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

Fits in my shirt pocket, super light and great for movie large files between machines.

This will be a very short, to the point review for now. The drive originally came named something not english. My initial speed tests were getting over 400MB/s for read and write. I wanted to name it what I wanted. As soon as I reformatted to OS X, my speeds were closer to 320. I had a theory that it was the reformatting that slowed it down. Back to the original EXFAT and now its better but still only 380MB/s. Basically, if you want the advertised speeds, you CANNOT reformat this drive.

I hooked this up to my 4k tvs usb input to play movies and videos. Tv had no problem recognizing it and it works like a charm. Most TVs must have it formatted in fat 32, so you must do that first if you are using on a TV. Also might have to be reformatted for a mac too, but thats a simple task. Gets a little warm, but never really hot. So small and compact, too. Very pleased with purchase.

These are tiny and fast! I use this drive as an external drive to my 2016 MacBook Pro. They are almost as fast as the Samsung T3 SSD, which is one of the fastest today. I have Windows 10 installed on this drive for gaming on the MacBook Pro, so I dont have to partition the internal drive with Boot Camp. This way my Mac drive is clean without any Windows installations. This drive has Overwatch installed, and I consistently load the game faster than others, which means I can pick the hero of my choice first. Highly recommended for the value and speed. **** UPDATE 6/2017 **** Its dead.

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

No problems so far, formatted and worked with Xbox one. After doing some test i see that it sometimes it will dip down in write speed to 90 mbps but nothing lower, concidering the orginal xbox drive maxes out at 100 mbps, you are barley losing any speed on writes, even when this hard drive is struggling, but for the most part write speeds stay around 150mbps and 250mbps read time so over all fast enough for what i wanted. So portable and tiny that its hard to not like it. Only other issue is that it gets kind of warm when writing too it, but i guess thats pretty normal and not a big deal.

Small, portable and extremely fast even when plugged into my imac that doesnt have usb 3.0 speed. surprised.

the PNY has a short dongle, its smaller than a credit card. Very convenient to transport and works smoothly. I will purchase again.

This works great for Tesla dashcam and video recording. Plugged it into the car, formatted the disk and started working immediately!

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