IT administrators running portable operating systems from the Flash Voyager GT may also find a niche for this drive as an on-the-fly administrative tool capable of storing user profiles, tools, operating systems and portable applications. My real-world results were measured using Microsoft's own Robocopy tool to measure performance for both read and write operations on a 640MB ISO image file. The read speeds matched my previous Robocopy and HDTune results with a score of 30.9MB/s, very close to Corsair's own estimate of 32MB/s. The write speeds, however, did not fare as well and I only managed to record a maximum of 20.7 MB/s, well below Corsair's estimate of 28MB/s. Compared to the Kingston DataTraveler 150 32GB the read speeds are on-par while the write speed on the Corsair Flash Voyager GT 128GB clearly beats the Kingston DT150 back into the stone-age.
Recap
As the largest capacity and fastest performing USB flash drive to ever step into EverythingUSB's test-bench, the sheer cost of the drive stops me from recommending it to the average consumer unless the before-stated average consumer is less average and more rich. I can certainly see a niche market for these size of drives using a USB interface but feel overall that manufacturers are flogging a dead horse with large capacity flash drives built around the USB 2.0 interface when they should really be concentrating on either the up-coming USB 3.0 or the already current and fully supported eSATA interface. Price and size aside, this drive is certainly a great performer and should please any owner willing to put up with the heavy weight and slightly bulky size. U盘之家
