WD_BLACK 2TB P10 Game Drive for Xbox - 1-Month Xbox Game Pass, Portable External Hard Drive for On-The-Go Access To Your Xbox Game library - WDBA6U0020BBK-WESN

I use it for backups, since the additional speed makes that process less painful. It definitely works faster than a standard external HDD. However, it's still a HDD so speeds won't be nearly as fast as SSD or NvME. Given the price difference between SSD / NvME and this product, you can't beat the price, quality, performance, and most importantly capacity for a HDD, since comparable SSD, etc are far more expensive for this amount of space.For good performance for gaming or large data storage (imaging, backups), it's a good product at a decent value.

I got this external hard drive to supplement the tiny hard drive on my gaming laptop. I could have just installed another internal drive, but that’s a lot of trouble I didn’t want. It works extremely well, and while Steam downloads are a tad slow (large game, USB interface, or network speed could have all been the culprit), I did not see a lag time when actually playing the games. The product’s form factor is small, somewhat armored, and lightweight. I also bought a hard case for it, as my setup has to be portable. I am quite pleased, overall.

Great budget hdd drive. Reliable. Easy to use. 5 terabytes is plenty of room for games or movies. Just make sure you let your game box whether Xbox or Playstation format your hdd drive or it will not work. If for movies or data use a formatter for NTFS. Use appropriate format for the amount of terabytes on your drive. Very important. Use NTFS not exFAT. I made that mistake and had to reformat. You easily put hundreds of movies, pictures, and files and have room for more.

When I came across the "We suggest the Black model for your gaming needs" message I figured it was just marketing. But given that this drive is the same cost as a non-gaming drive...why not?I've had issues with hard drive not disconnecting on the PS5 causing an error message at every startup and a hard drive repair. This has happened with hard drives AND SSD so I figured it's just a problem with the PS5 and bad design. However... I haven't had this problem since I switched to this drive.In general the PS5 interface is extremely sluggish, and games load REALLY slowly, even from the Internal "high speed" storage. In general, the PS5 is just a lousy console, but there are upgrades that can improve the experience. One of them is a good optimized "game drive".This particular drive is a bit more rugged than other plain ones, and looks like it came out of one of those Toughbook laptops. It's just a USB hard drive like any other, cheap for the capacity, but I'm imagining the cache and firmware must be optimized for this specific use because...I can't quite logically explain it but this hard drive is MUCH faster than even an SSD plugged into the PS5. It just loads up games near instantly, and they download and install faster than before. The hard drive errors on shutdown and restart seem to have stopped.So overall? If you are using a video game console this appears to be the ideal external hard drive that you want. It's certainly the one I want going forward.

Looks like the storage works perfectly fine, however, I got 500 GB less than advertised. Like it’s not the end of the world but that’s not insignificant.

Happy with the storage capacity, 6TB is more than I've ever had so far. It was easy to connect and install and I like the software they included the check on the health of your drives (I can even use it to check my main drive as well since apparently it's the same brand!). Transfer speed is pretty decent for a regular hard-drive like this. Don't expect SSD speeds from it and you'll be happy. I use it to store large video files. I wouldn't recommend using this to load programs and games off of, that kind of task should be exclusively for an SSD preferably connected internally. Very good value for the money.

These external drives are my all-time favorite. I have been buying them for a few years now, - not necessarily for gaming, but to store a large amount of heavy graphic files and for their high-speed upload ability. And, they never failed me. So these are the only ones I use now, and when I saw that they came out with the pink version (only had the blck ones before), - I could not resist. The most adorable addition to my collection,beautiful color (just like pictured), and even larger capability. What not to love?

If there was ever a sexy hard drive, this is a sexy hard drive. I was looking for a hard drive for backups, but when I came across this, I thought, "Why can't it be a sexy backup hard drive?"This is currently the largest 2.5" external hard drive at 6TB. Inside is a plain old spinning drive that can transfer data at about 120MB/s max. This drive is meant more for storage than for speed, and I'm fine with that.There are different colored versions of this. Instead of the all black version, I got the one with the white base and black top, mainly because it looks better on top of my white desktop computer.I'm using this mainly as media server storage that doesn't have to be written to too much.Overall, the design is sick, the construction and materials are premium, and the price is just right for everything you get.