The Ultimate USB Flash Drive - Advanced Features By Mike Clements, on August 23rd, 2010
Corsair has provided a utility that helps users create the Ultimate Bootable USB Flash Drive. One outstanding feature of this tool is that it is very simple for end users to add advanced functionality to the tool once the basic installation is complete.
A drive like the Flash Survivor GTR, pictured below, can become a wonderful tool in a few easy steps. An ISO image is an image of an optical disk and this tool has the ability to boot from a bootable ISO image thus eliminating the need to burn a CD or DVD. Following the directions in this guide, the user simply downloads the desired ISO file, extracts it to the USB drive, edits three lines of text, and the tool is ready to use.
There are many options that an user can add to the basic version of this tool. Most Linux distributions can be downloaded as ISO files. With this tool, users can boot to Linux from their drive which amounts to a pocket sized portable operating system.
Flash Voyager GTR Test By Michael Valera, on August 23rd, 2010
Moving data is still an arduous task. It's gotten better, though, with the advent of fast flash drives, and there's none faster than the new Flash Voyager GTR. The Flash Voyager GTR is just awesome. How awesome? In our lab tests, we compared the 128GB version against a major competitor's 128GB fast flash drive. Instead of relying on artificial benchmarks, though, we decided to move some real files back and forth and see what kind of speeds we'd get:
The performance speaks for itself. The Flash Voyager GTR is nearly six times as fast when copying documents, and nearly twice as fast with everything else!
This kind of speed means less time waiting for files to copy, and more time using a USB drive as it was intended. Put your favorite movies or your entire MP3 collection onto your laptop in minutes. Make a bootable USB drive with your favorite Operating Systems on it. Copy all your favorite programs to it, some of which can be run from the drive itself! With speed like this, an external hard drive can be reserved for large file storage and left plugged in at home. There's no need to lug around that heavy external drive with its power brick when the Flash Voyager GTR easily outperforms it.
Use it as a hard drive, an OS loader, a media jukebox, or whatever you like-the Flash Voyager GTR will do it with speed to spare.
Graham Hoyland explores the world with Corsair By Jessie Lawrence, on August 23rd, 2010
So, you think you put your PC components through some extreme conditions? Maybe you overclock your RAM or CPU a bit. Maybe you've accidentally put your Flash Voyager or Flash Survivor USB flash drives through the wash. Maybe you even dabble a bit in liquid nitrogen. All of this is pretty extreme until you see the environments where famous explorer Graham Hoyland is using his Corsair hardware. Here's a hint - Mount Everest. Watch the video below for details:
How to Create the Ultimate Bootable USB Flash Drive By Jessie Lawrence, on August 20th, 2010
Let's face it. Floppy drives are so 1992 and CDs and DVDs don't conveniently fit into most people's pockets. USB flash drives are the ultimate in pocket sized storage and the possibilities for using them are virtually limitless. However, creating a flash drive that is a convenient and bootable tool is not as easy as making a bootable floppy or bootable optical disk. That is, until now.
The Corsair Flash Survivor GTR is already an outstanding drive with superior durability and performance.