Corsair Flash Voyager 4GB
One of the abilities of the Corsair Flash Voyager series is its water resistance capabilities. Although other manufacturers now offer waterproof thumb drives as well as Secure Digital flash cards, having a water resistance memory product can be important for safeguarding your data. When we had tested the Corsair Flash Voyager 512MB we plunged the drive into a glass full of water while it was sitting outside in Michigan's harsh winter with -15°C temperatures, and after we had pulled the drive out it managed to pass all of our tests and perform as good as new. For this review we plunged the Flash Voyager 4GB in another glass of water to check its water resistance.
As you can see from the pictures above, the Flash Voyager survived its tests thanks to its durable rubber shell. For the read and write performance testing of the Flash Voyager compared against other leading components, we used the following system below to run our various benchmarks.
| Hardware Components | |
| Processor: | Intel Pentium D 820 (2.80 GHz) |
| Motherboard: | Abit AW8-MAX v1.0 |
| Memory: | 2 x 512MB Corsair XMS2-5400UL |
| Graphics Card: | Leadtek PX7800GTX 256MB |
| Hard Drives: | Seagate 7200.9 SATA2 160GB |
| Optical Drives: | Sony DVD-RW & DVD-ROM |
| Power Supply: | Enermax Whisper II 535W SLI |
| Software Components | |
| Operating System: | FedoraCore4 |
| Linux Kernel: | 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4smp |
| GCC (GNU Compiler): | 4.0.0 |
| Graphics Driver: | NVIDIA 1.0-7676 |
| Xorg: | 6.8.2 |
For read benchmarking, we used hdparm with the -t parameter to perform timed disk reads on the flash media device. On the side of write testing, we used the Linux time command to record the length of time required to copy a 104.5MB file from the internal hard drive to the actual flash media. For results that are even more vigorous, we also timed how long it took to transfer 135 JPG picture files, with a total size of 106.2MB, from the hard drive over to the respective device. As with all of our benchmarks, we ran each benchmark three times and then recorded the average of the results. The other flash media devices we used to compare the Corsair Flash Voyager 4GB was OCZ's Rally 2GB, Transcend's JetFlash 110 1GB, and the Flash Voyager 512MB. During testing, all of these USB 2.0 flash drives were FAT32 formatted. On the next page are our results.