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memory capacity	512 GB	512 GB	32 GB	256 GB	32 GB	512 GB
write speed	—	500 MB per second	10x	100MB/s	up to 10	300
read speed	130 megabytes per second	600 megabytes per second	—	200 megabytes per second	70 megabytes per second	400 megabytes per second

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Elite USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C Flash Drive - Transfer and Share Faster

Elite USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C Flash Drive - Speed

Elite USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C Flash Drive - Share, Save & Store More

Elite USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C Flash Drive - Use Across Multiple Type-C Devices

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Read Speed	‎130 Megabytes Per Second
Connectivity Technology	‎USB
Color	‎Red, Black
Flash Memory Type	‎CompactFlash
Manufacturer	‎PNY
Hardware Connectivity Technology	‎USB Type C
UPC	‎751492624006
Global Trade Identification Number	‎00751492624006
Item model number	‎PFD512ELTCGE
Hardware Platform	‎PC, Mac
Item Weight	‎0.704 ounces
Product Dimensions	‎0.85 x 0.4 x 1.5 inches
Item Dimensions LxWxH	‎0.85 x 0.4 x 1.5 inches
ASIN	‎B07NQJJZHL
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer	‎No
Date First Available	‎February 13, 2019

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Customer Reviews	315 ratings 4.0 out of 5 stars
Best Sellers Rank	#10,343 in USB Flash Drives

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The PNY Elite USB 3 1 Gen 1 Type-C flash drive is the ultimate solution to store and transfer files between your Type-C devices Get the most out of the Type-C port on your new computer or mobile device and experience USB 3 1 SuperSpeed technology With read speeds of up to 130MB/s and write speeds up to up to 10x faster than standard PNY USB 2 0 Flash drives you an store and transfer files quicker and easier than ever before The Elite USB 3 1 Gen 1 Type-C flash drive is designed to be a storage solution superior to previous generations of traditional USB-A 2 0 and 3 0 Flash drives allowing for expanded connectivity It is compatible with Type-C enabled PC and Mac desktop and laptop computers as well as with Type-C enabled mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets The PNY Elite Type-C flash drive is small in size but big on performance!

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Customers find the flash drive easy to use, fits nicely in Mac Air, and has good storage capacity. However, the speed receives mixed feedback, with some finding it reasonable while others say it takes two minutes to copy a file. Moreover, the functionality and port coverage get mixed reviews, with some saying it works great while others report it doesn't work, and one customer noting it covers both ports on one side of the laptop. Additionally, the USB-C drive aspect and value for money receive negative feedback, with customers describing it as useless for anything.

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7 customers mention "Storage capacity"7 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the flash drive's storage capacity, with one mentioning it can hold all their music.

"...All in all this is a good drive with a good capacity to store a lot of data and has a well known name (PNY) which has been around for some time, and..." Read more

"...Overall it blows my mind how much memory fits on such a small device." Read more

"...512GB version about a year ago, and using is with Win10: the drive has a good size, but it is slow...." Read more

"...The storage capacity is great, and the speed is reasonable, but ultimately, it does not do what I bought it to do." Read more

6 customers mention "Size"6 positive0 negative

Customers like the flash drive's size, noting that it fits nicely in Mac Air and is easy to carry.

"...I found a nice, small, easy to use plug into the phone memory for taking the pictures and storing files I sometimes need but don't want on my phone...." Read more

"...I like that its small, so its easy to carry and the transfer speeds seem to be good." Read more

"It's a great little USB-C jump drive; very compact & Great for smart phones and tablets." Read more

"Fits nice in Mac air" Read more

5 customers mention "Ease of use"5 positive0 negative

Customers find the flash drive easy to use, with one mentioning it is Plug N Play and another noting it is easily recognized on Android phones.

"...I found a nice, small, easy to use plug into the phone memory for taking the pictures and storing files I sometimes need but don't want on my phone...." Read more

"The drive is easy and convenient to use, but covers up enough of an adjacent port on a Mac Laptop to prevent use of that port (USB-C port)...." Read more

"It is easy to use, super fast when copying from/to storage, to the point I feel it isn't real or the item hasn't been really transferred when the..." Read more

"...I didn't have to do any special formatting for it. Plug N Play. It can get hot but I've seen toaster sticks." Read more

27 customers mention "Speed"9 positive18 negative

Customers have mixed experiences with the flash drive's speed, with some reporting reasonable performance while others find it slow, taking up to two minutes to copy files and feeling like USB 2.0 speed.

