PNY256GB Elite-X USB 3.2 Flash Drive - 220MB/s, Silver

I am using this USB stick for music on Pioneer CDJ players and it works great. It comes pre-formatted for these systems and the write times are faster than other USB sticks of this size. It plugs into my MacBook Pro with adapter (pictured)

I tested this drive with the AJA drive speed test tool multiple times, and the write speed always ended up at a very low speed of around 20MBps. I have another PNY drive from probably 10 years ago that will consistently produce nearly 4x the write speeds. This is being testing in an older USB 3.0 port, both front and back, but the older drive was tested the same day in the same ports. And that's why I gave it both an overall 3 and value for money 3. I did check the PNY website and did not find any firmware updates for this drive.

Advertised with write speeds up to 110MB/sec and capacity of 256GB. Actual write speed is averaging 6-7MB/sec and formatted capacity is only 230GB. This is on a fresh build of Windows 11 Pro connected to a USB 3 Gen2 port transferring data from an NVMe M.2 SSD with Antivirus excluding both source and destination. Not worth the extra cash.

I had to return this after 1 day of use. I was transfering a 4k video which was 10 to 15GBs! The write speeds were averaging 6MBs. I could have downloaded a file of similar size from the internet faster! I picked up a SanDisk 256GB Extreme PRO USB 3.2 Solid State Flash Drive and the speeds are as advertised!

First be aware that companies do not measure size the same way computers do, drive is only 230Gb.Second the max read/write speed was never above 40mbs not 220mbs. It's laughable they have the audacity to make that claim. It's a piece of trash.