Plug-And-Play: Corsair Flash Survivor 16GB USB Flash Drive

Posted by: Flare Rico on Monday, September 8th, 2008

USB provides an expandable, hot-pluggable plug-and-play serial interface that ensures a low-cost connection for peripheral devices such as keyboards, mice, joysticks, printers, scanners, storage devices, modems, and video conferencing cameras.

Migration to USB is recommended for all peripheral devices that use legacy ports such as PS/2, serial, and parallel ports. Corsair Flash Survivor is a USB Flash Drive that provides new solutions for your storage dilemmas.

Compatible with USB 2.0 and Backward Compatible with USB 1.1

Flash Survivor by Corsair is an extremely durable, water resistant, drop-tested flash USB memory drive. It is perfect for transporting valuable data such as personal files, photos and applications without having to worry about damage or loss of data.

The device is encased in an enormously strong, CNC-milled, anodized aircraft-grade aluminum case. It is also water resistant to 200M through the use of EPDM waterproof seal. Furthermore, the Corsair Flash Survivor 16GB USB flash drive has protection from vibration or impact damage with its molded shock dampening collar.

More so, the Corsair Flash Survivor flash drive is compatible with any USB 2.0 computer port and backward compatible with USB 1.1. USB has a maximum bandwidth of 12 Mbps for USB 1.0 and 1.1 and 480 Mbps for Hi-Speed USB 2.0. Up to 127 peripheral devices can be attached to the bus, and USB 1.1 devices can plug into USB 2.0 ports. Fast devices can use the full bandwidth, while low-speed ones can use a 1.5 Mbps sub channel. Since the Corsair Flash Survivor is USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 compatible, this storage device provides seamless data exchange between different Operating Systems (OS) including Windows (e.g. Windows 2000/XP/Vista), Mac or Linux.

Also, this flash drive uses plug-and-play technology. Just plug it in and you’re ready to use it. This feature, combined with easy-to-reach ports on the front of the computer case, makes the USB drive an ideal option for transferring data speedily. Corsair Flash Survivor 16GB USB Flash Drive Additionally, the Corsair Flash Survivor has USB bootable supported function for some operating systems. For example, Windows XP embedded Service Pack 2 has a new embedded enabling feature called USB Boot which allows users to build a Windows XP image that boots from a USB flash drive. Another feature of the Corsair Flash Survivor is the activity LED. This activity LED is used to indicate data transfer activities.

The new Corsair Flash Survivor 16GB Drive is a great achievement with regards to performance and speed. It is also lightweight and very durable, thus making this device very ideal.