PNY 256GB PRO Elite V2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Flash Drive, up to 600MB/s read speed

Every time I copy something to this drive I say out loud: “ridiculous” … because it’s so fast.

Had an old WD 1TB external hard drive which i used to back up important files and folders to but it was slow........I recently bought a new laptop and needed to swap a lot of data between the two so bought this to help with that process and to then keep important files backed up to as a copy.This has a nice design (the sliding out part is a little stiff when trying to push the USB part back into the cover), transfer speeds are more than enough for what I needed, was able to shift over 250GB of data in next to no time.

Superficially, I am very impressed with this drive. It's small, seems well made (shame the keyring hole is plastic though) and is usually very fast indeed.I say usually. For some reason, sometimes the device is capped at around 38MB/s for both reads and writes. And sometimes it's not, with it working at full speed. Don't know what's causing this. It doesn't appear to be a throttling issue as it will do it from cold. I've also tried it in a number of usb slots and it seems to do this in all of them. So maybe mine is defective? The jury is out for now, unless/until I can figure out what the problem is.

The media could not be loaded. The Temperature Goes Above 80. Write Speed Drops Below 300Mb/s

Trash product, bricked after 3 months to write only protection so functionally useless. Can't get return or warranty without sending it back even though it still has private data on it. Customer service completely lacking as they have nothing that can wipe it remotely so unless you never use it for important data that needs protecting and you're happy with replacing it every couple months its awful.

Good quality service and product