Took delivery of 2 Corsair 2GB flash drives yesterday. Dang! These things
are much smaller than my 2004 Crucial Gizmo 256MB (and it is pretty small)
FD. These Corsair FDs are labled "Voyager" and come with a neat
rubber-like covering (blue/black) that has a better 'grip-quotient' than
the Crucial. Has nice lanyards too! The Corsair devices are also narrower
than Crucial. Speed? Much faster than the 2004 test stick. Both sticks
did come blank (as far as I could peek/test), so the "U3" business appears
to be not present. I hit them both with both Eraser 5.82 and the Windows
Defrag tool. Both ended up at 1.918GB free space. I do not have any tools
to look for "hidden partitions" so I'll just write off the 82MB difference
as mfg. tolerance at this point......... :)
I am pleased, and, at ~$14.99 apiece from Newegg, think this is a good deal.
Thank you for all your comments, suggestions, and counsel.
In a couple of day, I'll share thoughts about the new Crucial sticks that
are still in transit.
I've studied the U3 business and read some of the TrueCrypt5.0 docs. I
think I need to study this some more. For now, I'll keep my sticks in my
Big Black Safe!
Best,
Duncan
