Corsair Voyager GTR 32GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Review

Test System & Drive Performance

Test System

The test system for all benchmarks is listed out below and utilized an SSD to ensure that the benchmarks aren’t bottle-necked by the OS drive. All benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running.

Intel LGA 1366 Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Core i7 920	Click Here
Motherboard	ASUS P6T Deluxe V1	Click Here
Memory	12GB OCZ Gold DDR3 1600MHz	Click Here
Video Card	ATI Radeon HD 5970	Click Here
Hard Drive	OCZ Vertex 30GB	Click Here
Power Supply	Corsair HX1000	Click Here
Operating System	Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit	Click Here

ATTO v2.41

The ATTO benchmark has been around for quite some time and is one of the
most widely used for measuring drive performance.

Benchmark Results: The Corsair Voyager GTR 32GB Drive did hit the 34MB/s reads very consistently and the writes actually hit over 29MB/s writes which is getting it done! This is definitely one of the fastest USB 2.0 flash drives we have used.

HD Tune Pro 4.01

HD Tune Pro 4.01 is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many
new features such as write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting,
folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file
benchmark.

Benchmark Results: On the HD Tune benchmark, the reads again were tearing it up around 35MB/s. The writes didn’t fare as well in this particular benchmark but honestly this benchmark seems to always report a little low. Hitting over 20MB/s is still very good.

SiSoftware Sandra2010

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting
Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. Sandra provides
most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about
your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

Benchmark Results: The reads again are hitting a peak of just over 34MB/s which is dead on Corsair’s published specifications.

Benchmark Results: Writes didn’t show as well here either but again were close to the 20MB/s mark which is still very quick for a flash drive. The best you can hope for on most drives is 10-15MB/s.

Trying to mix things up a bit we took a 2.12GB file and copied to and copied from the GTR drive. For this test we used a free application called Teracopy that replaces Windows move and copy functions and adds a little more functionality. Using this tool, we can objectively time the file transfer time and average speed without relying on an external timing device.

Writing to the drive yielded an average of 23MB/s and took 01:33.59 minutes. Reading from the drive showed an average of 31MB/s in 1:11.30 minutes. Timing manually using Windows copy took roughly the same amount of time. This is a good real world usage example showing the performance hitting near Corsair’s specifications and damn fast for a USB 2.0 drive.