I know a lot less about USB storage in those days and when the drive was delivered, I discovered why it was so cheap.

That said, even with Gen 1 ports, the PNY PRO Elite V3 is much faster than cheap USB 2.0 flash drives and closer to the performance of many of the best portable SSDs. Made for compactness and ...

Recently, I relented and got myself a 128GB flash drive for backing up and transferring data to free up some space on my phone. The product I used was the PNY DUO LINK iOS USB 3.2 dual flash drive.

And, PNY makes a USB-C version of this drive, but none that offers both blade types. Unfortunately, I couldn’t hit the quoted read speeds, although I did hit the write performance PNY claims.

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