"...If I do a longer take, that's maybe 2 gigs or so, it takes a remarkable amount of time for this thumb drive to copy from my phone to the drive...." Read more

"...Works well on my 11in iPad Pro, no issue finding it and transferring files to it...." Read more

"...if you want secure data on this thing, it will take a long time to copy files over and the read speed is really bad as well...." Read more

"VERY SLOW: Even small files struggle to transfer. It's so slow, I thought it might be defective, as this doesn't seem like USB 3.1 speeds..." Read more

19 customers mention "Functionality"10 positive9 negative

Customers report mixed experiences with the flash drive's functionality, with some saying it works great, particularly with iPad Pro after formatting, while others mention compatibility issues with MacBooks.

"...Works well on my 11in iPad Pro, no issue finding it and transferring files to it...." Read more

"...The drive is not usable in my older windows PC's as they all have the non type c USB ports and I have no need to use it with them as I have USB..." Read more

"About the size of a quarter, this was very handy and if the plug was just about ⅜ of an inch longer, I would have given this item of five star rating..." Read more

"...state I plugged in the flash drive again, but the system failed to recognize it at all -- it was dead as far as my laptop was concerned." Read more

6 customers mention "Usb-c drive"3 positive3 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the USB-C functionality of this flash drive.

"...All in all this is a good drive with a good capacity to store a lot of data and has a well known name (PNY) which has been around for some time, and..." Read more

"The width as you plug into laptop it renders The other USB-C useless. As it is covered on a MacBook Pro. I was happy when I found it...." Read more

"...10 USB drive for computer I'm about to build and it functioned as a USB drive should...." Read more

"This is a terrible product. It is a USB-c drive and it takes two minutes to copy a file of one MByte!" Read more

8 customers mention "Port coverage"0 positive8 negative

Customers report that the flash drive is too wide, blocking adjacent USB-C ports.

"It is a little wider than I would like but I guess that is to be expected with how much space it has...." Read more

"...other USB-C connector unusa ble because this flash drive configuration is just a little to wide...." Read more

"The drive is easy and convenient to use, but covers up enough of an adjacent port on a Mac Laptop to prevent use of that port (USB-C port)...." Read more

"Works great, but because they made a wide contact, it covers both ports on one side of laptop, not so great." Read more

6 customers mention "Value for money"0 positive6 negative

Customers find the flash drive to be a waste of money, describing it as totally useless for anything.

"...Overall, a very weak product (at least for use with a Mac)" Read more

"...It's utterly ridiculous and makes it almost unusable." Read more

"This is a terrible product. It is a USB-c drive and it takes two minutes to copy a file of one MByte!" Read more

"...Drive is kind of loose when inserted on laptop. Waste of money" Read more

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David Goodnough
PNY Elite 256GB 3.1 Type C Drive
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2019
Size: 256GBVerified Purchase

Nice drive for the price. Larger capacity allows you to save lots of data.
I have read reviews on other name brand drives that stated drives got very hot when writing data. I chose this one due to no negative reviews concerning this. In my experience, all drives will get warm to the touch, as they create heat when doing so. When writing large amounts of data to this drive, it does get warm, but not extremely hot as other drives were reviewed.
I am a linux user, and found the drive does not work the best when using the format (Fat32) that was on the drive. I formatted mine to ext4 journaling which is what newer version of linux use, which windows OS does not like at all (At least not the 8.1 or older - I do not use windows 10 so I don't know if it works with it). The drive is not usable in my older windows PC's as they all have the non type c USB ports and I have no need to use it with them as I have USB drives specifically for them.
All in all this is a good drive with a good capacity to store a lot of data and has a well known name (PNY) which has been around for some time, and at a good price.

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Alex Beyer
After accidentally breaking San disk drives, I tried these instead, AMAZING.
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2020
Size: 512GBVerified Purchase
Now nothing special is going on here, but you do get good read and write speeds. Works well on my 11in iPad Pro, no issue finding it and transferring files to it. A neat feature of the way it stores/protects the USB C, means you can push the red part against your device to cut down on flex and stress to the fragile connector. Though, it doesn’t extend far enough when I had my iPad in a 3rd party keyboard case. So I doubt it would work with rugged android cases as well. Not the end of the world. Definitely buy. Especially for phones and devices that don’t allow TF expansion. Great for backing up and acting as a bridge, especially ever since android did away with treating your device as an external drive.

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THOMAS E FAGAN
Almost Perfect
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2021
Size: 512GBVerified Purchase
About the size of a quarter, this was very handy and if the plug was just about ⅜ of an inch longer, I would have given this item of five star rating. Unfortunately, most of us have protective cases on our phones which makes this product less easy to use because we have to remove the case to plug it up. If the plug were longer we would not have to remove the casing.

