14 DAY TRIAL // Corsair launched a new Flash USB Drive, to complete its line. The Corsair Flash Voyager has Plug & Play functionality in Windows XP (2000, ME), Linux 2.4 (and later), Mac OS 9, X and later. A password protected partition can be created with a security application. It sustains a read speed up to 19 MB/s and a write speed up to 13 MB/s. It has a 10 year warranty.
And now, moving on to the best part, the capacity: 8 GB, the largest encountered in an USB drive. Please note that the industry standard for measuring capacity on flash memory storage products (such as SD cards, USB flash drives, etc) is 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million (1,000,000) bytes and 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. Some of the listed capacity is consumed by formatting the device and other internal device functions, and is not available for data storage. Also, most operating systems report device storage capacity in binary format in which 1 MB = 1,048576 bytes and 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes; therefore, an operating system will typically report the capacity of a 4GB flash device as ~3.73GB (= 4,000,000,000/1,073,741,824). Additionally, on flash devices there is small amount of overhead involved with formatting the device. The combination of these two factors causes the operating system to report the slightly reduced number of available bytes on the system. In this case, the true value of this drive is 7.45 GB. You can transfer at least 1 DVD movie. That is still very high as this memory behavior is characteristic of all flash storage devices from all manufacturers. It's not for Corsair devices only.
The drive can be purchased on-line for around 155$. Pay that and you will have a nice product, with a decent look, given by its durable rubber casing, that makes it easy to grip and gives it water resistance as well.