PNY Elite 480GB USB 3.1 Gen 1 Portable Solid State Drive (SSD) - (PSD1CS1050-480-FFS)

Bought two of these for use on RPi 4. Both worked very well for a few months. Then one started to report bad blocks and require fsck every boot. After a few days even this failed and the drive never worked again. The other one is still working fine after several months. So I gave 3 stars as average of 1 and 5.

I love it, I do, I really do, but I dont think I love it because its blindingly fast, because to be honest its not that fast at all. Speeds are all over the place really depending on the file type and size, the majority of time they are around the 150 - 200 write and about 200 - 300 read, so no records being broken there. Its so small though, its a 480Gb SSD that looks like a Zippo lighter and weighs as much as box of tic tacs. I bought it to run a backup copy of my OS, pretty damn easy too. I reinstalled my main OS and then used Rufus and installed a Windows To Go on the Elite drive, works flawlessly too. Use on any PC and after an initial first time windows setup on the new PC, you dont have to go through it again, even with systems with conflicting hardware (like AMD or Nvidia GPUs), you can install the drivers along side each other, they only become active when they coincide with the correct hardware on boot up. Ive actually ran a full day of booting from the PNY Elite, just using it like it was my main system drive, it only ever felt warm to the touch and only a little warmer when moving huge files. I also ran games installed on the other partition on the Elite and it honestly felt no different to my Evo850 internal drive, so thats why I love it, plus its so dang small!

Works great...perfect size...and nice price!

A small item with enough memory storage for work. Fast speed and save a lot of time in saving and transfer large files.

Drive works well. The cable that came with it was faulty.

Works easily and performs well. Small and light power usage for mounted data drive for my home Raspberry Pi server.

Fantastic little device. Just the right size so it doesnt get lost or misplaced. Though others have noted it gets a bit warm upon use, that doesnt seem to be much of a concern. Once the data is encrypted, this is a good little device to take when traveling. It loads onto the desktop right away and quickly ejects as well. Similarly password box loads quickly.

I like the physical size and the amount of storage. Awesome. Good price and delivery. Thanks

Great for travel to take an incredibly large number of files with fast access speed.

Works great! No need to spend more. PNY is some good gear :)