Corsair Flash Voyager 64 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive CMFUSBHC-64GB
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Customer Review: Slow, but good drive. High capacity and reliablity.
Summary: 4 Stars
I've always been impressed with Corsair's memory. Now they're making USB flash drives. You'd expect quality and speed from Corsair. And they almost deliver here as well as they do in system memory.
This drive is very large for it's price at the time of this writing. I've been using it for nine months and it's also been completely reliable. The only thing that is disappointing is that it's pretty slow -- something that you never associate with the Corsair brand. However, as Corsair is new to the flash drive market, I suspect they start making faster drives.
This is a really nice looking USB drive. But I look for good looks in dates, not USB drives. However, making this drive look nice, affects its size. A drive has three dimensions: length, width, and thickness (height). Although this drive is significantly longer than most, that's only a minor inconvenience when putting it in your pocket, a good trade-off for the capacity. However, the width and thickness can be a big problem. USB ports are usually placed close side-by-side or on top of each other. In either case, you can't fit this USB drive and any other USB device in adjacent USB ports. Unfortunate, especially since it seems that the thickness is just due to the rubber coating. Although that coating feels nice, it's not worth losing the ability to plug the drive into a port that's next to some other USB device.
This drive is great when you have to move large amounts of data. But I'd recommend a faster and smaller (in both capacity and physical form) drive for everyday transfers. As for Corsair, I'd recommend
1. Placing more effort into increasing the speed of the drives.
2. Making the drive no wider or thicker than a USB port. Length is not a problem.
3. Keep the hole that lets you put the drive on a chain, but also add a holder for the cap at that end because caps are easy to lose.
Customer Review: Great disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
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.Customer Review: Tested this against the Kingston 64G DT200
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought one of each of the 64G flash drives to test. We drew a 2 gig group of files off of a server to use as a base.
When we did the Corsair, it took 4 minutes to copy the 2 gig of data. when we used the same group of date to copy to the
Kingston drive ( on the same computer) it took over 12 minutes. And it looked like it did a burst of files then stopped
and repeated this till all the files were copied.
The Corsair was seen by Windows 7 and was available to use in a very short amount of time. the kingston drive took almost a
minute to load up and give us a drive letter.(Why ?) And we have already used other Kingston drives on this test PC.
Using Snow Leopard I got the same results. the Corsair was available to use quicker and did not falter. On Windows XP Pro
we got similar results. Faster transfer times from the Corsair is worth the price. We will sell the Kingstion drive.
I have 22 years of computer experience and I came back and bought 4 more Corsair's for us to use on campus.
(Amazon had the cheapest price)
Customer Review: satisfied
Summary: 4 Stars
With a 64GB capacity in early 2009, I knew I was getting an MLC flash device, and my performance expectations were conceived accordingly. Sure, you can get much faster SLC flash drives, at a fraction the capacity and with much lower space/$. I wrote about 45GB to mine, at an average rate of something like 10MB/s on a MacBook Pro, which was entirely reasonable. I suspect that many of those who complain of the write speed are comparing apples to oranges, or in this case, a large MLC device to a small SLC device. I also suspect that some have the mental idea that a flash drive should take N seconds/minutes to fill, without regard to the capacity difference. Perhaps there are applications for USB flash drives that require massive speed, but I'm currently not aware of any. Heck, if one needs any real speed by today's standards, the bottleneck of the USB interface alone disqualifies any such unit and a (smaller, SLC) class 6 SDHC/CF card with a FireWire reader is a much better option.Customer Review: The Worst USB Money Can Buy
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this USB drive in Feb 09 and started using it until it became my main USB flash drive. I never liked the design of this thing but because of storage capacity I had to carry it with me.
With all my files and pictures on it and on Aug 19, it died completely. I could not make it to work and have tried so many computers at work and at home. I even tried it on WXP, VISTA, MAC OSX, W2K3, and data switches (Routers)... I couldn't access the files.
I can see it as a drive but when I click on it, it says insert drive!!! and on the drive properties, it shows zero bytes. I took it to a data recovery shop and he tried but couldn't make it to work. I really forgot about the money I paid but couldn't get over the effort I put and files I lost which I had on my PC except for one excel sheet which is annoying.
I thought you could learn from my experience, just get some other brand.