Tech Quickie - Corsair Survivor Stealth USB Flash Drive - Please Leave Feedback
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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316 words · ~1 min read
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This is my original Corsair Survivor Drive. It's pretty good. It served me
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well for 3 years. However, there's a new kit on the block. The Survivor Stealth
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takes everything that was good about the original Survivor and kicks it up a
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notch. The anodized aluminum housing looks stunning in a militarystyle matte
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black, and the molded shot collars have been significantly thickened for better
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durability. The key ring has also been upgraded to make it less likely to wear
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out over time. Once we open up the drive, we find the USB3 super speed
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interface, an activity LED, and the EPDM
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seal that makes this drive waterproof to up to 200 m
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deep. Overall, the housing is incredibly rugged and can handle up to 400 gs of
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impact. Impact ratings are fascinating, but unless you actually test
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them, they're totally meaningless.
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impact tests are great, but we also wanted to evaluate just how waterproof
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the Survivor Stealth is. The answer, very waterproof.
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And no matter what your drive has been through, see this is the one we did our
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throwing tests on, it is still ideal for
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covert ops where you don't want to get recognized. So you got to get in and out
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in a hurry. So we're using the USB 3
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transfer speeds in order to copy a 1 gig file of what you can see is clearly
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secret stuff off of a laptop. Now the
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drive will work in USB 2 mode. However,
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it will just copy slower. So, it's fully backwards compatible. You just won't get
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the benefit of super speed USB 3. So, you can see we're copying at over 50
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megabytes per second. And we are out of
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here. This has been another Techquickie on the Corsair Survivor Stealth. I'm
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Lionus and I hope to see you guys next time.