PNY - Attaché 4 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Blue/White

PNY hasn't never been the best product for me and yet I still buy them thinking they have improved over the years. Hence this recent purchase is some what problematic right away. Just FYI: my intended purpose of purchasing this flash drive is to give a friend all the pictures taken during his wedding, both raw and jpeg files. Purchased this particular flash drive because of the size, availability, and price. No complaints there. The issue is some what a compatibility issue with my PCs. My newer PC has USB 3.0 all around and this flash drive would drop to 0 MB/s at each one of them while transferring about 40-50 MB of raw photos. There are other flash drives out there that can work with USB 3.0, but have a USB 2.0 transfer speeds. I was baffled on why it does not consistently transfer files and have transfer drops in my newer PC. I went on to my other PC that is a bit older and has USB 2.0 ports. Here I can see the value of this flash drive where is working fine. I do understand that this is a USB 2.0 flash drive, but it should not be dropping transfer speed or crashing and ejecting itself from the PC. Personal recommendations: For those who are just looking to store small files such as word, pdf, and jpeg files that's about 10MB in great quantity then this is okay, but might run into drop transfer speeds and compatibility issues. Power users who need a flash drive that need to transfer huge file size and is compatible with both USB 2.0 and 3.0 then skip this product or look for a PNY USB 3.0 flash drive. Also don't let the price entice you to buy this if you're a power user (at the time of purchase this was priced at $10.99).

I got this because I needed to put 45GB of Exchange/Outlook mailbox data on it for a lawyer, along with some random Office files and such. I was looking for the best price per gigabyte I could find without going with an absolute unknown manufacturer because I was strapped for cash at the time. It held all of the data I needed to put on it, obviously, but it took an extremely long time for the data to transfer. Honestly, I was kicking myself for not ponying up for a better drive while I was waiting for it to finish. So, if you are looking for fast data transfers, this isn't the drive for you. If you just need the capacity, have plenty of time to watch a progress bar and are short on cash, this is for you. I did like the single piece, retractable design of the chassis. I didn't have to keep track of the drive cap which can be a pain. It appears to be relatively sturdy compared to some drives in the same category I've worked with over the years which is a plus.

I used this drive to back up critical files for a research project involving audio and video files gathered from the internet or on location. I liked the idea of having more than enough space to store files for transfer between a laptop used for field research and a more powerful desktop used for compiling the final report. At a point after six months using the drive to store the research, I forgot to remove the drive from my desktop computer at shutdown. The next time I started the computer, the drive was locked in a read only mode, meaning I couldn't edit the files on the drive or add new information from the field. Lots of information is available on how to correct the "PNY Read Only" problem, except none worked. I even researched how to unlock the "computer administrator" login for Windows 7 thinking I could supersede mere "user" permissions assigned to the format and used to create the files. Turns out PNY was it's own "administrator." I've sent the PNY, my $39.95 plus tax, my last research update, and the PNY "permissions" to computer recycle heaven, where hopefully a better manufacturer will change the matter molecules into something more universally useful.

Okay, so I was in the market for a flash drive with a decent size to move pics from an old computer and keep safe until I finally get the new one, as a backup more or less. Saw a great deal for this drive and went to the store. That in itself was a pain which should be it's own review but that's for another day for another forum. Purchased and took it home. Put it into my PC and formatted and transferred the pics into the flash drive. Thinking I had way more space than I did, I decided to add some more files but noticed that the drive was almost full. Went to look at the storage and it said that 24gb of 32gb of useable storage had been consumed. Thought it was weird. Found some videos on how to reformat the drive in order to get the full storage capacity. So, I went about moving everything from the drive back to the PC. Went through the step by step instructions and nothing happened. The drive was still only showing 32gb, I looked at the drive and made sure that it was the 64gb and sure enough it states it on the side. Unfortunately, the formatting made it only have 50% of the actual storage capacity be useable. Tried several methods and nothing, but unfortunately by the time I caught this, it was too late to return to the store. Completely disappointed and will not recommend to anyone much less a friend.

This drive is perfectly adequate. However, note that it is made with relatively inexpensive materials and only comes with a 1 year manufacturer's warranty (other flash drives on bestbuy.com come with a two year or five year warranty and a few come with a "lifetime" warranty). The shell appears to be made entirely of plastic to include the connector (previous drives I have owned had a metal connector) . I am using it to listen to music in my car so I don't plan to frequently connect or disconnect the drive. It should be perfectly adequate for that purpose. I'm not sure how durable the drive would be if used for data transport where it was frequently being connected and disconnected. However, it seems perfectly acceptable as a semi-permanent data storage device for my car. Again, the drive seems to work acceptably; but, cannot attest to its long term durability. The lack of a metal connector coupled with the manufacturer's decision to only provide a one year warranty for this device makes me suspect that it may not be as durable as similar capacity drives that use a metal connector.

Failed after 2 weeks, after safe ejections each and every time and about 400 scans of receipts, one at a time spanning 30 years. During failure it failed to recognize the drive, and asked if I wanted to reformat the USB drive, which I elected not to, so I could pursue some type of data recovery. Lost all data, contacted manufacturer technical support immediately, who said it occurs from time to time, nothing could be done, referred to me to a software supplier of data recovery software, who never followed up to send the free download, after signing up for the demo software. Nonetheless I tried 2 additional different software recoveries, and both could not find the drive. Best Buy did exchange the drive for a different supplier, which made the bad experience and 2 weeks of lost time scanning and organizing the receipts less painful.

I've been using Pny flash drives for at least eight years, and none has yet failed on me. They are primarily notable as being no-frills and inexpensive drives. While they were notably bulkier when compared to such familiar name-brands as Sandisk and Kingston, they have become over the years quite a bit slimmer, and comparable in their silhouette to those much more expensive flash drives. They however remain no frills in that you do not have built-in pass-word protection, but you can of course pass-protect your data using the software encription built into the creation software such as Microsoft Office or Adobe. Besides, the advertised storage space remains fully available for your use. On the whole, an excellent storage device.

This was the first time that I purchased this brand PNY - Attaché 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive. I bought a new computer and needed to transfer all of my files and years of photos from the old computer. The Best Buy tech said that he thought all of my photos and files would fit on the flash drive. I was skeptical because I had years of photos and videos on my hard drive. The Best Buy tech was right, so there I was wrong :-) all the files, photos and videos moved perfectly from the old hard drive to the flash drive and then onto my new computer hard drive. I'm glad the Best Buy geeks know what they are talking about. Thanks guys