Corsair Voyager Mini USB-Stick (torture)

Category : Storage

Published by Marc Büchel on 23.10.08

With testing the Voyager Mini, Corsair sets up a challenge for us. If we tested this little and sweet rubbery stick only on performance and design the result would be a very boring review but therefore we thought about some nice and funny new torture testing methods for USB-Sticks.

First of all we thank Corsair for providing us with this test sample.





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A closer view/Performance

With the Flash Voyager Mini series Corsair has very compact USB sticks in petto which as we will show in the further tests has a very high physical load capacity.



One can get a Flash Voyager Mini with either 4 GByte or 8 GByte of memory.



Becuase the four or eight gigabyte of memory are on an area just to fingernails small it is easy to create an also very small chassis out of rubber which is very robust.


Performance

Corsair Voyager Mini	sThroughput	Access time
Sequential read	19.17 MByte/s	0.41 ms
Sequential write	3.25 MByte/s	2.4 ms
Random read	9.23 MByte/s	0.81 ms
Random write	0.062 MByte/s	124 ms

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Special operations

First of all we put the Flash Voyager Mini unter a chairleg and put a 80 kilogramm person on the chair.




Afterwards we give water into a pan and warm it up until it cooks. At this point we put the Voyager Mini into the boiling hot water and grant him a comfy bath for one minute.




To cool the little hothead down again we put it into the fridge carefully and let him in there for an hour.




Because the poor little stick had to lie under a chairleg on the floor and got dirty there we nit-picky Swiss want to clean it thouroughly and put it into the washing machine at 95°C.
Unfortunately we weren't able to film this because one just can't see the stick in the washing machine.

After all these tests we wanted to see if the Flash Voyager Mini still works. Therefore we plugged it into the computer again and worte files onto it until the capacity limit was reached. During this procedure there were no failures.



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Conclusion

As we showed Corsair in no way overexaggerates when they say that the Flash Voyager Mini is very robust. Therefore we put it under a chairlege with a 80 kilogramm man on it, we put it for a minute into boiling water, afterwards we put i for an hour into the fridge and a last we washed it in a washing machine for an hour at 95°C. All these tortures it survived without a scratch.

Overall the Flash Voyager Mini is a companion in every circumstance and to destroy it you would need to put into a microwave oven or on a railway track.
With a sequential write performance of 3.25 MByte/s it can take a pretty long time to fill the Flash Voyager Mini up at once.

On can buy the Corsair Flash Voyager Mini at Digitec for CHF 26.- (4 GByte) and CHF 34.- (8 GByte).



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Author: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch