Corsair Flash Survivor Stealth 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Black

After having been through a 6.9 earthquake and then years later living through the deadliest wildfire in California, I am pretty picky about what ear to buy. I needed something that would endure anything I throw at it, and still keep my data safe. I searched for quite awhile, and finally this popped up. It is perfect, and since I have built a couple computers with corsair products, I figured I couldn't lose. I was very pleasantly surprised on just how tough this thing is. As an added not, you can either wrap it in foil, or throw it in a dark bag to make it EMP proof as well. I highly recommend it for anyone needing to build a bulletproof back up system to all their files.

I’m enjoying this line of USB sticks from Corsair as I have different sizes, basically increasing as my portable storage needs increase. This model is no different in that the build it’s sealed where you could submerse this and not worry about it getting exposed to the water. I’ve seen online tests where people have buried it and froze it and it’s come back usable every time. The only thing I haven’t tried is literal trial by fire and trying to see if it would survive one. While they’ve shown tests of it being run over by a car, I haven’t done that but I have accidentally dropped about 40 lbs on it and no physical damage to the casing and the stick itself still works great.As far as transfer rates, unless you’re counting seconds or even milliseconds, it’s relatively fast under USB 2.0 and on a 3.0 port extremely fast. If you’re looking for something with a lot of portable storage space and is durable at the same time, this is worth considering. Highly recommended.

I have 8 of these units in service now, anywhere from 16 Gig to 128 Gig, with one rubber casing, and the other 7 in the "Survivor" tubes. They are doing laptop backup, home and car audio, amateur radio work, riding in my pocket on the choppers, etc. And I have yet to lose so much as one binary bit of data. Lessons learned over 5 years: The first (16 Gig) rubber casing unit I bought did have the casing pull off after about 8 months. Super glue in the casing (at a static station) restored it with no data lost. That drove me to the Survivor series. Do glue the black rubber rings to the ends of the tubes unless your in really tight quarters for fit. You do NOT want to see what happens when one of those rings gets down a running garbage disposal. I have had no trouble with data integrity on Windows, Linux, Mac, or our own proprietary operating systems. I have had a 64 Gig survivor spend around 20 minutes under 18 feet of water, and go like a scalded cat error free once it was given 5 minutes in front of a hot (hair) blow dryer. Also, I did have a 32 Gig Survivor trip an alert on a security scanner one time at the airport (in Canada). But we could not get the problem to repeat itself on any other scanner at that airport, or any other airport after about 45 tries to duplicate the problem. I even contacted Corsair, and up until that time anyway, I was the only one to report the "false alarm" to them. It's probably about 3 more weeks until my files will dictate another unit, at which point I'll pick up a 256 Gig Survivor. Also of note, the newest 128 Gig unit I bought is about .25 inch shorter than the earlier Survivors. It makes for an easier ride through the day in your pocket for some reason. 5 stars for the Survivors from my perspective.

I have been manhandling this thing for the past year and a half. I recently lost one of the rubber rings as they do come off very easily, but this thing is awesome. No way any other flash drive would still be alive after what I have put this thing through. I have had it fall down multiple flights of stairs, it has fallen out of my pocket and been ran over by my car as I backed up, been dropped hundreds of times. Once it fell into the crack of an elevator and jammed the door from closing! The letters rub off quickly and the paint is easily scratched, but this this does its job and does it well!

This is definitely the best USB drive I've bought. It's waterproof and built like a tank. If you need a drive to keep sensitive info or vital data on, this is it. It's USB 3.0 so it loads/uploads fast. Yeah, it's a little pricy but well worth it. I highly recommend this drive.

I bought a pair, and when they arrived, one of the USB didn't work. I sent the package back, and amazon send me a new package whit new usb's. When they arrive, again one of the usb's didn't work properly, extremely slow when compared to the other. So, one usb works perfectly, the other one not so good.

I've had one of these for about 3 years now, and really needed another one. I have one with work stuff on, and one with personal stuff on. I have literally run over one of these with my truck for work, and there was absolutely no damage at all. The only thing I did find out is that if you put two on one key ring, it is a little tricky. I did find a solution, and that's with a wire key ring, the type that you screw into each other. These are USB 3.0, so they are super fast. These are the real deal, and not knockoffs.

Fast and secure! Love the sealed design as i was getting tons of crap inside my sandisk usb