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Corsair Flash Voyager Slider Review

11 Aug, 2012, 1:22 pm IST | by Anand Tuliani | USB Pen drives

USB Pen drives

Capless design with a retractable mechanism

Capless design with a retractable mechanism
Pull back to expose the USB connector

PRICE IN INDIA

832

TECH2 RATING

5.5

AVERAGE USER RATING

8.5

How we test

CONTACT

Corsair Memory Inc

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 1800 425 5464

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Performance
The rated sequential read and write speeds of the 8 GB and 16 GB variants of this drive are 70 MB/s and 20 MB/s respectively. The read speed of the 32 GB variant is 80 MB/s and the write is twice as fast. The 64 GB variant is the fastest with read and write speeds of a whopping 85 MB/s and 70 MB/s respectively. We plugged this drive into a USB 3.0 port on our Ivy Bridge test rig, and here’s what it logged.

CrystalDiskMark

CrystalDiskMark

 

 

 

CrystalDiskMark: This tool measures sequential read and write speeds using a set size of data and a specified number of loops. We set the data size to 500 MB and number of loops to 3. The sequential read and write speeds logged were 64 MB/s and 15 MB/s respectively. This was quite close to the rated speed, however speeds with multiple 512K and 4K chunks show that the drive would stagger when transferring multiple small files.

 

 SiSoft Sandra 2012

 

SiSoft Sandra 2012

 

 

 

SiSoft Sandra 2012:The nature of the File System benchmark in SiSoft Sandra is similar to that of CrystalDiskMark. The speeds that we got here were similar to those reported by CDM, however, the random write speed of 2.43 MB/s was disappointing.

ATTO Disk Benchmark

 

ATTO Disk Benchmark

 

 

 

ATTO Disk Benchmark: This tool also uses a set size of data and measures read and write speed using chunks of data ranging from 0.5 KB to 8 MB. Here, the maximum sequential read and write speeds were 67 MB/s and 15 MB/s respectively.

Real world file transfer: Here, we transferred 100 MB of assorted files to the drive and measured the speeds using a stopwatch. The speeds were similar to the synthetic tests: 58 MB/s read and 6 MB/s write.

 

Verdict and Price in India
The 8 GB Corsair Flash Voyager Slider retails for Rs. 832. An ordinary USB 2.0 flash drive of the same capacity can be purchased for around Rs. 280 today. For the price of this drive you could easily buy a 16 GB USB 2.0 drive and still have Rs 300 left. The choice here is between speed and capacity. If your PC or laptop has a USB 3.0 port and you want read speed almost five times faster than a USB 2.0 drive, buy the Voyager Slider. But if high capacity at a low price is what you prefer or if your PC doesn’t have a USB 3.0 port, then buy a USB 2.0 flash drive.

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