WD_BLACK 1TB P50 Game Drive SSD - Portable External Solid State Drive, Compatible with Playstation, Xbox, PC, & Mac, Up to 2,000 MB/s - WDBA3S0010BBK-WESN

Good investment and the performance is outstanding.

I like how compact it is and its pretty fast

This is a phenomenal drive to expand your gaming library. Powered by a FAST SSD, you wont be disappointed with the speed of the drive. Personally, I have been using it as an external Steam Library. Quite frankly, I dont find any slowdown and Loading times are as fast as ever. I was getting close to my internal NVMe speeds with this, which is insane. Powered via USB-C, using it with my MacBook or PC, I was getting like 1.8GB read speeds which is phenomenal. Writing speeds are a little slower at about 1GB but, holy smokes...that is impressive. My PC has a 20Gb USB Port which the P50 definitely takes advantage of. Unfortunately, the 10Gb port is more common which will result in slower speeds overall.

The first thing is the size. About the size of a small smart phone. With one Terabyte of memory. I still remember buying my first hard drive. 450 megabytes for 450 dollars. And much larger, you could fit about ten of these W.D Blacks into that one old HHD! This is not a super cheap drive, but for an external gaming drive, it is as fast as advertised. I use a PC. Best used with a computer that has an SSD installed already for the OS. I have an older hard drive in my gamer, which I am currently replacing with an SSD drive. However, on my other desk top, which has the SSD for the OS, the speed is amazing. I downloaded my games from Steam onto the drive. It uses USB3.0, cable comes with it. The drive is so fast, when plugged in, instantly the menu of games comes up. I mean...WOW! So from SSD to SSD, this is amazing. For older standard HHD (hard disk drive) to the SSD, you will notice a slightly slower speed. However, the difference loading games and the play is super fast. I loaded Fallout 4 and a few other games. There was not only no lag, I absolutely noticed that when using weapons, there was an immediate response that I never had happen before. Just one white light on the side says its on. I found it gets warm, warmer and can get a bit on the hot side when used a lot, I loaded and unloaded games, photos, other apps, to see performance. Overall, its an obvious speed increase. I loaded up 48gb of photos from the HHD that is used for storage on the PC to the SSD main hard drive on the same computer. It took approximately 20 minutes to transfer from an HHD to an SSD. Then I transferred the same file from the SSD drive on the computer to the W.D. Black. Less than 5 minutes. Thats a 75% increase in transfer rate. Thats excellent. I am going to use this for a lot of things, mostly games. But with the super large 1TB capacity, also will use this for storing photos, other things I need to keep secure. The W.D. Black has proven itself to me quite well. Western Digital is one of the oldest and best computer peripheral companies around. This is a superb drive. I will update after six months as far as lasting ability.

Bought it for my PS5 - games stored on the drive play just as fast as the internal SSD. Thats a true feat if you know about the PS5s vaunted internal SSD. Luckily, I got it on sale for $350.

Original review: Works well! Sturdy and small. Usb-C connection which is fantastic! Writing and loading games on it is instant. Huge gamer but don’t pay attention to all the technical. I play my game and can compete with no flaws.

Installs and formats in a snap, but then you get a nasty surprise if you own a seriesX or I would imagine a PS5. This solid state drive will not play seriesX games on the drive only Xbox One games. So if you want to use it for last gen games its great but as for current gen it only archives and stores. I all you want is an external drive to play your last gen games on your SeriesX you would prolly want to get the conventional external Black Game drive. Its at least cheaper!

The drive is kinda cool looking, like armored, and potentially could help dissipate heat. But thats where the honeymoon is over. The drive seldom achieves above 550MB/s under ideal conditions, so about 25% of its clearly-inflated published throughput. My old Crucial X8, which this was SUPPOSED to replace, gets double that speed, its actual published rating as well.

This not just an SSD (solid state drive)

Using it for my PS4 games on PS5. Its loading the games just about as fast as on internal storage (I assume due to speed limitations with PS4 titles on PS5). This is good though, so I can save internal storage for PS5 games.