Corsair 16GB Flash Survivor USB 2.0 Flash Drive - CMFUSBSRVR-16GB

The Corsair 8GB Flash Survivor USB 2.0 Flash Drive is a great product 4 the price & the offered durability. It is enclosed in airplane steel holds up 2 8 GB. While the upload is slow, the price, style, durability & storage space exceeds this minor flaw. Hands down, this is great value 4 the price! I highly recommend.

this flashdrive is awesome
the build quality is so good that i had no trouble demonstrating it 2 my coworkers by throwing the thing around in a bad way

the speed of the flashdrive is dissapointing though - it is noticeably slower than any of the other ones i own even when freshly reformatted

Great size & can travel in my lunch box without fear of a liquid leak killing my data.

User Profile
Here's a little background about what I use flash drives for. I use a flash drive 4 three reasons: keep all of my documents on me (school, personal, business, web page design, programming, what have you), keep a good reference library with me, & 2 run some portable apps.

Pros
*Looks cool
*Very strong casing. I suspect this flash drive could even survive an excursion in the pressure cooker. There are lots of reviews out there where people put this through the washer, run it over, hit it with golf clubs, drop in the pool 4 days, etc & it seems 2 do really well there.
*Portable applications run well on the drive
*Comes with keychain stuff, so it is nice 2 just keep the flashdrive on my keychain with no special usb stick case required
*The obviously larger storage capacity
*10 year warrenty (keep those reciepts scanned into your computer :) )

Cons
*The speed is just average 4 usb 2.0 flash drives: not horrible, but not excellent. For the price, I'd like excellent.

Final Thoughts
This was a good, worthwhile purchase. I expect this could be my primary flash drive some years until flash drives come in such a large capacity that they are essentially mini-back-up hard drives :) I'm sure this could be useful 4 10 years or so if I really wanted it 2 be. The design seems especially nice if you happen 2 work in a hazardous place like a chemical plant, power plant, construction site, or some large scale manufacturing place or are especially prone 2 destroying flash drives.

I purchased two of these. One works fine; the other does not. It asks 2 be formated when I plug it into my computer. This happened on the second day of use. Followed the instructions on the website 2 reformat the drive, when the standard methods failed. No luck, was told by Corsair that I have 2 send in the drive 2 be analyzed. They have had the drive 4 a week now & still no response. I have little experience with this company, but this does not bode well.

Flash Survivor is an extremely durable, water resistant, drop-tested flash USB memory drive. By design it is perfect 4 transporting valuable data such as personal files, photos & applications without having 2 worry about damage or loss of data due 2 the elements.