The Video Review of the Flash Voyager GTX from Corsair

I recently received a request from a vendor to review a USB thumb drive, and I have to admit that I was skeptical at first. The product notes often claim outlandish features like "SSD performance now in convenient travel size," which made me wonder if this would be a wild goose chase. However, I decided to give it a shot and see how the Flash Voyager GTX from Corsair performed.

The Flash Voyager GTX is a USB thumb drive that boasts impressive specs, including an attractive metal housing with a little cap on it. While capacities for these drives have increased dramatically over the past few years, this one's 256 gigs performance hasn't scaled in quite the same fashion. As a result, massive amounts of storage that can be carried around in your back pocket become impractical for large files, as it takes so long to copy and paste them back and forth.

The Flash Voyager GTX features an SSD controller, which is what sets it apart from traditional USB drives. This is where the performance really comes into play. The better controller gives the Voyager GTX a real edge on more traditional drives in terms of read speeds. In our single file transfer test with a 6 gig file, the Voyager GTX performed impressively, outpacing even more traditional USB 3 drives. Similarly, when we ran our medium-size single file test, the Voyager GTX once again took the lead, exhibiting this weird fast bursting behavior that allowed it to read a 1 gig file faster than we could start and stop the timer.

However, things take a turn for the better when we run our large file transfer tests. In our multi-file test with over 2.1 megabytes of photos, the Voyager GTX landed squarely between the other options for reads, getting very close to the performance of an SSD. While it may not be as fast as an SSD in this particular scenario, the Flash Voyager GTX is still a significant improvement over traditional USB drives.

So what does this mean? Simply put, the Flash Voyager GTX is a great option if you want to carry around a bunch of data with you in a form factor that's more convenient than an SSD on a dongle. It may not be as fast as an SSD, but it's still super cool and offers impressive performance for its size. If you're looking for a middle ground between the convenience of a USB drive and the speed of an SSD, the Flash Voyager GTX is definitely worth considering.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of the Flash Voyager GTX. While it may not be the fastest option out there, it's certainly one of the most convenient and offers impressive specs for its size. If you're in the market for a new USB thumb drive, I would highly recommend giving this one a try.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennormally I'll get a request from a vendor to do a USB thumb drive review and I'm like but every once in a while the product notes will say something outlandish like SSD performance now in convenient travel size and I kind of go okay send it over so here we are welcome to my video about the flash Voyager GTX from Corsair the Jazz mini phone and tablet stand from Cooler Master is now available in a variety of cool colors from these great retailers click now to learn more now it's no secret that a USB thumb drive and an SSD are not fundamentally that different there's an interface like SATA or USB there's a controller chip and there's Nan flash so why does comparing the performance of an SSD to your typical USB drive feel about like pitting Batman against a one-legged dog in a cage match what are the actual differences great question first up is Flash chip quality betterand is faster and lasts for more right Cycles but is also much more expensive second is parallelization ssds have more flash chips to read from and write to and accessing more chips at the same time within a drive is kind of like accessing more drives at a time in raid zero within a PC and third is controller complexity SSD controllers are much faster and use more advanced reading and writing algorithms to coax the best possible performance and Longevity out of the attached flash so that third point is what Corsair changed they went and put an SSD controller in this thumb drive's attractive metal housing with a little cap on it and stuff because while capacities for these drives have increased dramatically over the past few years this one's 256 gigs performance hasn't scaled in quite the same fashion so that massive amount of storage that you can carry around in your back pocket becomes impractical for large files anyway because it takes so long to copy C them back and forth okay then so how does this one perform then lus well great question again we did three different real world tests a single 6 gig file transfer a 1 gig single file transfer and a multi file transfer of over 2,1 megab photos and the answer is about as expected for very small files the better controller gives the Voyager GTX a real Edge on more traditional drives uh in terms of right speeds but makes less of a difference for reads with our medium-size single file test we noticed that it's got this weird fast bursting behavior that allowed it to read a 1 gig file faster than we could even start and stop the timer and then write at pretty much the same speed as our SSD leaving a more traditional even performance oriented USB 3 Drive behind and hanging right up there with an SSD and finally in our large file test the Voyager GTX landed squarely between the other options for rights and much closer to the SSD for reads making the conclusion for this drive actually very straightforward is it as fast as an SSD no not exactly but it's still super cool and if you want to carry a bunch of data around with you in a form factor that's more convenient than an SSD on a dongle but less convenient perhaps than a slim drive that doesn't interfere with the surrounding ports then the Voyager GTX is your middle ground in terms of the actual size and shape as well as in terms of performance thanks for watching guys like or dislike the video according to your feelings as always the link to the pricing for this product is in the video description along with a link to our Forum where you can discuss it away from the typical YouTube comment rigar roll and also in the video description is a support link you can buy a cool t-shirt like this one become a contributor or even just change your Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code all that stuff helps us out a lot thanks again for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already henormally I'll get a request from a vendor to do a USB thumb drive review and I'm like but every once in a while the product notes will say something outlandish like SSD performance now in convenient travel size and I kind of go okay send it over so here we are welcome to my video about the flash Voyager GTX from Corsair the Jazz mini phone and tablet stand from Cooler Master is now available in a variety of cool colors from these great retailers click now to learn more now it's no secret that a USB thumb drive and an SSD are not fundamentally that different there's an interface like SATA or USB there's a controller chip and there's Nan flash so why does comparing the performance of an SSD to your typical USB drive feel about like pitting Batman against a one-legged dog in a cage match what are the actual differences great question first up is Flash chip quality betterand is faster and lasts for more right Cycles but is also much more expensive second is parallelization ssds have more flash chips to read from and write to and accessing more chips at the same time within a drive is kind of like accessing more drives at a time in raid zero within a PC and third is controller complexity SSD controllers are much faster and use more advanced reading and writing algorithms to coax the best possible performance and Longevity out of the attached flash so that third point is what Corsair changed they went and put an SSD controller in this thumb drive's attractive metal housing with a little cap on it and stuff because while capacities for these drives have increased dramatically over the past few years this one's 256 gigs performance hasn't scaled in quite the same fashion so that massive amount of storage that you can carry around in your back pocket becomes impractical for large files anyway because it takes so long to copy C them back and forth okay then so how does this one perform then lus well great question again we did three different real world tests a single 6 gig file transfer a 1 gig single file transfer and a multi file transfer of over 2,1 megab photos and the answer is about as expected for very small files the better controller gives the Voyager GTX a real Edge on more traditional drives uh in terms of right speeds but makes less of a difference for reads with our medium-size single file test we noticed that it's got this weird fast bursting behavior that allowed it to read a 1 gig file faster than we could even start and stop the timer and then write at pretty much the same speed as our SSD leaving a more traditional even performance oriented USB 3 Drive behind and hanging right up there with an SSD and finally in our large file test the Voyager GTX landed squarely between the other options for rights and much closer to the SSD for reads making the conclusion for this drive actually very straightforward is it as fast as an SSD no not exactly but it's still super cool and if you want to carry a bunch of data around with you in a form factor that's more convenient than an SSD on a dongle but less convenient perhaps than a slim drive that doesn't interfere with the surrounding ports then the Voyager GTX is your middle ground in terms of the actual size and shape as well as in terms of performance thanks for watching guys like or dislike the video according to your feelings as always the link to the pricing for this product is in the video description along with a link to our Forum where you can discuss it away from the typical YouTube comment rigar roll and also in the video description is a support link you can buy a cool t-shirt like this one become a contributor or even just change your Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code all that stuff helps us out a lot thanks again for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already he\n"