The tribe has spoken: Corsair Survivor GT USB flash is wicked fast

Survivor_gtFor the mobile mountaineer (or Survivor contestant) in your life: we have Corsair’s new 8 GB Survivor GT USB flash drive. When closed it looks a bunch like a waterproof matchbox and with its anodized aircraft-grade aluminum, it would work for matches if you could fit ‘em in there. There’s a waterproof seal that keeps your data dry at up to (or is that down to?) 200 meters. I doubt many of our readers scuba-dive so let’s just say you could chuck one in your neighbors pool and not worry. They might if it gets clogged in the filter, so don’t actually do it, please.

So we’ve established that it can take a beating, but how does it actually peform? Techware labs ran it through some tests and while it didn’t meet all of Corsair’s bodacious claims, it still kicked some bandwidth booty. They moved a 279 MB and a 1.63 GB test file to the Survivor GT and a 2 GB Kingmax drive using the same test rig. The files took 162 and 865 seconds to move to the Kingmax respectively but only 35 and 175 seconds to the Corsair. The Kingmax device is cheaper than the Survivor GT, so I would have liked to have seen a comparison with more comparably priced devices, but still, those are some excellent results. Some online browsing found the 8 GB USB drive plus included dog tags priced around $140, but isn’t your tribe member worth it?

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