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

Bought it initially for my Tesla. This thing is tiny. Was a little buggy on my Tesla so I decided to use it for personal use. For price, size of HD and memory I think its decent.

I use this PNY Elite 240GB as the primary storage on my Raspberry PI4. Since the station is battery powered, power consumption is a factor, which this fills admirably. It is also the perfect size for the PI4 storage needs. It doesnt seem to slow anything down and, in fact, speeds up the PI4 operations.

Its about twice as fast as my Lexar Pro 633x XC card in the same USB slot, impressive.

Fast for pics. Wow Fast for videos. Storage 224 out of 240 that it says. But for as fast. And works on galaxy phones.

Some reviews speak of high heat...not an issue with mine. Works as expected. Great price as well!

It works great quick to write data. I use it for music in my car. It fits the bill for what I needed.

This little thing works great. Super fast. Better than the larger thumb drives I was using. Worth the change and extra size.

I bought this 960G as an upgrade to its little brother (the 240G model that I bought a few years back. the 240G is still working great.) I use it to extend the drive on my laptop (because the build-in drive is not user-serviceable). I just needed more drive space. my advice: to get the full speed, use the cable that comes with the drive and do not use an extender.

Pros: 1. Fast enough to edit photos from 2. Very small and light 3. Included cord has held up well Cons: 1. Read/Write speed not quite as fast as advertised A little background about me: Im a college student working as a photographer about 35 hours per week, and I shoot 3000-4000 images in a normal month. If I travel somewhere cool, the monthly shutter count can be closer to 6000. Needless to say, Im in constant need of storage space, especially since MacBook disk space is so precious (mine has the 250GB drive). I have a WD MyBook 4TB drive that sits on my desk at school, and its pretty fast and very reliable. However, I have two problems with it: 1. It sits on my desk (external power adapter) 2. Its fast, but not fast enough to edit from (easily) This PNY Elite SSD solves both of those problems! I use Lightroom to import photos from my SD card to the SSD, and it really is as fast as advertised! Several GBs of photos in a matter of seconds. The write speed is plenty fast enough so that Lightroom/Photoshop editing is not laggy, which was my main concern with any external drive. Like I mentioned, the WD MyBook HDD just wasnt fast enough, so that in order to maintain my sanity, I had to import photos to my internal drive, edit, export, and then transfer the files to the external hard drive. Then, I couldnt keep the photos with me. Now, I import directly to this SSD, edit and export, and put the drive in my backpack! Its small and light enough to actually let dangle by the cord without any worry of damaging the USB port of the laptop or the drive. Also, its built super-solidly, and Id have no reservations about carrying it in my pocket at all. Ive had this thing for a few months now, and the port on the device has not loosened significantly, which is a problem Ive experienced with other drives. All in all, Im happy to recommend the PNY Elite SSD to anyone needing a small, lightweight, blazingly fast storage solution!

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