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

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

I expected this low cost ssd external drive will run very warm or even hot, it surprised me it never has such issue, it is barely over room temperature.

By far the slowest drive I have owned. I have 6 external drives because I am a professional Videographer. The write spend on this SSD has never gone above 40MB/s and the read speed has never gone above 100MB/s. This is WAY Far below the industry standard (even for the cheapest solid state drive on the market). Once again.... You get what you pay for. The extra $40 for a good drive would have saved me tons of time loading and editing. Again.. this SSD is even slower than most other Budget SSDs. So, its back to SanDisk and Samsung for me. Less learned.

I wanted to back up my videos and photos (I have a lot). This very compact hard drive has plenty of room and is economical and works in both my USB 2 and USB 3 ports. Its as easy to use as a thumb drive.

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.

Just started using the drive today. So far so good. However, trying to register the drive was very frustrating. There isnt a serial number printed on the drive anywhere and there is no sticker or label either. Theres nothing in the packaging showing the serial. I had to use the cmd prompt in Windows to find the serial so I could register the thing. For anyone else who needs to find this, you can use this command: wmic diskdrive get Name, Manufacturer, Model, InterfaceType, MediaType, SerialNumber. Cant guarantee this will be the right number, so you may need to verify this with the manufacturer, but thats what Windows reports and what I went with personally. PNY should get this resolved.

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!

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

As a tiny SSD with 480gb capacity - Awesome. Does slow down once the buffer if full on large transfers but I use it as permanent backup so once again... AWESOME :)

Slightly slower than Samsung SSD, maybe 20%, but a lot smaller physically and a lot less expensive. Happy for the deal. Have not used it extensively, just put some photos I need to edit and a lightroom catalog. Have not used it extensively yet. If it had USB-C port like the newer Samsung SSD drives I would give 5 stars, but otherwise no complaints