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

Easy to use. Small size is convenient. Fair price.

It was on sale for $110, Amazon deal of the day, and what i like so far about the product is the size and quality. Super compact SSD and feels solid. Pros Compact size, probably one of the most compact SSD in portable SSD class Look, feel and quality of material is good Good average speeds, not as goods as the company claims Work on MAC and Windows out of box, just plug and play (Read and Write) Considerations This SSD does heat up/feels warm to touch if you continuously use it to read or copy data. Not something that i expected, but i guess it wont hurt Paging was nothat great, came in a large envelope that was torn off on the edge, although the manufacturers plastic package was intact The plastic like packaging is really hard to cut through, i wish this came in frustration free packaging Cons Read and Write speed is not as consistent as compared to Samsung or Sandisk. I tried spurred test on Mac and Windows pretty much the same. Not even close to what is claimed Once you plug in the hard drive it take super long for computer to detect it, i tried this on 3 different computers and its same. Takes like 30 sec The drive was named in Chinese or Korean - You have to rename it The package said It includes data protection software, but it did not **Update** I do not want to be a critic here, but just trying to figure out if the item that was delivered to me has some problem After some more tests on a Mac and Pc (not the one i used earlier) the results are if not exactly but almost the same. Also ran tests on my Samsung SSD and they are consistent too 1. 339.6 write and 298.0 read on a Mac book pro retina i7 16gb 2. 331.2 write and 265.6 read on a Lenovo i5 8gb 3. 336.0 write and 290.4 read on HP i7 16gb If you look at the pattern based the numbers, they are very similar and no where close to what manufacturer 430/400 claims and some of the other users. Also the SSD does get warm even if you are browsing pictures - not that it bothers me but just trying to figure out if my SSD has some defect

It was least expensive SSD for 1GB capacity. Other stores were around $100 or more. Very compact and almost no weight comparing to external HDD. I was very satisfied.

Nice product

Works well. Comparatively small.

Very small

Bought two of these for use on RPi 4. Both worked very well for a few months. Then one started to report bad blocks and require fsck every boot. After a few days even this failed and the drive never worked again. The other one is still working fine after several months. So I gave 3 stars as average of 1 and 5.

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 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.

It was working when I received it, but after initially writing to it a few times in a couple of days there was an error code that indicated the drive was corrupted. I couldnt reformat/partition it properly in Windows 10 (using the command line diskformat) or macOS Mojave (using Disk Utility). I even tried to reformat the SSD with my Lenovo tablet and that didnt work either. It was surely a hardware failure. I went online to try to find different methods for restoring an SSD but nothing worked. I couldnt erase what was on the drive and couldnt add anything to it. It looked as though it was erasing or writing, but after ejecting the drive and remounting it, nothing had changed. Its the first SSD I have had a problem with. I have about four of them (none are PNY), one in each of my Playstations (3 and 4) and a couple of external SSDs for backups. I like them because theyre fast and generally trouble-free. I didnt drop this drive or put it near anything magnetic. It just flat-out failed on its own. Im not replacing it with another PNY. Im going with some other brand SSD. Im not upset but just disappointed. I honestly thought SSD drives were bulletproof with no moving parts.