Corsair Releases “World’s Fastest” 128GB Flashdrive

August 13th, 2009 • Featured, Hardware
Tags: 128GB, flashdrive, performance, thumbdrive, usb

Corsair, longtime manufacturer of computer memory, has announced today what they claim to be the world’s fastest 128GB USB flashdrive to date – the Flash Voyager GT.

Corsair claims that their Flash Voyager GT can read at speeds of up to 32MB/sec and can write at 28MB/sec – apparently limited only by the 480MB/s throughput of USB2.0. The secret to the performance of the Voyager is its unique architecture, which uses a dual-controller to achieve above and beyond what more expensive, and smaller capacity SLC NAND flash memory can achieve using the cheaper, but considerably slower MLC NAND memory.

Despite a smart manufacturing technique, you pay what you get for. $399 is what it’ll take to get your paws on one of these impressive flashdrives.

I’ve got a feeling a high performance and high capacity drive like this could be ideal for users who want to boot a persistent OS off their flashdrive (such as with Ubuntu) and carry it around with them wherever they go.

It comes with a 10-year warranty, and is available from distributors worldwide.

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