PNY 32GB Turbo Attache 3 USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Grey (Pack of 3)

Save your money. I read the mixed reviews and decided to roll the dice. I lost. I received this 2 months ago. I purchased to hold my files for my car. Used it 1 time to update the software on the car and then partially filled the drive with tunes. Work great 1 time. Now it just doesn't work. Plug it into a PC and the PC starts going crazy with popup windows telling you to format the drive. (No chance there is a virus on the stick). Cannot access or format. Contacted PNY via their website for an RMA and am waiting to hear back as it was past the return period for Amazon. Judging from the apparent high failure rate in reviews, save your self the bother. Posibbly spend a little more, but buy something else.This is my first zero star recommendation!!!

I bought four of these, one for each of my family members, so I could send them each thousands of digital photos that I had backed up from negatives. All but one of them failed, which means I had a 75% failure rate. That's ridiculous, since I bought them back in October. I assumed a simple re-format would fix them, but as soon as I plugged one into a Windows 10 or a Windows 7 computer, it would say the drive was corrupted and I couldn't access any files saved onto the device. Luckily, I backup files to multiple places and also have flashdrives from other manufacturers. I'm gonna stick with Sandisk or corsair going forward. I tried to save money with the cheapo 128gb drive, but in the long run I'm spending more money!

I bought two of these - one because I knew I was leaving my old work place and I needed to backup various scripts, programs, and macros that I designed over the past 4-5 years and the other to hold a windows 10 install image.The one holding the Win10 image is working just fine. The one I used to backup YEARS of scripts and macros and things I had worked on independently though fried the 3rd time I plugged it in to back it up at home. It worked fine when I was backing everything up. It worked fine again a couple of weeks later when my old work place needed one of the macros I designed - plugged it into my coworkers laptop, gave him that macro, everything worked fine.Maybe a week after that, I realized I hadn't yet plugged it into my PC to back everything up in case I lost the USB. So I plugged it in... and I heard a soft 'POP' noise. I didn't think too much of it at first (I wasn't even sure I had actually heard it), but I realized after a minute or so that my PC wasn't reading the USB drive. Thinking it was maybe just a slot that was acting up, I reached over to yank it out and try another slot... that sucker was HOT! Like, way way way way hotter than any USB drive ought to be. It also smelled of burning plastic. I didn't mess with it for the rest of the day, and took it to work the next day to see if my work laptop would read it - nope. Came back home, tried it on my girlfriends PC, nothing. Tried it on her laptop, nada. Held onto it for a few more weeks praying, hoping that some PC would read the thing just one more time so I could grab everything I had built over the past 4 years.Never did read ever again. I was crushed, and still am today about it - YEARS of notes, some of my proudest moments, many different iterations of time saving scripts, things I would come home from work and work on night after night until I went to sleep to refine and get to work even faster and more reliably - all of it gone like tears in the rain. I finally tossed it out a couple of weeks ago because I got tired of looking at it and remembering all the work I lost. I mean, a good amount of it is in my head, still. Lessons were learned and they'll stick with me. But I'll never get that stuff back I worked so hard at, and that sucks.I've purchased more PNY flash drives than I can count over the past 15 or so years, I've NEVER had one fail on me like this, and for something so important to me. After this, I don't think I'll be buying one ever again, certainly this model. I realize that I was likely just the 1/10,000 that had one fail the third time it was being used. Manufacturing processes are not perfect, and eventually someone will get the one that deviates just enough to crap out at the worst possible time. Sucks that it was me this time.

