The Corsair Flash Survivor GT isn’t your standard flash drive. It’s not meant to be the smallest one on the market. Corsair has instead focused on providing a product that will withstand the test of time and any weather or damage you may face. Heading over to the Flash Survivor GT website, we see the following features:

• Encased in extremely strong CNC-milled, anodized aircraft-grade aluminum.

• Water resistant to 200M through the use of a EPDM waterproof seal.
• Protected from vibration or impact damage through the use of a molded shock dampening collar.
• Plug-&-Play with any USB 2.0 certified peripheral computer port (backward compatible with USB 1.1).
• USB extension cable and Dog Tags included.
• Protected by a Limited 10-year Warranty.

The ten year warranty is determined by the wear level. Each integrated chip has a finite number of write cycles before it fails. With the Flash Survivor GT that number is 100,000 cycles. For the drive to fail in ten years you must write on each IC 27.4 times per day: 100,000 divided by 10 yrs divided by 365 days per year. That means for the 32GB model, you need to transfer 875GB per day to the Flash Survivor GT for it to fail before the warranty is up.

Details of the drive performance aren’t listed on Corsair’s website, but some searching reveals the theoretical maximum read speed of 30MB/s and write speed of 16MB/s. We’ll test this out in a moment.

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