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

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

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

I like the physical size and the amount of storage. Awesome. Good price and delivery. Thanks

You have to see it to appreciate how small it is. About the only think I can knock it for is it may be too small. I’m afraid of losing it. Otherwise, it’s light and fast. Would buy again but not use for travel. Keep it at home or office so you always know where it is.

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.

A small item with enough memory storage for work. Fast speed and save a lot of time in saving and transfer large files.

Appears to work fine

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 :)

I am a gadget fanatic. Love the compactness, and so much faster than my HHD drive. Just enough storage to last a while. Love this thing.

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.