Review on 💾 PNY Elite X 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive - High-Speed Read up to 185MB/sec - Model: P-FD64EX-GE by Jose Morrison

I was glad I bought this drive because it performed better than my previous drive (PNY Turbo 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive - P-FD256TBOP-GE). Turbo works great, no problems with it. Elite starts up fast and slows down quickly (less than a minute) from MB/s to bytes/s. Yes, bytes per second. Periodically, its speed dropped to 0.00 and stayed there for less than a minute; and then copy a few items before slowing down again. This happened regardless of whether they were USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 ports. I thought it was my PC so I tried it on my laptop with the same result - starts up quickly and slows down to a crawl. Then I tried the old turbo and it was fast. I bought a Sandisk Cruzer Glide 256GB flash drive on Black Friday. This drive works great on multiple computers. So I had the Elite replaced under warranty. And did the same. I suspect this model has a design or manufacturing defect. I tried contacting PNY support through their website but they didn't respond. I have several PNY flash drives and this is the only model I've had problems with. I use GoodSync to copy files. This is a great program that copies files from one place to another very quickly. To solve this problem I tried different ways of copying files with the same result - starts fast and slows down fast.