Corsair announced new flash media at this years CES and amongst their new product line-up is their Voyager GT. Though not a replacement for their original Voyager series, the GTs have one specific goal: performance.

The Corsair Flash Voyager family of USB drives is rugged, stylish and compact, making them ideal for transporting MP3s, digital images, presentations and more. Flash Voyager drives are fully Plug and Play with most operating systems and are backward compatible with USB 1.1.

With the storage market expanding at a breakneck pace and solid state drives taking center space, people's focus has very much been on internal storage solutions. There has been very little news regarding one of the mainstays of many users' daily file transfer needs: the ubiquitous flash drive.

They do still have the 16Gb Voyager, though, for only $AU110 delivered; Australian shoppers who'd like to order one can

The performance-minded Flash Voyager GTs are back and bouncing around with USB 3.0, still durable as ever before. Unless you're in a war zone or objects just happen to spontaneously combust around you, these drives should have no problem lasting a good many years.

Fast read speeds; Also fast write speeds (64GB; Durable as ever; 5-year warranty

Synthetic writes are far from real-world performance; 32GB writes barely faster than non-GT model; Blocks vertically-stacked USB ports; Lanyard; extension cable not included

For a USB 2.0 16gigs with 10 years of warranty+ extension cable and a lanyard and which is "shockproof" and durable, you got yourself one of those drives which will be with you for many years to come. Corsair also comes with a good replacement track record as well.