The Voyager GT's USB connector is protected by a cap which can be removed and fitted to the rear of the drive, unfortunately both cap and lanyard cannot be simultaneously attached making it a bit awkward to recommend for on-the-move since you'd ideally want both lanyard and cap to be fixed to the drive even though Corsair does have a very generous replacement policy for their Voyager's caps.
Carrying the Voyager GT around in your pocket does become a tiny nuisance when it comes to the bulky size and the weight of the drive.
This drive just doesn't really fit the USB flash drive profile of portability, even with Corsair's marketing-line of "75% smaller than a typical portable hard disk drive" when newer generation portable USB hard drives come in capacities up to 500GB and only end up being really twice as big as the Voyager GT.
The weight of the drive can also potentially damage USB ports and lead to corrupt data transfers for some users since I often found the drive would flex toward the ground and lose USB connectivity in the middle of a transfer.
This is probably also one of the reasons that Corsair bundles the drive with a USB extension cord and to avoid having users rip out their USB ports on badly soldered motherboards.
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