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

I am writing this review shortly after receiving it so if anything changes in the coming weeks I will try to update it. The drive is very small and very light. I bought it for use with a MacBook Air since the laptop itself has very little main memory. I bought the 240GB size and I attached it to the MBA with the included usb 3 cable. My wife and I travel quite a bit and I plan to use it to store images from our digital cameras and unload them when we return. I first formatted the ssd as exFAT with the understanding that that format would allow me to share the device between our Windows and Mac computers but when I ran a speed test on the ssd (Blackmagic speed test app) I was astonished to find how slow the transfer were. You can see the results (read/write = 380/294 MB/s) in the associated screen shot. I have several other ssds that I use on my desktop and they show considerably higher speeds so I decided to reformat the drive for the Mac and rerun the speed tests and that is when I found out something I had not seen initially. The first speed tests I ran with the disk formatted for the Mac returned approximately the same speeds as the exFAT format but I decided to let the speed test run through several iterations rather than stopping it after its first sequence, and the results were both astonishing and depressing. The write speed dropped to less than half of what it had been the first sequence through and I can only assume this has to do with the disk heating up from the initial data transfers. Letting the speed test run through 3 or more cycles only confirmed what I was seeing. Write speeds drop dramatically after the initial test. See that attached screen shots. While the write speeds were very disappointing the drive is small and convenient so users may feel it is worth the cost. I do not.

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.

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FAST. Small, Good price. BUY it. Remember to to a full reformat after arrival. Otherwise will not run at full speed. Ask Don at PNY support!

use it for backup working as expected. good transfer speed the cable was defective so had to buy a new one

perfect size for carry, but not good for those computer only has USB-C port.

Works well. Comparatively small.

It was least expensive SSD for 1GB capacity. Other stores were around $100 or more. Very compact and almost no weight comparing to external HDD. I was very satisfied.

Works just about as good as any SSD Ive had. I havent have any issues running Ubuntu on it. According to some tests I found online and ran, its reading and writing some 40MB/second, which is quite a bit less than I expected, and what was advertised, but still definitely enough for what I need it for.

I have several of those which I use for traveling and/or transfer of files for customers. They work great, are very reasonably priced and super portable.