News - Corsair to launch speedy 128GB Flash Voyager GT pen drive

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Is this the world's fastest high-capacity USB flash drive?

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Read more.

Bah, Intel SSD in an external enclosure seems a considerbly better investment if this is anywhere close to £300.

Available to pre-order
http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=1056168

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Originally Posted by Chris P

Available to pre-order
http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=1056168

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http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s..._aint_easy.jpg
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Given that it's USB so essentially limited to 30MB/s anyway, I'd suggest a 2.5" drive in a lightweight enclosure as being a very acceptable compromise considering the costs...

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Originally Posted by Chris P

Available to pre-order
http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=1056168

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Do the UK residents a favor Chris and don't allow Scan to sell these to anyone in the UK goverment!

hmmm, this + this < £200. What can I do with my £83 change... ;)

Would have been better with a USB and eSata connector.

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Originally Posted by scaryjim

hmmm, this + this < £200. What can I do with my £83 change... ;)

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Get an 8GB USB drive to make up the difference? :p

way too expensive. needs an eSATA connector to be interesting

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Originally Posted by PeterStoba

Get an 8GB USB drive to make up the difference? :p

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As I understand it (according to this Hexus review, anyway!) OCZ quote their capacities in approximate Binary format rather than decimal, so the OCZ 120GB SSD has an actual storage capacity of 128,000,000,000 bytes.

But frankly the prices for this type of capacity are way too high (and as Hexus say in their review today, you're better off waiting for USB3.0 anyway...)

USB3.0 (Or USB Ultraspeed as i think they like to call it) will only make a difference if the controller in the pen drive is capable of pushing more data, and the flash memory chips used are fast enough.

Somehow I doubt either of those are the case.