Standard USB 3.0 flash drives are fast. Flash Voyager GT USB 3.0 is touted to be even faster with its data transfer rates. The portability and convenience of USB drives has always meant putting up with delays while waiting for files to copy, but with USB 3.0, that should be thing of the past.

It's hard to get through a checkout line at even the grocery store nowadays without seeing some rendition of flash drive for sale. There are a dizzying array of sizes, colors and shapes with performance that generally runs from downright atrocious to decent.

Corsair designed the Flash Voyager GTR with best in class performance in mind and we can they achieved this goal. Except for the odd Flash Memory Toolkit write benchmark, which was promptly discredited by the actual real-world performance test, the GTR was constantly faster than every other drives...

We have already ran a number of benchmarks against Corsair's Flash Voyager GT 32GB flash drive, which can be found in Testing Out Linux File-Systems On A USB Flash Drive . In that article we benchmarked the FAT32, EXT3, EXT4, XFS, Btrfs, and ReiserFS file-systems on this very flash drive.

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.

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.