Corsair Flash Voyager

I received the 64GB flash drive two days ago, and I am returning it today. It has given me problems right from the start. I was able to put about 15GB of data on the drive, but it seemed very sluggish when… copying the data and playing back small video files. I have had many small and large size flash drives, but none has given me any problems like the Corsair flash drive has. Yesterday my computer did not consistently detect the flash drive, gave me error messages for perfectly common file types like wmv and sometimes crashed. Today there was absolutely nothing I could do with the drive. I could neither add nor erase data, nor format the drive. It said that the drive was write-protected. I checked online in the Corsair forum and found that this write-protect error seemed quite common, and that the technician responding to such complaints said that Corsair would be willing to replace the drive when that happened. I don't think I want to have a piece of equipment that problematic replaced. I bought the Corsair flash drive because the price was right and the reviews were uniformly positive on Amazon. The reviews are kind of misleading, though, because they also or mostly refer to smaller size Corsair flash drives, which might indeed be good. But I can say for sure that the 64GB drive is not.

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A picture is worth a thousand words, see the customer uploaded image above of the circuitboard removed from the rubber case. It is just a circuit board surrounded by rubber! I pulled it out one day on… accident, it died shortly thereafter. NOT sturdy enough for your pocket. PLUS the rubber ring is just that - stretchy rubber! PROS: Cheap and fast, just baby it like it made of glass and backup all your data just in case. Corsair kindly replaced it so that was nice...it just isnt a drive you want to c arry with you everywhere.

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I've been using this product for nearly a month. I immediately backed up about 12 GB of data to it (a mix of large and small files), which took about 45 minutes as I recall. As I'd been warned, writing… large amounts of data to these flash drives isn't particularly fast. From what I've read, this model is about middle of the pack at best in terms of write speed for 16 GB flash drives. (It reads quickly, though.) But for my purposes its reputation for reliability and durability were more important. So far so good. As for the physical device itself, the design is pretty gaudy, but the tough rubber housing makes this item a lot sturdier and presumably better protected than plastic flash drives I've seen.

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