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

Runs my COD Cold War well.

I am using this drive for PS5 expansion. It gets very warm almost hot to the touch even when NOT being accessed (playing games from internal) and just being connected. I cant imagine this lasting very long, heat destroys electronics causing to fail prematurely. Maybe this is not an issue for a PC but for PS5 it is.

If you are looking for a good external SSD to use for PS4 games on the PS5, look no further. Fast, fast, fast so long as you use the included usb c to usb c port. Load times are just as good as internal ssd.

Small portable ssd and super fast performance with massive 3.68tb of storage space. If you have massive digital library of games like me. Holds my entire PS4 catalog with 1.8 free space have 103 games on it. Games runs way better than on my old PS4 Pro with ssd no more loud fan for certain games. Since putting games on portable ssd I see no or hardly difference to loading times for most part. If you need the space and have the money its worth it.

This not just an SSD (solid state drive)

This has all the basics covered as far as being easy to hook up, easy to use once its hooked up, and having quite a bit of capacity as SSDs go. For purely practical purposes, it checks all the boxes that I look for. On the less purely practical side, Ill note that it looks like the design is intended to lean it toward looking like its some kind of military item, which will make it a nice thematic fit if youre thinking about gifting it to someone who especially loves shooter (especially military shooter) games. Keep in mind that an SSD is expensive, but if youre looking to use it on the go a lot, or to give it to someone whos going to be traveling, moving, or just taking the drive with them to play at friends homes a lot, an SSD has fewer moving parts than a hard drive and is much less likely to make someone suffer the grief of a drive that failed from being shaken up too much. Theyre also very very fast. The only situation where you really dont want an SSD is when spending needs to be kept to a bare minimum (and ideally you dont expect to be moving it around much).

This drive gets overheated constantly and Ive tried everything to keep it cool. Right in the middle of a game itll happen and totally screw you

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.

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.

I like everything about this. Price for what you get is great. Transfer speeds are fantastic. I plug it into the high speed USB port on my Xbox, boom, games load in moments. Only weird thing is that it gets really hot.