I think it is very unfortunate that you have gieven your editor's choice to the voyager product.
I have exactly the same experience of Corsair rubber USB sticks as Mr Roberts (above). The rubber casing does cause them to press against other devices. I have alway treated mine with great care but even so the connector came lose and then came off one of my (expensive) 16gb Corsair sticks; I now try not to use the others I have as I can see that they too are going to suffer the same fate.
There is nothing significant to protect the connector - it is simply stuck straight onto to the board with only the rubber casing around the joint. Corsair describe the product as "rugged" and offer a lifetime warranty but when I sent it back they returned it as "abused". This was not true I just "used" it normally - it failed because of a poor design (I will try trading standards next).
Anyway - my advice to you - especially with corsair's apaprently poor service attitude [they must know this happens] - is to avoid these they are in no sense rugged and will fail in normal usage.
Incidentally, I too am an IT consultant and have bags of different sorts of sticks - no other brand (claiming to be rugged or not) has ever failed .
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Corsair rubbers are rubbish
I think it is very unfortunate that you have gieven your editor's choice to the voyager product.
I have exactly the same experience of Corsair rubber USB sticks as Mr Roberts (above). The rubber casing does cause them to press against other devices. I have alway treated mine with great care but even so the connector came lose and then came off one of my (expensive) 16gb Corsair sticks; I now try not to use the others I have as I can see that they too are going to suffer the same fate.
There is nothing significant to protect the connector - it is simply stuck straight onto to the board with only the rubber casing around the joint. Corsair describe the product as "rugged" and offer a lifetime warranty but when I sent it back they returned it as "abused". This was not true I just "used" it normally - it failed because of a poor design (I will try trading standards next).
Anyway - my advice to you - especially with corsair's apaprently poor service attitude [they must know this happens] - is to avoid these they are in no sense rugged and will fail in normal usage.
Incidentally, I too am an IT consultant and have bags of different sorts of sticks - no other brand (claiming to be rugged or not) has ever failed .