Corsair Flash Voyager GTX USB 3.0 128GB Flash Drive Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2014-09-01

Corsair has gone even further in terms of performance by including a SSD controller inside their latest USB Flash Drive; this way the Voyager GTX USB 3.0 was born and features a nice brushed aluminum chassis for a sturdy design and is available in both 128GB and 256GB variants.

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Test Setup and Test Results

The testbench was composed from the following hardware:

 

CPU: Intel I5 4670K Retail @ stock

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-UD5H

RAM: GeIL Black Dragon 2x4GB DDR2133 (@1600)

Video: Sparkle GTX 470 with stock and OMNI A.L.C.

Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 & OCZ Vertex 4 240GB SSD

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64


The Corsair Flash Voyager GTX 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive comes formatted FAT32:

 

 

To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used:

 

 

HD Tune File Benchmark

 

 


Summary Graph (Read Performance)

 

To measure the real life performance, I have used the Total Commander application to copy to the flash drive and from the flash drive the same file and recorded the transfer speeds, when they have stabilized.

 

File Copy


File Read


Summary Graph (Real-life performance)

 

 

ATTO

 

 

Anvil

 

 

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