WD_BLACK 500GB D30 Game Drive SSD - Portable External Solid State Drive, Compatible with Playstation, Xbox, & PC, Up to 900MB/s - WDBATL5000ABK-WESN

Nothing against Western Digital, the product itself looks very cool and is a good price for a 1tb ssd. This is a knock on microsoft for being lame with the series x os. It will not allow me to use this device for games because its not formatted for it They want you to spend $220 for the same amount of space on their licensed Seagate expansion card so shame on them. Hopefully in the future it will be resolved and be able to be used. Unfortunately as of now it seems it works for every system except the Xbox Series X and with these new games today, 1tb of space just doesnt cut it even with the faster down and upload times via the solid state drive so I will have to return this and either have to install what I want to play at that time or give in to them. Really hate it when companies that make as much money as Microsoft does pull crap like this. Really shows they cant just let you have anything, because it would obviously kill them to let me save $70 on some extra space after getting scalped on the console in the first place....

Very easy setup with my PS5 and most importantly its blazing fast! highly recommended. My only gripe is you can get more terabytes with a standard hard drive as opposed to this SSD, but speed and performance are the reasons why I purchased

I really hope this SSD External drive would last for a long long time. I am using it for my PS4 and loading times was reduced to 50-75%. What used to load for 50-60 secs, is not loading at about 10-15 secs. I wonder if an Internal SSD would be much faster. I bought one but for some reason the PS4 could not recognize it. It is called XrayDisk ? ... Very lightweight. As if it was made of plastic. I returned it. Thought I was being smart. Anyway, this drive is so far so good.

For a real-world test I took 8 gig of files on an internal HDD and copied them via USB-C to this drive. 1522 files of varying sizes. Copy time was 1 minute 40 seconds exactly. Average speed was between 73 and 80 Megabytes a second. Deleting all those files took under 2 seconds. But the drive slowed down towards the end. From an internal SSD to this drive on the same connection was 280 meg a second average, but after half way through it dropped to 111 meg a second and stayed there. At times it dropped to 17 meg a second. This was copying 20 gig of random files. It took 2 minutes and 41 seconds. So I tried a different internal drive, this time an NVME. Max speed was 280 gig a minute, but at about 30% through it dropped down to 110 meg and at times dipped to the teens! OK, time for a test. I hooked up a different external SSD I use for videos and tested it. Same files as the previous test, same connection. I had speeds over 320 meg a second, averaged 290 and never hit the sudden drop-off the WD Black had. I occasionally dropped to the 50s. My benchmark software put it at a max of 418 meg a second. Nowhere can I find data on the drives cache size, but it looks like the cache is filling up at around 10 gig of continuous transfers when transferring a lot of files and data. But do games transfer that much data at a time? After all, its marketed as a gaming drive. I moved a few games to it to see if I could notice any lag - and I could not. WWZ, Cyberpunk and Outer Worlds all were fine. For gaming its fine - and a good price. As a data drive for storing a lot of photos, video files, etc. theres better. Finally, the light is annoying. Its a slender bar thats only active during read and write. Theres no indication if its powered up. I realize not all externals have that, but I find a power light handy.

Bought for my Xbox Series X to replace my 2TB harddrive and it worked great for 2 weeks until games stopped installing and ones already installed corrupted. Absolutely disappointing that my Seagate harddrive can last 6 years (and still going) and this last 2 weeks. Ended up returning for refund. Not going WD again!!!

I thought maybe this thing would help my download and upload speeds, but it didn’t seem to make a difference at all really to me. Maybe I just expected too much out of it…

Ive been using this for a little over 2 months now with my PS5 to store all of my PS4 games on that Im still playing. Overall the cost, storage capacity, and the read and write speed are fabulous! I could not be happier!

I now own 5 or 6 of these. They are all blazing fast with true 7200RPM speed, but as many have mentioned, they can be a little noisy and clicky at times. Some of mine have more fan noise and vibration than others. Likewise some are more clicky than others. Its a little annoying if the drive is on your desktop very close to you. I really wish they provided a longer USB cable so I could place the drives further away. I suppose you could buy a longer cable. That said, when they arent actively reading/writing, etc, they are relatively quiet in sleep mode, which is most of the time. Theres nothing better out there right now in terms of speed and 8TB of storage.

I received this so fast! Very easy to set up! I got this for my Xbox series s and it works amazing, Easily can move games to and from the drive and play

The WD does a good job making decent drives. This one is pretty nice in terms of performance. One thing to note that I have always found that this was too small of a drive for a gaming drive. I would say it fills up VERY easily considering it is only 500 gb. Although it is a good idea to have your pictures and videos stored off the cloud. It is always good to have two back up drives in case one fails you do not lose everything. I found something interesting in that for many game drives I have had, this one was one of the first I did not have to format it to detect and use on windows. It is pretty much a plug and play drive. It does utilize the fast speed port and after doing a test on the transfer. It varies between 100 to 200 MB/s and can transfer a ton of files in no time although it varies based on what usb port you are using. This drive will work with USB 2.0 but it will have a definitely slower transfer speed. The hard drive does not require external power to run. It is a bit thick in size as well and can be heavy. You can transport it if needed but it is not really meant to be moved. The outside has a nice sturdy build but it is definitely not shock absorbent material. It does not make any sound as it is a solid state drive. This does connect and play easily with your xbox. You can store games and stuff on it but from what I can tell you will need to transfer to the main drive in order to play the games if it is a digital copy. The only issue is that it fills up SUPER fast. This is more for storing updates and stuff. The drive is a bit on the pricey side costing as much as 1 TB device which is a bit much. It also works pretty well with windows and if you want it on mac you will need to format it again which will make you lose the ability to plug in and use with your xbox one unfortunately. Also I would recommend transferring files little by little and not all at once to avoid any data corruption. I would also say that if you do not have many games this will work but honestly this could probably hold maybe five games considering game sizes today.