WD_BLACK 5TB P10 Game Drive - Portable External Hard Drive HDD, Compatible with Playstation, Xbox, PC, & Mac - WDBA3A0050BBK-WESN

This formatted flawlessly to my Xbox series S and has performed perfectly. My only complaint is the light that randomly flashes. I have this located in my bedroom and it’s woken me up occasionally. I love western digital products though and it seems high quality

if your looking just for storage or to free up space and store stuff this is the drive … Ive been using it for a month or so now for storing my pc games and its alright …. gets the job done and you dont hear it at all when its running … if your looking for speed its pretty good considering its a hdd …. ill give it a solid 3.8 out of 5... still has some slight improvement to be done with it … hope they can upgrade it in the future

This is a very fast external drive. Much faster than all my other portable external drives. I am using it to store all my movies that I collected over the years. Thinking about getting another one. Wish it has other color besides just black.

First, I build and repair a lot of computers and electronics for family and friends. I ALWAYS use Western Digital drives when building or replacing a hard drive. I usually use the Black series of drives for performance, durability, and the warranty. These drives last well past their warranties with decent performance for a conventional platter drive. These are the ones to use when you need a large capacity conventional hard drive. I purchased this 5TB gaming external drive to expand the capacity of my PS4. For the first time, Ive gone all digital with my PS4 games to reduce the number of game cases and disks around. I also like to have all of the games available without re-downloading, so this makes digital storage capacity at the console critical for me. Hooking up this drive, formatting it, and moving games over from the internal PS4 HD was much easier than I had anticipated. Downloading games from PSN to the external hard drive is also seamless. Running games directly from the portable drive through the USB 3.0 connection doesnt seem to be any slower than launching them from the internal hard drive, at least I havent noticed any difference in the load times by subjective evaluation. When running continuously, like during a game transfers, the drive gets warm but doesnt seem to get hot enough where I would be concerned. The only major down side to this drive, and its a flaw with most of the 2.5 based WD portable drives, is that they put the drives activity light right next to the USB cable connection. I have the drive stacked on top of my PS4 so that i can see the light flash whenever its reading / writing. I would rather not see the cable, which has to be twisted from the front back around the housing to plug it into the rear PS4 USB port. Depending on how you route the cable, you may not be able to see the light from certain angles if the cable blocks your line of sight. Its not a big deal, but it would be nicer if they had the drive activity light on the other side for a cleaner looking setup. The other down side, which doesnt bother me at all since Im not planning to tear this thing apart and I havent verified this info personally, is that according to youtube reviews the drive itself is not a standard 2.5 SATA laptop drive. The actual hard drive is a portable specific build with a different interface board, so you cant disassemble this bad boy and pop the drive into something else or use the enclosure with a different 2.5 HD. Ive only had mine for a couple of months, but so far I have no complaints. It does everything I need with no perceivable penalty in performance. The extra storage space (5TB!) is a life saver since I had maxed out my PS4s internal drive, and it had already been upgraded to a 2TB drive. This is a much better option than cutting up the PS4s case to fit the height of a 4TB internal replacement. In addition, Sony did a nice job in making this approach a well supported option for expanding the PS4s storage capacity.

Works great on xbox for additional game space

i use this for multi-computer backups. having a network attached storage is 100% the better option for what im doing, but i just...am not that serious at this point. i do backups. its not a solid state drive, so its markedly slower in performance, but thats completely expected because thats the nature of a hard disk that uses platters that spin, so using it for mass storage is the innate function of this type of storages architecture. plus, this thing has a small footprint; you can easily take it w you as its the size of a typical back-pocket wallet.

I know that there are definitely cheaper options out there…. But I will say that this hard drive doesn’t compare to the rest. I love the build quality and it is super easy to set up and get to storing all you need to store! I think this drive will outlast me, when it comes to how it’s built.

Crystal Mark test shows below average performance. I was looking for a CMR drive and was happy to determine this drive being one. Crystal Disk Info reports this drive supports TRIM, so it might have some flash for use as a cache, But was VERY DISAPPOINTED that the rotational speed of only 4800RPM. I tried on a couple of computers, including my new HP ENVY, also 4800RPM. Thought I had a defective one so got a replacement from Amazon.com, but the replacement drive was also running at 4800RPM, with similar poor performance. Needless to say this was NOT an acceptable solution for me, so I returned the drive and bought a cheap SATA SSD which greatly outperformed the P10 WD - you need to do BETTER. 2.5 Stars. Added on 11/11: This item was returned following the Amazon.com instruction. Upon initiating the return to Amazon, there is a QR code presented for scanning by UPS. There is no UPS Tracking Label alongside the QR code. Amazon and UPS shows no status of the return in progress. All I see is a shipping label created status on the Amazon Returns page. Since I returned four items at the same time I have no way of determining which UPS tracking Number is associated with a given QR code. I dropped four items at the UPS store on Monday the 7th. On Friday - today I still cannot see any tracking information other than shipping label created status. I used to be able to see tracking status on UPS, but now see nothing. This is very frustrating as I cannot check the current status of my return. This all used to work fine but unfortunately now does not. I have four QRs and four actual UPS tracking numbers and I dont know which tracking number is associated with a given QR code. I contacted Amazon customer Service. Apparently they can see the current UPS tracking status but the customer cannot. I also used to be able to get text messages saying that my package was received and my order credited. I do not get that now. MAKE SURE you get a receipt at UPS when your item is scanned, so at least you have recourse in case you get a message from Amazon that the have not received your return!

I am a fan of WD drives, but this is not up to the usual WD standards. This drive was connected to a desktop where it was never moved around yet the drive started to fail out of nowhere. I dont feel like I can recommend this drive, even though I am a fan of WD.

Got this drive to use for playing heavily modded Skyrim and Fallout 4 on PC with a portable Mod Organizer 2 instance. IMPORTANT - if you want to use it for the same thing, I strongly recommend reformatting it with a NTFS file system. This is a standard Windows process, and can be easily googled - cant speak to Mac, as I dont and wont use them, and its been a couple of years since I formatted any drives on Mac. Out of the box, it comes formatted as exFAT, and due to the nature of how exFAT works, it not only takes up a lot more drive space per file, but it distributes the files across multiple sectors on the drive platters, which causes crazy slow load times. TLDR : the out-of-box disk formatting makes Mod Organizer 2 load and run unuseably slow. Formatting it to NTFS results in a more or less normal load/run experience and a size on disk that closely matches the actual file sizes. Was originally running a Samsung 1Tb SSD in an external enclosure for this, and 1Tb isnt enough for my MO2 instances w/modlists. A single modded Skyrim SE instance of mine is around 600Gb, and I like to have multiple instances to try different mod loadouts. This drive is of course slower, but it works for what I need it for once I reformatted it to NTFS..