Corsair Flash Voyager GTX 128GB Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell July 15, 2014 Highlights-new, Pen Drives

To test the drive performance today we are using the new system we had built to our requirements by DINOPC. You can get specifications and read more on this system over here.

Before analysing these results, we advise you to read the Windows 7 and Windows 8 UASP information on the previous page.

Operating systems:
Windows 7 – 64 bit (just the Corsair Flash Voyager GTX128GB when indicated).
Windows 8.1 – 64 bit (all drives)

Comparison Products:
Corsair Voyager GS 128GB
Kingston DataTraveler HyperX Predator 512GB
Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 64GB
ADATA Nobility N005 Pro 64GB Flash Drive.
Kingston 64GB DT Ultimate Drive.
1TB USB 3.0 Toshiba HDD.

We perform each test multiple times to ensure that abnormalities don’t enter into the test results.

The next stage is to analyse the performance of the drives with some of the best software available online. Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s.

There is a rather telling performance difference between Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 with the UASP driver in action on the Gigabyte Z97 motherboard. Performance increases from 307 MB/s to 410.1 MB/s in the sequential read test for instance.

4K and 4K QD32 performance is also exceptionally high for a USB 3.0 flash drive. Compare against the older Patriot Supersonic Magnum 256Gb drive and you can see the gains achieved by using a fully fledged Solid State Drive controller.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

The Corsair Flash Voyager GTX 128GB is unquestionably top of the performance chart. With the UASP driver operating in Windows 8, performance is dramatically boosted to 459 MB/s and 348MB/s in the sequential read and write tests respectively.