Customer Reviews

Pny P-Fd08Gu20-Rf Attache Portable Usb 2.0 Flash Drive (8 Gb)

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(17)

 

 

I love that this drive is 8GB, and affordable! I got a new laptop with Vista and it worked flawlessly! It is very easy to use and quite rugged for a thumb drive.

After 5 months, my drive is in the trash. The connector part is very flimsy and snapped completely off the board after what I consider to be only routine wear and tear. I paid less than 1/2 list price, similar to what Amazon is selling it for now. I never had a problem before with it, but then again my very old 128MB is bigger but also sturdier and still works.

About 50% of the files I copy to the drive are damaged.
PNY is a very reputable company, but they must have gotten a bad batch, bought three of these here and all of them do this, on all 13 computers at work.

I have no complaints about my PNY Attache 8G. This is a great flash drive. It's probably bigger than I needed, but I decided better to buy too big than too small. It works perfectly. I can clear it & reload files all the time without a problem. I load and transfer tons of 8 mp photo files, .pdf's, MSAccess & powerpoints. I have not experienced any negative issues so I can't explain the other negative one-star reviews. It's sturdy, I wear it often around my neck and spin it around on its cord, toss it in a drawer or in the car, or into my pocket. It's tough.

I bought one of these, tried it on a vista and XP system and it corrupted my WMA audio files. I exchanged that one for a second one and the same thing, corrupted my audio files. I will now get something else.

I've had this drive for a couple of months now and have tested it on over 20 computers (XP and Win 2000). It works every time! Highly recommended for both quality as well as affordability.

I've really got no complaints about the performance of this drive. It was fine for my purposes. BUT, after only a few months I went to remove it from my computer and the USB connector broke away from the case. Dead drive and lost data. From this experience I'd have to say it has pretty shoddy construction. I had a problem with another PNY flash drive and would never buy another one.

I returned my drive because of the corruption problem of graphics and pdf files. The replacement also suffered from the same problem. I returned it for a refund.

I tested the drives on two different windows PCs and also on a Macintosh.

The line in the final email amused me: "Apparently your system won't work with these drives. We are issuing refund". Indeed!

I ussually go for technology that's been on the market a while so i can get it cheaper and almost always more stable. I decided to go out on a limb with this and man was i wrong... it does not work!!! the flash drive corrupts every file i put into it i formatted the drive in winXP and in mac OSX and nothing there's no way around it. Right now i'm going to contact the company so i can get support or a refund.

I was skeptical of the bad reviews but I encountered read/write errors on large file transfers (+200Mb) as I wanted to use it to backup my hard drive. The problem seems to be with .mp3, .wma and .jpg files. I also had some corruption issues with other media files and adobe files. It seemed to be ok for smaller transfers and non-media documents like spreadsheets and word docs. Took it back to the store and went back to my 1GB Sandisk USB drive. This is my 3rd USB drive (1st 128MB Sandisk, 2nd 1GB Sandisk) and I am going to get a Sandisk product for my 8GB stick.
Sorry PNY...you lost my business.