Features:

  • Transfer speeds approximately 10 times faster than standard PNY USB 2.0 Flash Drives
  • Store and transfer large files faster than ever with USB 3.0 technology
  • Allows for quick and easy transfer of all content
  • The 64GB Turbo USB 3.0 Flash Drive can hold approximately 11,837 songs
  • Sliding collar, capless design with integrated loop makes it easy to attach to key chains, backpacks and etc.
  • Backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports, so you can utilize any USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port; compatible with most PC and Mac laptop and desktop computers
  • Free technical support
these would be a great deal at 120 MB/s read

I noticed a sharp discrepancy in the description. I have the 32 GB version, and the speeds are greatly understated. It writes at about 48 mb/s, moving a collection of files to the thumb drive. It's hard to describe the read-speed. About 1.5 to 2 GB in, it slowed down to 248 mb/s, which it maintained for the remainder of a 3.2 GB transfer. When I moved files to my laptop, the thumb drive was slowed down by the SSD. It maintained a solid 131 mb/s the entire transfer. For this price, these would be a great deal at 120 MB/s read. Transferring off 4 GB in about 6 seconds is far beyond what I expected. Seeing that they more than provide the speed advertised, I will not be using them for my original intention (portable desktops), but will repurpose my current transfer drives and use these for that end. Once the read buffer saturates, they do seem to slow down to 130-140 MB/s. I would recommend this product to anyone who needs this fast transfer for now, but does not need a guarantee of endurance on the device. I have had bad experiences with PNY in the past as durability and lifespan go. I am giving these the benefit of both the doubt and the one year warranty.

GREAT USB Flash Drives

I use USB flash drives for my Roku Ultra as well as sending photos and videos to my distant daughters. As I seldom get them back, I am always on the look out for new excellent quality flash drives at a reasonable price. These are it! These are a great price, and excellent quality. They are rated as 3.0 which is 10 times faster than 2.0 assuming you have a compatible 3.0 port on your device. But if not they are backward compatible. I have not had any problem at all with then, transfer rate is excellent, and they are small I can mail them with no problem. They work extremely well with my Roku. Just plug it into the Roku USB port and viola it is off and running. I will definitely buy these again!

Works like a charm.

I needed a large capacity flash drive to put TV shows on for an elderly relative to play on a laptop. I tried a San Disk, but it had security software, and file size restrictions that caused all kinds of headaches. I wanted a drive that was simple to use without any bells and whistles, and without file size restrictions. This PNY Turbo did the trick. Drag and drop. Done. Simple. No pop ups telling me files were this, or that, or too big, or couldn't be copied, blah, blah, blah. The shows I saved to the drive played easily on her laptop, and on my PC, as well. I even tested it on our 80 inch Samsung TV, and they played flawlessly, and looked beautiful, without any issues at all. I highly recommend this product to anyone needing simple, backup for any kinds of files, or for transferring purchased TV shows or movies to a portable drive to play anywhere without hauling a bunch of DVDs around.

Very good storage solution

This flash drive is a very good storage solution for large files. These days the multi-Terabyte hard drives store massive amounts of data. You still need to back it up once in a while, in case of a hard drive failure. This device is a good solution. Even the huge video or ZIP files, 5Gb or larger, can be easily stored on this flash drive. Just remember to format it in NTFS. The good old FAT32 can't handle the big chunks. I've seen the other reviewers' comments about data getting corrupted. Well, when you're dealing with GIGABYTES of data being copied you need to be patient. It's not a hard drive. It happened to me too but then I've learned I need to wait until the red LED in the unit stops flashing. It may say on you screen "the copying finished" but there's still some activity happening. You should pull the flash drive out when that LED stops blinking. "Patience, grasshopper"

