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by: Anonymous on 11/23/2009
This is exactly what happened to my flash voyager after about 6 months. I've been using it naked for another 2 years though without mishap.
Corsair by: Anonymous on 11/23/2009
I have the 32 GB version of this Corsair Flash Voyager. It currently is not working due to being corrupted where when trying to read or write files off of it, I recieve a write-protected message. It appears corrupt, and have had someone who works in our IT support team here confirm that it is indeed corrupt and should be sent to Corsair.

Also, it has become unglued as expressed in this article which sucks too. I imagine it became unglued due to the flash drive attached to my key chain and the body heat affecting the glue from being in my pocket.
by: Anonymous on 11/22/2009
Patriot all the way !!! So fast ;)
Same here! by: Anonymous on 11/22/2009
I had a 8Gb Voyager for about 1 year, took it with me almost daily to work. After half a year of usage the rubber cap would not stay in its place anymore. Then the rubber around the USB connector started to fell off causing it to bend in the end. The USB stick was dead forever after this, got it RMA'd but now I'm not using it that much. It's a pity since it looked very "rugged" to me and that's why I bought it in the first place.
No Prob with my 2GB stick by: Anonymous on 11/21/2009
Had mine for 2 and a half years now no problem what-so-ever. I will stick with Corsair.

IMO Corsair = Quality!!!!! Period!!!!!
by: epobirs on 11/21/2009
I've had three 8 GB Voyager units that have gone everywhere with me for almost two years. All are going strong.

The only one I've lost use of to date is a 2 GB unit of a brand I cannot recall that decided it didn't want to play anymore. I suspect it sensed I was soon going to regard a 2 GB flash drive as not worth keeping on my person. I expect my 8 GB sticks to start dying as soon as the 16 GB begin appearing for around $20 and become too enticing to avoid.

To think, it doesn't seem that long ago that I couldn't install an 8 GB hard drive without using multiple partitions.
by: Anonymous on 11/20/2009
I've had three Voyagers, a 1GB, a 4GB, and a 16GB. The old 1GB stick came-unglued several years ago. I kept on using it anyway, without gluing it back together. Eventually, a cat broke it as it was plugged into a front USB port.

I still managed to tape it together well enough to get my Keepass database file off of it. I only buy Corsair thumb drives because of it.
This article is dead on! by: Anonymous on 11/20/2009
I bought this same drive when the first were released from Corsair, after 4 weeks of using it, I noticed that the rubber felt a little loose and "wiggled" a little bit on the USB stick. After the 5th week, it totally came off the drive. I contacted Corsair and they RMA'd my drive and after a 2 months of use, same issue... after that I said forget it and got a normal USB key. Where has Corsair quality control gone with this one?
by: Kyocera on 11/20/2009
I had a much more frustrating experience with Kingston.

One year ago I bought a USB memory key and after 3 months of very sporadic use, the key malfunctioned.
(At first it worked only in USB ports that gripped very tightly the connector part, after a month not even in those; even later it helped if you somewhat pressed it in the direction of the internal connector side.)

Anyway, after 5 months it was not possible to use it.
The service (under warranty) was not nice (just to get rid of the client).

I took the key to the garbage can.

And I'll never again buy anything from Kingston.
I hope that the factory enjoyed loosing a client for 3 dollars in profit.
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