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

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

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.

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 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.

Performs as described. Mine does not get hot.

Got mine on a sale. It worked GREAT for old gen Xbox (Xbox One) storage. Noticeable improvement on load speed. Quicker downloads. Currently using on Xbox Series S. Still a good storage device, however, does not support Xbox Series X|S games. It does not claim to do so, so it still gets 5 stars from me. I got it cheap, and it was my first SSD. Amazing and surprising performance for the size of the thing lol

Versatile, light weight and capacious. i like it.

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 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.