Corsair Flash Voyager 16 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive CMFUSB2.0-16GB

by Corsair

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000LXTUT8
• Item model number: CMFUSB2.0-16GB
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (434 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #28 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > External Data Storage > USB Flash Drives
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Capacity: 16GB

The Corsair Flash Voyager family of USB drives is rugged, stylish, compact and reliable making them ideal for transporting MP3's, digital images, presenations and more. Flash Voyager drives are fully Plug and Play with most operating systems and backward compatible with USB 1.1.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

304 of 320 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 16GB? No it's not to big., June 7, 2007

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Nikk Gilbert (Japan) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Corsair Flash Voyager 16 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive CMFUSB2.0-16GB (Electronics)

I also own the 8 and 32 and 64GB voyager, all are every bit as reliable as the 16GB drive.

Over the course of the last 8 years I've had a number of USB drives. Iomega, Corsair, Apacer, PNY, Sony and SanDisk. I've upgraded each time I felt the storage increase justified the cost. I work in information technology so they are tools more than toys, anyway on to the review. This 16GB drive is massive and well worth the money. I've used this flash drive in all sorts of systems and also have a .bat file that allows me to sync my data. I also keep an encrypted container on the drive, my point? Whether you are transferring data, encrypting data, saving data, or syncing data it works quite well. I also use some U3 applications like Firefox portable which allows you to run the browser from your flash drive and keep personal info off the local computer. Once again the drive works flawlessly.
I do agree that the protective rubber coating around the drive can make it somewhat difficult to plug in multiple USB devices, but Corsair does provide a USB cable extension which helps solves the problem. Another excellent feature is that this is one of the few USB drives that the cap stays on very tight. I've been asked by a couple of people what I use for encrypting my flash drive. The best software I've come across is called True Crypt (just Google it, it's an org site) it's a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.


*******Important note on the 64GB Voyager*******
The 64 GB Voyager is 9 CM long without the cap and 2.7CM wide.
The 8, 16 and 32GB Voyagers are 6.5 CM without the cap and 2.3CM wide.

While it doesn't sound like a big difference it is when you're expecting them to be the same size.
I uploaded a picture in the product gallery so the size difference could be seen.


Update August 2009
An impressive 16GB flash drive and with zero issues since purchasing it.

102 of 107 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Capacious and Very Fast, November 8, 2007

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Michael A. Campbell - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corsair Flash Voyager 16 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive CMFUSB2.0-16GB (Electronics)

I purchased this drive from Amazon recently and tested it under both Mac OS X Tiger and Windows ME. In both cases, I saw excellent read speed but slow, slow write speed (1 MB/s to 1.4 MB/s, an order of magnitude lower than advertized). I was very disappointed at the poor performance to say the least.

Before returning the drive, I decided to test it under Windows XP. Wow, what a difference. The same drive, under Windows XP, is a speed demon. I am now satisfied that the drive behaves much more closely to it's advertized specs. For read speed, I am seeing something in the area of 30 MB/s, which is excellent. For write speed I am seeing roughly 7 MB/s. This is a little slower than advertized, but nonetheless, an excellent speed.

So, this is a great memory stick as long as you are using it under Windows XP (don't have Vista so can't comment, but I expect that performance under Vista would be similar). For earlier versions of Windows (9x and ME) though, be forewarned. Write performance is not good. Similarly, for Mac OS X Tiger be forewarned. BTW, for Mac OS X, I did try formatting the stick for HFS+ (the native Mac OS X format), but it made only a marginal difference.

77 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very rugged, July 17, 2006

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d.hawk (Austin) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Corsair Flash Voyager 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive CMFUSB2.0-4GB (Personal Computers)

I have this drive and last night I washed it in a pair of jeans, then unknowingly dried it. I figured it was toast for sure, but after plugging it in, it came up perfectly along with all my data. This thing can take a beating.

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