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Corsair Flash Voyager USB Drive

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Brian Kristensen
Kurtis
Corsair
Dec. 23, 2004

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Features

The shell of the Flash Voyager is made of durable rubber to help protect the drive if it is dropped or comes in contact with water. The rubber also allows the drive to be gripped very easily, but may collect a little lint or dust specs when sitting in your pocket. Towards the bottom of the drive, there is a clear rubber oval which covers a blue activity LED that flashes when the drive is active. The key-ring hole at the bottom of the drive is made entirely of rubber and does stretch. It does hold up pretty well against pulling and tugging, but being rubber, there is a possibility that it could tear. However, I have been carrying the drive around for a week or so and have had absolutely no problems.

The drive's cap is also made of rubber and slips on over the USB connector. The drive that we received had a cap that wasn't too tight. It would stay on the drive fine, but could be slid off fairly easily and might have the potential of getting lost. When we mentioned this to Corsair, they had told us that the issue was already resolved and promptly shipped us a new cap. Upon receiving the new cap, I immediately did a test fit and wasn't surprised when it fit perfectly. The new cap that this drive will ship with fits snugly, and will have absolutely no problems loosening up or sliding off even during the most extreme pocket turbulence!

Software

The Flash Voyager comes with software that allows you to secure the USB drive. In order to use the security software, it must be installed off of the included mini-CD. Once the software is installed on the computer and the Voyager is plugged in, the software gives you the option to format the drive, set up one or two partitions, make the drive bootable, and create or modify the password for the optional secure partition. Doing all of this is fairly straight forward and easy to do. Once you have set up a secure partition, it will not show up in "My Computer' until you have entered the password.

There is one drawback to this method. In order to enter your password and access the secure partition, the Voyager software must be installed on that computer. If you need to access the secure partition on a computer, but don't have the driver mini-CD with you, you are out of luck. To get around this issue, you could copy the software install utility (~3MB) to the unsecured partition of the Flash Voyager drive and from there install it on any computer needed.

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Page 3: Performance / Physical Testing
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5 User Comments

1 - Posted by PsychoSnowMan on December 24, 2004 - 1:48 am

If you make one more post you'll have the same amount of posts as the year...

2 - Posted by MaNiAk21 on December 24, 2004 - 10:12 am

How random. :P

3 - Posted by Kurtis on December 24, 2004 - 11:49 am

YAAAY 2004! I won't post again until 2005. That will be awesome. I'm a rockstar!

4 - Posted by EmoMakesMeCry on December 30, 2004 - 3:21 pm

i've lost 2 flash drives so far from leaving them in my pockets when i did the laundry. i might need to pick up some of these.

5 - Posted by PsychoSnowMan on December 30, 2004 - 11:30 pm

I haven't had a flash drive yet but I think it'd be useful, maybe after I upgrade I'll buy one or wait till my birthday.

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