normally I'll get a request from a vendor to do a USB thumb drive review
and I'm
like but every once in a while the product notes will say something
outlandish like SSD performance now in
convenient travel size and I kind of go okay send it over so here we are welcome
to my video about the flash Voyager GTX from
Corsair
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it's no secret that a USB thumb drive and an SSD are not fundamentally that
different there's an interface like SATA or USB there's a controller chip and
there's Nan flash so why does comparing the performance of an SSD to your
typical USB drive feel about like pitting Batman against a one-legged dog
in a cage match what are the actual differences great question first up is
Flash chip quality betterand is faster and lasts for more right Cycles but is
also much more expensive second is parallelization ssds have more flash
chips to read from and write to and accessing more chips at the same time
within a drive is kind of like accessing more drives at a time in raid zero
within a PC and third is controller complexity SSD controllers are much
faster and use more advanced reading and writing algorithms to coax the best
possible performance and Longevity out of the attached flash so that third
point is what Corsair changed they went and put an SSD controller in this thumb
drive's attractive metal housing with a little cap on it and stuff because while
capacities for these drives have increased dramatically over the past few
years this one's 256 gigs performance
hasn't scaled in quite the same fashion so that massive amount of storage that
you can carry around in your back pocket becomes impractical for large files
anyway because it takes so long to copy C them back and forth okay then so how
does this one perform then lus well great question again we did three
different real world tests a single 6 gig file transfer a 1 gig single file
transfer and a multi file transfer of over 2,1 megab photos and the answer is
about as expected for very small files the better controller gives the Voyager
GTX a real Edge on more traditional drives uh in terms of right speeds but
makes less of a difference for reads with our medium-size single file test we
noticed that it's got this weird fast bursting behavior that allowed it to
read a 1 gig file faster than we could even start and stop the timer and then
write at pretty much the same speed as our SSD leaving a more traditional even
performance oriented USB 3 Drive behind and hanging right up there with an SSD
and finally in our large file test the Voyager GTX landed squarely between the
other options for rights and much closer to the SSD for reads making the
conclusion for this drive actually very straightforward is it as fast as an SSD
no not exactly but it's still super cool
and if you want to carry a bunch of data around with you in a form factor that's
more convenient than an SSD on a dongle but less convenient perhaps than a slim
drive that doesn't interfere with the surrounding ports then the Voyager GTX
is your middle ground in terms of the actual size and shape as well as in
terms of performance thanks for watching guys like or dislike the video according
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