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By melkor

edited Feb 28, 2008 - 7:04 PM

Who wants to buy a flash drive for $170? I can't see a market for it.

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By portablenuke

posted Mar 3, 2008 - 9:09 AM

Anyone who dislikes waiting for files to transfer to a USB flash drive.

I have a 4GB, and it is super speedy. If you can afford one, buy one.

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By Tenoq

posted Feb 28, 2008 - 8:29 PM

eeePC upgrade.

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By Galway

posted Feb 28, 2008 - 5:24 PM

I have had some 8 gig Gt's and the normal 16 gig's for a while. I allways use the GT for its speed, its very fast and very reliable I have found.

I like the Corsair brand, a solid performer as is the Kingston, but choose the corsair because of the high capacity at the time.

The only fault, is the damn lid. I think they have purposly designed them to fall off !!. To be fair, after 1 forum post I was given details of how to get replacements. And a week later, a bag of 20 had arived free of charge.

They get my vote.

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