Corsair Flash Voyager 64 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive CMFUSBHC-64GB by Corsair
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Digital camera reviews of Corsair Flash Voyager 64 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive CMFUSBHC-64GB
Digital camera Review: Amazing storage for a flash drive
Summary: 5 Stars
Got this two weeks ago for backing up files from one or two of the servers at work. The advantage of flash drives is that I can carry several of these around and they don't take up much space at all. I was a little bit worried about the speed but that is not a problem with the Corsair. This flash drive is a bit bigger than the Kingston 64gb but the speed is worth it. I'm not sure what the difference in technology is but this drive is about twice the speed when copying 50GB to it. In addition the Kingston 64gb required a formatting before I could use it. Not so with the Corsair. Worked right from the start. If you need a lot of storage in a flash drive, this is the drive for you.Digital camera Review: Big and tough... oh, and did I mention 'big'.
Summary: 5 Stars
If flash drives were all forced to play profesional sport then the Voyager 64GB would be signed up by the All Blacks as a Rugby Prop Forward. Big, strong, dependable and mobile. It's no sprinter or pint sized jockey - there are other drives that can do that much much better. I'm more than happy with mine and you will be too if you need capacity and durability... just don't expect it to run the hundred metres in record time.
Digital camera Review: Corsair 64 GB Flash Drive
Summary: 1 Stars
I had to return the product as it would not format. When communicating with the seller, I was advised that once received, they would replace the product and reimburse me for the return postage. Instead of doing that, they issued a full refund for the original purchase price and shipping charges but not the $4.95 I paid to return it. When I questioned them on this, they advised that I could pay them $80 through PayPal and they would ship me another flash drive. I have difficulty in doing business with people that do not honor their commitments even though I was reimbursed minus the additional charges I had to pay. That seems to be unprofessional and quite frankly, I do not trust them to follow through since their word is obviously not good.Digital camera Review: Corsair 64 gb
Summary: 5 Stars
The product arrived in great shape and has worked perfectly. Very useful in off loading videos and pictures from my hard drive.Digital camera Review: Corsair 64 gb flash drive
Summary: 2 Stars
Here's my comprehensive review. Enjoy!
SIZE: The Corsair 64gb flash drive is quite large... it's as long as my WD passport external hard drive and as fat as my thumb. It is difficult to plug in another USB device whilst this guy is attached as it takes up considerable room. It does come with an extension cable which does alleviate this problem, but it's yet another thing you have to carry around. The point of owning a flash drive is portability isn't it? When there are a lot of peripherals to carry around, it defeats this purpose. The cap is also a problem because it becomes loose with time and it's easy to lose.
CASING: The drive is truly water resistant (as long as you still have your cap). It has a rubber shell that's pleasant to touch and it bounces when dropped. The more important aspect of this rubber texture is the fact that it grabs a hold of the inside of your pocket. Unlike some of the other reviews I've read, I actually like it .It's more difficult to accidently lose the drive when removing other objects from your pocket, like change.
DESIGN: It's fairly ugly and it looks like an adult toy due to its size. Sorry, Corsair, but it does!
FILE SYSTEM: It is formatted as FAT32. You cannot copy files larger than 4 gigabytes in size onto the drive because of this. I formatted mine to NTFS, which turned out to be a big mistake! DO NOT format it as NTFS!!! You will lose considerable read/write speeds if you do, even with a larger cluster size, say 16k. NTFS also burns out flash drives much quicker than FAT32 because NTFS writes to the drive even if files are only read. Also, once you change it to NTFS you'll have a hard time getting it back to FAT32 if you're on Windows: you'll need 3rd party software to do it, like Acronis Disk Director Suite.
SPEED: TESTED ON WINDOWS VISTA ULTIMATE. I feel very disappointed with the speed of the drive. Read speeds were alright, but the write speeds are unacceptable. With the FAT32 file system write speeds average 1-1.3 MBps. Ehh. With NTFS write speeds deteriorated to 300 KBps! Now that is slllooooowwww. Keep it as FAT32 like I recommended before.
CONCLUSION: The drive is too big physically to be a flash drive and too slow to be comparable to an external hard drive. If you want portable storage with this kind of capacity, get an external hard drive instead. The technology just isn't there right now to really be useful. I recommend a WD passport as a substitute.