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An excellent piece of technology.
Over the course of the last 6 years I've had a number of USB drives. Iomega, Corsair, Apacer, PNY and SanDisk. I've upgraded each time I felt the storage increase justified the cost. I work in information technology so they are tools more than toys, anyway on to the review. This 8GB drive is fantastic. I have it split into two partitions, one of which is encrypted. I've used it in all sorts of systems and also have a .bat file that allows me to sync my data, my point? Whether you are transferrin...
Corsair CMFUSB2.0-8GB 8GB Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive review by Nikk Gilbert can be read at Amazon.Com |
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5.0 out of 5.0
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01/24/2007
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Paris, France
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96%
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50% Faster Writes than advertised
I'm very happy so far, especially as I tested the write speed to be 18MB/S which is 50% faster than claimed. The read speed was the claimed 31MB/S. Came with USB extension lead and disk with the encryption software on. My last flash stick was a Sandisk with 3U - it always gave quite a wait to boot up 3U so I don't think I'm going to miss it - perhaps will miss the auto backup software. The TrueCrypt encryption software that comes with the Voyager is freeware - seems very good and the...
Corsair CMFUSB2.0-8GB 8GB Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive review can be read at Amazon.Com |
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Anonymous
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5.0 out of 5.0
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03/15/2007
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93%
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Fine drive, but unreliable?
I purchased 12 of these drives for the office and three have gone belly up in the first three months of use. I sent one back and I'm waiting to here if they will replace it before sending the other two. I also bought a 16GB version which seems to be working fine. The three drives that went bad were being used by three different people on various machines, so I don't believe the users are at fault for the drive failures.
Corsair CMFUSB2.0-8GB 8GB Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive review can be read at Amazon.Com |
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3.0 out of 5.0
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08/07/2007
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91%
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Fast but unreliable
I like the capacity and the write speed. It worked fine on a Mac G4 desktop but failedrepeatedly on a MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.4.9 during an overseas trip. The worst error diagnostic was "cannot unmount drive" - which meant devicehad to be initialized & reformatted, losing all data. This typically happened upon trying to save updated files; apparently rewrite destroys the internal file structure. All in all, a $100 waste.
Corsair CMFUSB2.0-8GB 8GB Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive review can be read at Amazon.Com |
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05/25/2007
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90%
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Much Better
I had been getting larger USB flash drives as the performance-to-price was reasonable. I went to a competing 4G unit, which I had had success with their earlier versions, but it was truly a dog. Twice as slow on large files and more than ten times as slow with a bunch of smaller files (e.g., 3 minute transfer ended up taking more than 30 minutes).So, I looked around. This one (the GT version, which supposedly is faster) had good reviews and a good price. I couldn't find it locally, s...
Corsair CMFUSB2.0-8GB 8GB Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive review by Randy Given can be read at Amazon.Com |
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Randy Given
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5.0 out of 5.0
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05/24/2007
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Manchester, CT USA
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88%
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Not Reliable
The product failed on me only after having it for 3 months. Corsair customer service has been slow to send me a new one. Not worth the hassle of paying for shipping and being out of a drive for such a long time. Go with some other manufacturer. The rubber is unnecessary and makes it hard to connect. I end up leaving the dongle on it so my drive has essentially doubled in size.
Corsair CMFUSB2.0-8GB 8GB Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive review can be read at Amazon.Com |
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03/18/2008
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87%
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Safety for Travellers
I am a global traveller and as always I back everything up. I recently purchased this device with a massive 32G memory and encryption software. This is a second backup to a seperate hard drive.A whole weeks training class, power points and documents where carried on this in my pocket through numerous airports, security searches and road trips. Very robust, water tight and easy to use.Thankfully I didnt need to rely on this but it was always there...
Corsair CMFUSB2.0-8GB 8GB Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive review can be read at Amazon.Com |
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02/21/2008
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86%
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Wonderful Hard disk, in your Pocket ! 32 GB, of freedom, and Mobility
Corsair CMFUSB2.0-8GB 8GB Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive review can be read at Amazon.Com |
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09/04/2008
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83%
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disastrously slow
This review is from: Corsair Flash Voyager 32 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive CMFUSB2.0-32GB (Personal Computers) I bought this thumb drive to transport large log files from a contract job.Unfortunately I have found that the file transfer speed is *REALLY* slow.USB2.0? Flash? I'm getting anywhere from 500KB/s to 2.5 MB/s transfer rates from my computer drive to the Corsair drive.This is on a modern unloaded Macbook Pro. I'm currently looking at 4 hours to transfer 6G...
Corsair CMFUSB2.0-8GB 8GB Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive review can be read at Amazon.Com |
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11/25/2008
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83%
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Worked great for 2 months.
Got my 16GB usb key for Christmas. Great. Never run out of room again. It's Feb. and the key is DEAD and does not work.Also, the little rubber cap on the end falls off and is gone in about 3 weeks... you won't see that again. Just died and took anything I didn't have backed up somewhere else with it.
Corsair CMFUSB2.0-8GB 8GB Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive review can be read at Amazon.Com |
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02/28/2008
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81%
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