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William T. Wroblicka
Failed in less than a month
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2020
Size: 512GBVerified Purchase
The 512 GB version of this flash drive failed after less than a month of use. Specifically, one day my Dell XPS 17 laptop running Windows 10 Pro and with this flash drive plugged in to one of the USB-C ports hung on a restart and also on a hard reboot. After I unplugged the flash drive I was able to reboot, but Windows began complaining of corrupted files, which took a while to repair with the help of Dell's support tools. After the laptop had been returned to a stable and normal state I plugged in the flash drive again, but the system failed to recognize it at all -- it was dead as far as my laptop was concerned.

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DJ Evillincoln!?
Slower than regular transfer speeds.
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2023
Size: 512GBVerified Purchase
I'm an actor and I purchased this to be able to transfer takes of auditions to to my laptop for editing. If I do a longer take, that's maybe 2 gigs or so, it takes a remarkable amount of time for this thumb drive to copy from my phone to the drive. Shorter takes are fine but the longer ones are just awful. I ended up purchasing a much faster drive that I am super happy with now.

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Cindy
Worth having for Android Phone
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2021
Size: 256GBVerified Purchase
Got new phone that didn't have the additional memory slot and was disappointed for new phone's memory. I found a nice, small, easy to use plug into the phone memory for taking the pictures and storing files I sometimes need but don't want on my phone. It works great and so far hadn't had an issue with any loss of files. I would recommend to anyone that needs more memory with a pocket drive availability. A great replacement for not having the micro SD card option. Can be placed onto a key chain as well.

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Philip Theobald
Eh, not so great.
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2020
Size: 64GBVerified Purchase
So I have the 256GB and 64GB of this drive. I dig the form factor. The mechanism that covers the USB C plug is cool, works well, is snappy. Here's the thing... I'm running a Mid-2018, 15-inch Macbook Pro with Big Sur and I recently encrypted my 256GB drive with APFS (which is. recommended for flash drives only on mac, which is the case for me). When I say this thing is slow... IT GOT SLOOOOW!!! I actually decided to run some Blackmagic benchmarks to see if the format or encryption made much of a difference and here's my results...

MSDOS (FAT): Read 95MB/s, Write 130MB/s... APFS: Read 70MB/s, Write 130MB/s... ExFAT: Read 70MB/s, Write 120MB/s... Journaled: Read 30MB/s, Write 80MB/s... APFS Encrypted: 8MB/s, 60MB/s

8MB/s write speed when encrypted!!! I ran this through a file transfer calculator and that means encrypted it would take 9 hours, 6 minutes, 8 seconds to fill this 256GB drive at that rate. Basically if you want secure data on this thing, it will take a long time to copy files over and the read speed is really bad as well. It says 60MB/s which would probably be tolerable but the drive is hardly responsive. I just don't think it handles APFS encryption well.

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Chris
It works
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2021
Size: 256GBVerified Purchase
It is a little wider than I would like but I guess that is to be expected with how much space it has. I needed to reformat it to exFat or something to move files larger than 4gb. Overall it blows my mind how much memory fits on such a small device.

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Aman Budicha
Nothing special
Reviewed in Canada on April 2, 2021
Size: 512GBVerified Purchase

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John Collin Jeffery
No instructions, doesn't work on Samsung Galaxy S10
Reviewed in Australia on August 8, 2021
Size: 256GBVerified Purchase
I expected to be able to connect the USB to my mobile and see instructions on the screen, as one does on a PC.
Connect and nothing.
Disconnect and a message appears telling you that you've disconnected and your data may be lost; great!
Try to find instructions on the Internet; nope, nothing.
Some friendly assistance from other folks, the best being that I need to reconfigure my mobile settings.
Well, I am not a technician and don't want to risk buggering up my phone.
So, I returned the USB to Amazon; still waiting for a refund.

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Bob
Nice form factor, mediocre performance
Reviewed in Canada on July 1, 2020
Size: 128GBVerified Purchase
This is a nice little drive for portable data storage, but it is slow. It supports USB 3.1 gen 1, but it performs slower than many of my USB 3.0 drives. If your requirement is to move small files to/from a computer that only has USB-C ports, it gets the job done, but expect to wait.

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DCC
Useful added memory
Reviewed in Canada on December 12, 2019
Size: 512GBVerified Purchase
Good addition to computer memory. Only problem is blocking access of other USB 3.1 devices to adjacent port.

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Brand	PNY
Memory Storage Capacity	512 GB
Hardware Interface	USB 3.1 Type C
Special Feature	Lightweight
Compatible Devices	Laptop, Desktop, Tablet, Mobile

PNY 512GB Elite USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C Flash Drive - 130MB/s

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