Not good for long term: EDIT: User error, drive is good

PLEASE READ MY EDIT BELOW: Worked great for a little while (6months). Now I constantly get drive errors and need to scan and fix them. The biggest issue is now it takes forever for all my laptops to recognize this USB drive. I have around 20 USB drives of different sizes and I tested on all my laptops, servers etc and this PNY USB drive takes almost 30seconds to even be recognized, while the others are picked up right away. Write transfer speeds constantly drop to 0 while transferring files and sometimes moving/copying a 14MB file or any small file takes around 5mins because you never know when the drive will decide to start working and finish the copy/move process. USB drives have been made for so many years. How they screwed this up, I have no idea EDIT: So turns out it was partly (mostly) user error on my part. The drive was FAT32 out of the box and I never noticed it. It would not let me copy files over 4GB because of this. As to why the drive was freezing up and taking forever to be recognized on my different systems, I still have no idea. I reformatted it NTFS or exFAT which allows for higher file sizes. Anyways after formatting my disk gets picked up by the OS almost instantly. And I've used it for a couple years now and it's chugging along pretty good. I'd definitely recommend buying with the caveat that you check to make sure the disk is formatted to a more modern file system type.

awesome

just got the flash drive today and ran a benchmark. the speeds on this are impressive for the money. the cover the for the flash drive is built in and cant get lost which is a bonus for me.

Just as described!

Just as described. To share a bit of information for folks that could be helpful. These (most if not all thumb drives) are formatted to MS-FAT32. What does that mean for you? If you wanted to use this on a Mac then you'll need to reformat it using your Mac's Disk Utility. If your're like me (I use a Mac) but want to be able to use it between a Mac and a PC (Windows) then that's done by reformatting it on your Mac. You will want to open your Mac's Disk Utility, select the thumb drive, then select "Erase", it will then allow you to format type, choose the "Ext drive" format, it's as simple as that and you can now use it flawlessly between a Mac and PC. Please note, your Mac will still recognize this drive without making any changes at all however you won't be able to use it until the format is changed to be compatible.

Great flash drive for the price

I ordered this flash drive two years ago for $20, and I am still using it! It got me through college as an IT student, I have had a few problems with it, but for the most part this has been a great flash drive. The biggest problem I have had with it, would be the fact that I have had to reformat it twice. Once it stopped saving and keeping certain files (most would become corrupted and I couldn't use them) the other the flash drive itself was corrupted. For me that wasn't a big deal (I got pretty upset about losing my files though) because reformatting is a quick and easy fix. The other problem would be the fact that the plastic outside is somewhat cheap and breaks. There's a little key hole to put a keychain on it, and that broke so I could not put it on a keychain for easy access. Other than the few minor problems, this has been a pretty handy flash drive, and its still kicking, even after all of the work I've put it through. I am currently using it to house ROMs, so I would say I'm giving it a pretty heavy workload. Overall I would definitely recommend this flash drive. It is an excellent buy for the money.

Three years later and still going strong!

This was the first 3.0 thumbdrive I bought. I wasn't sure how much difference it would make. Would would it really run at 3.0 speeds? Would it really be the full 64G. The answer is yes. According to my PC there is a thin slice of memory I can't get to but it is effectively 64G and it absolutely runs at 3.0 speeds. I Have even raced it with a 2.0 thumb drive (same files. Same machine) Yah. I'm a bit of a PC geek. This thing has become my favorite for moving big files around machines when I want to air-gap them. Around the house it's become "my" thumbdrive and the rest of the family know to leave it alone. It's been three years. I think I deserve another one. I'll try to report back on it three years from now.

Great Product

I ordered this thumb drive after receiving a notice of sale price... $8 for 64GB. I was a little hesitant at first cause I figured really how good can it be for that cheap price. I'm glad I took the chance and ordered anyways! It is a true usb 3.0 and made a huge difference in just how quick I could transfer and copy files. I have always used usb 2.0 cause... well like most people I have several of them laying around. The files I tend to transfer and copy most are music... anywhere from a few gigs to 30+ gigs at a time. Now I know there are many people out there with several hundred gigs of music, but lets be realistic.... most don't copy and transfer those vast files on a regular basis. The second type of file is photos that originally are taken in RAW format at 24 megs. My older thumb drives could take up to (1hr) depending on type and volume of files, this thumb drive has not taken longer than 18-20 mins and is usually only 1-3 mins. I am very happy with this PNY Flash drive and would definitely recommend.

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