Very disappointed in this drive. I've used dozens of Flash/thumb Drives and this one is terribly erratic. When writing files to it, it will go reasonably fast for a bit, then slow way down and even stop for a minute or two or three..just a dead halt. Then eventually speed up again, only to slow way down &/or stop -- again & again.This is on a good USB 3.0 port After a fresh system boot (Win 10 on a Fast system with SSD & plenty of Ram), nothing else running (even shut down my Anti-virus), and a re-format of this drive -- tried the default (FAT32) as well as NTFS formats.So what should take ~5 minutes to write to drive, instead takes 30 minutes with all the pauses & stops.. Tried 2 other Flash drives after (& in between -- just to be sure) copying the same set of files and they both ran plenty fast without significant pauses, so clearly the issue is with this particular flash drive. Maybe a heat issue?? Or just crappy~marginal chips..I/O controllers?Double-checked Task Manager just to make sure no other process was chewing up CPU cycles or pushing Ram limits.It was pretty cheap ($8 for a 32 gig, USB 3.0 drive), but operates worse than an ancient USB 1.0 drive.

I bought this PNY Turbo 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive - P-FD256TBOP-GE from Amazon thinking it would at least meet it's specifications. However, it was very erratic when I tried to back up about 50 Gb of files from my Dell T7600 workstation's USB 3 front panel port. When I tested the PNY flash drive with Blackmagic's Disk Speed Test the write speed gauge was very erratic and would not consistently produce the same write speed! Then I used Crystal Disk Mark 5 to benchmark it. It hopelessly failed the 4k Random Write tests. (I have attached the Crystal Disk Mark 5 results for the PNY Turbo 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive - P-FD256TBOP-GE along with the results of the same test with a older San Disk Extreme USB3 flash drive. I returned the PNY and replaced it with a SanDisk Extreme PRO CZ88 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive also direct from Amazon.

I bought two 64Gb PNY flash drives in 2015. I thought I was buying the same or better product when I ordered this product, how wrong I was! This product is slower than a snail. It took 3hours to copy a 28Gb folder on a 2015 MacBook Pro. The older and faster drive took only 45 minutes to do the same job. Please avoid this product, it's rubbish :(

For some background, I have been using the PNY Turbo USB drives for the last 3-4 years and have found them fast and reliable, specifically the 128GB capacity drive.I bought another 128GB drive recently (Aug. 2019) and noticed right away the drive didn't seem to perform the same as my other PNY Turbo USB drives. I benchmarked it using AJA System Test and it confirmed my suspicion. I was only getting under 30MB/s Write, 40MB/s Read (see photo). This is abysmal for a USB 3.0 drive, especially one that claims 10x faster speeds than USB 2.0 drives. And when I benchmarked one of my PNY Turbo 128GB that I bought only a year ago, I got 140MB/s Write, 360MB/s Read (see photo). That is a huge difference between drives manufactured only a year apart.Even though I read other reviews stating the same, I didn't want to believe but now I see that PNY has completely gimped their newer Turbo drives and you need to avoid getting this drive. This is very deceptive of PNY and will likely not support purchase of their products in the future.I have tested this new drive several times on Mac and PC and it significantly underperforms my old Turbo drives, even though their appearance and build is exactly the same. Very disappointed in PNY.

I bought one of these (128GB) three years ago, and it was blazingly fast. Write speed of 80 MB/s, read speed of 180 MB/s, on large files, on a USB 3.0 SuperSpeed port.I just bought another one (128GB), and although the name is the same, the look is the same, the capacity is the same, and the price is similar (a bit cheaper, but that's to be expected), the speeds are much, much slower. Write speed of only 40 MB/s vs 80 MB/s, and read speed of just 45 MB/s vs 180 MB/s on large files. The only thing better is that it connects faster when you plug it in, but who cares about that when the bulk of your time is waiting for reads and writes.So between now and three years ago, the product got crippled. It's essentially a different (worse) product in the same packaging. Not a cool move, PNY.

Arrived promptly (ten days from order to delivery) and in good condition. We've now ordered two of these USB flash drives. The first worked perfectly. Highly recommended.

Video files freeze for 5 seconds every few minutes when played on a tv. Tried 2 different tvs, tried reducing the amount of files on the drive, didn't work.