PNY 64GB Turbo Attaché 3 USB 3.0 Flash Drive 3-Pack
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As an example, I transfered 212GB of GoPro videos (flying lessons!) to a 256GB stick in about 2 hours and 45 minutes, which, based on my calculation, is an average of 21MB/second. During the slow times, the connection would stop, ramp up to 120MB/s, then ramp back down to 0MB/s and hang there for a few seconds, cycling back and forth. This is pretty bad. After testing it on an external hard drive, it transferred at an average speed of 95MB/s, and it never went below 80MB/s, so I think it's just the flash drive. I will probably be sending it back, since this seems to be a common problem with them.
Due to the fact that they came in threes, I assumed that I had to purchase three. If they worked well in a 3, then they would be relatively fast. As with another reviewer, I found no port. Unfortunately, I found otherwise, and I found the speed to be erratic as well. The only cases in which I now use them are those where file transfer speed is not a concern.
During the past year, I have given away few of the 32gb and 64gb memory cards, as I now have the 128gb and 258gb ones. In my national and international travels, as well as when I am on-the-go daily outside of the office, all of these things have worked really well. My equipment is well maintained, but I devote so much time to it that even technologists are surprised at how hard I work on it. My personal opinion is that the PNY grey lil flash drives are excellent, however I am curious about the reliability of the 1t models. I bought this recently and have been testing it since then.
It isn't really an applicable question to such a device. The speed rating belongs to SD and SDXC devices, which started on a much slower scale than USB 2.0. The hard drive contains no data. There are several factors that determine the upper limits of this drive, including the design of the flash memory chips, the performance of the controller in the drive, the performance of the computer attached to it, and the destination media. If you copy to memory first, then to an SSD, followed by a regular hard drive, and finally to another flash device via USB 3, then you'll be faster. Last, there's a USB 2 port connected to a device. Taking advantage of USB 3 is one of its nice features. A problem with USB devices is that even with a USB 2 port, they are still not recognized. Compared to native USB 2.0 ports, they perform better. The number of devices is zero. Over USB 3 it's not nearly as good as over USB 2. There is no processing power behind the drive, but every bit can help a little.
If you look at the reviews, you'll see that several purchasers have benchmarked the drive. Most SDXC devices that support UHS 3 are higher-end models that support higher speeds and less expensive ones which may not be supported at all.
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Your money will be saved. decided to roll the dice based on mixed reviews. I lost. I received this in June. My car will hold my files in the box I purchased. The first use was to update the software on the car, followed by filling the drive with tunes partially. It worked great the first time, but now it just doesn't work anymore. Once you plug it into a PC, you get popup windows telling you to format the drive. (There is no chance of the stick having a virus). The file cannot be accessed or formatted. My RMA request to PNY via their website has been submitted, and I am waiting to hear back since it is past Amazon's return period. You might as well save your self the trouble considering reviews seem to have a high failure rate. It might be worth spending a little more, but consider buying something else instead.
This is my first zero star recommendation!.
So I purchased four of these, one for each of my family members, so I could backup thousands of negatives and send them thousands of digital photos. In other words, I failed on everything but one, making a failure rate of 75 percent. My socks were purchased in October, so that is absurd. When I plugged them into a Windows 10 or a Windows 7 computer, they would say the drive was corrupted, so I could not access any files saved to the device. Luckily, I have multiple backups of my data and have flash drives from other brands. Keeping Sandisk or Corsair as my primary drives is my choice. I tried to save money with the cheapo 128gb drive, but in the end, it's costing me more because it's less reliable and more expensive.
I was able to back everything up without any issues. After I moved, I plugged it into a coworker's laptop to show him the macro I designed - all was fine. However, a week after that, I realized I hadn't yet backed up everything into my PC. When I plugged it in, it worked. . . My PC not reading the USB drive seemed to occur after I heard a soft pop sound. At first, I didn't think much of it (I wasn't sure it had happened), but when I moved it to another slot, my PC started to read it fine. I wish I had a picture of that! It gets way way way way way way way hotter than an ordinary USB drive should. A burning plastic smell also pervaded the air. As for the rest of the day, I didn't mess with it and brought it with me to work the following day to see if it would read on my laptop - unfortunately, it couldn't. My girlfriend's PC didn't work either. When I went back home, I tried it on her computer as well. She tried it on her laptop and it didn't work. I held onto it for a few more weeks, praying that some PC would read the thing just one more time, so that I could grab everything I had built over the past 4 years. They never did. Years of notes, some of my proudest moments, numerous variations of time saving scripts, processes I would come home from work and work on night after night until I went to sleep to refine and get the job done even faster and more reliably - all of it gone. In the end, I threw it out a couple of weeks ago because I wasn't eager to look at it and go over all the work I lost. I mean, I still have a lot of it in my head. A lot of lessons were learned, and I'll remember them for a long time. It's most unfortunate that my hard work will never be restored, and this is a real bummer. Despite purchasing more PNY flash drives than I can remember over the past 15 years, I've never had one fail on me like this, and for something so important as this. this experience, I am not likely to buy one again, at least not this one. It is likely that I was one of the 1/10,000 who had the same problem the third time I used it. Occasionally, manufacturing processes will deviate enough to mess up at the worst possible time, and this time it was me. Manipulating processes aren't perfect, so someday someone will see the one that messes up just enough.
I've used dozens of flash drives and thumb drives. I notice that when writing files to it, the writing goes reasonably fast for a while, then goes way slower than usual, and even stops for a minute or two. All I had to do was stop and restart again. Then I was able to speed back up again, only to slow down again and/or stop. Here is the USB 3. Again, this is a good device. As if to stop. I tried 2 other Flash drives after that ) copying the same set of files and they both ran through the copy operation very quickly, so this is clearly a flash drive issue. Maybe there is a heat issue? It could also just be crappy*marginal chips. This is a USB 3. 0 drive), but performs worse than an old The drive has no content.
The PNY Turbo 256GB USB 3. 0 drive I purchased was the best deal I could find. The P-FD256TBOP-GE flash drive I purchased from Amazon seemed like a good idea, there was at least that much space. I ran my PNY flash drive through Blackmagic's Disk Speed Test and the write speed gauge was somewhat erratic when I tried to back up about 50GB of files. And it did not consistently produce the same write speed when tested by Blackmagic's Disk Speed Test. My next step was to benchmark it using Crystal Disk Mark 5. Neither of the tests for 4k random writing could be passed. the PNY Turbo 256GB USB 3 Crystal Disk Mark 5 results. This PNY flash drive is rated 0 flash drives for reliability along with the results of the test with an older San Disk Extreme USB3 flash drive. I returned the drive and replaced it with a SanDisk Extreme PRO CZ88 128GB USB 3 drive. Directly from Amazon you can also get a 0 Flash Drive.