14 DAY TRIAL // Not very long ago, Kingston, one of the world's leading vendors of NAND Flash-based memory products, announced the introduction of the industry's first 128GB USB flash drive, an achievement the company later surpassed with the launch of the world's first 256GB USB flash drive. It now appears the market for Flash-based USB thumb drives continues to grow, as other industry players are stepping up their game with their own 128GB USB flash drives. That is the case with Corsair, which has just updated its product portfolio with the new Flash Voyager GT thumb drive, boasting an impressive 128GB of storage space.
“High performance is a key requirement for super-high capacity flash drives, such as the 128GB Voyager GT, simply because it is able to store such a large volume of data,” said John Beekley, the VP of Applications at Corsair. “The 128GB Voyager GT is nearly twice as fast as other high-capacity flash drives, which means less time waiting for your music, video or office files to copy to and from the drive.”
According to the company, the new USB Flash drive has been designed to deliver a mix of both high-performance and increased storage, compared to other USB thumb drives on the market. The MLC NAND Flash-based solution has been featured with a new dual-controller architecture that is capable of providing the end-user with SLC-like performance levels. The 128GB Flash Voyager GT is said to achieve read speeds of up to 32MB/s, while write speeds can go up to 25.6MB/s. According to Corsair, the limiting factor for the performance of these drives is effectively the speed of the USB 2.0 interface.
“The 128GB Flash Voyager GT is ideal for those who need access to a huge volume of data in a format that’s convenient, durable and extremely fast,” said Jim Carlton, VP of Marketing for Corsair. “The 128GB Flash Voyager GT can store massive video, photo and music libraries, yet it’s less than half the size of a solid-state drive, effectively obsoleting less-reliable, portable mechanical hard disk drives.”
The Flash Voyager GT is already available at a few retailers, which have listed the drive for a considerable US$390.