PNY Pro Elite V2 and Elite-X PRO Portable SSDs Review: Performance on a Budget

PNY Technologies is well known in the computing industry for its NVIDIA-based graphics cards, but the company also participates in the DRAM and flash-based storage products markets. In the latter, PNY markets a range of USB flash drives, SD cards, and portable SSDs under variations of the 'Elite' tag. The company launched two new portable SSDs earlier this year – the Pro Elite V2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 and the EliteX-PRO USB 3.2 Gen 2×2. Both products are based on Phison's native USB flash drive (UFD) controllers. Read on to find out what Phison and PNY can deliver in a palm-sized form factor, and how PNY attempts to differentiate these units from the other PSSDs in the market.