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

Got this to POC an IoT raspberry pi system. It works fine. I can boot from the SSD (after updating the appropriate settings). For some reasons this review wants me to mention traveling and warmth, but neither are relevant to my implementation.

Word great

240Gb wallet sized solid state hard drive! I also purchased the 480Gb version too. Sturdy construction, fast, drag and drop. I keep one in my jacket pocket and one in my backpack. You should see my friendss/colleagues faces when I pull out this hard drive. RECOMMEND: Buy a few(I did).

does the work, worth the money.

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.

This product replaced my smaller capacity thumb drive. In the past I have been limited as to the number of files I could have with me. Not anymore. Not only is this PNY smaller than my old thumbdrive, but it has over twice the capacity. Money well spent! And it comes with the cable too.

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.

Versatile, light weight and capacious. i like it.

I use this for Time Machine backup on 2020 13 Macbook pro laptop. Quick and stable.

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!