WD BLACK 8TB D10 Game Drive - Portable External Hard Drive HDD Compatible with Playstation Xbox PC Mac

Overall this HD is great, and it was slightly faster than advertised! This drive is louder than my other Western Digital external hard drives which are smaller 5400rpm drives and don't require an external power supply, but they are about 60% slower than this beast. My 4GB WD HD gets about 108 MBPs and this 8TB WD HD gets 258 MBPs in CrystalDiskMark (USB 3.0)!!! The small amount of noise is acceptable to me especially for the speeds this thing produces. The noise is nothing like the clicking problem someone else had, but you can hear the drive head kick in from time to time. When the drive is not in use it doesnt make any noise, and it only reads 0.1 - 0.2 W on my KWH meter! I like the fact that it has an internal fan which I don't hear, but I do wish the whole thing was made of aluminum/metal instead of plastic, but then again I probably wouldn't like the price....Overall it looks and feels well built. The status light on the front of mine does not come on. I've never seen it come on, and this this is rather worrying but other than the status light the drive runs perfectly fine. I was going to cover the light due to where I have it placed so it did work out in my benefit, but it's slightly troubling... I feel like this drive offers a good cost to speed compromise. Regular external HD's are slower but slightly cheaper, solid state drives are faster but WAY more expensive for comparable space and have a caveat that they can only be written to so many times. Read more

I ultimately settled on having this as my backup drive. Its capacity was right, and my much smaller but faster solid state drive was more appropriate for my somewhat more meager than average storage needs for games. Being a Mac user, I completely ignored any and all software that came with it, while it was completely reformatted with APFS to work with the proprietary Time Machine backup software. It is working perfectly. Some have noted that this might not be a very fast drive in practice. The reality is that speeds are largely determined by USB version and your system's associated firmware. This drive runs on USB 3.0, or roughly up to 5gb transfer speeds. My SSD, in comparison, runs on 3.1, which is up to 10gb transfer speed (aka double). That technically makes the Black drive the second-fastest drive I ever owned. In practice, though, I don't really notice the difference between 5 and 10gb speeds. It is simply a fast hard drive, no matter how many hairs some might want to split. Others have also noted that it seemed to be a noisy drive. Well, hard disk drives have physical parts that make noise. You have to spend a lot more -- and still get less -- for a silent SSD. When in use, the Black drive might be a touch louder than other's I've owned, but all HDDs I've owned sounded somewhat different. A running AC and computer audio drown the sound out most of the time. Overall, a great all around HDD that also has a lot of aesthetic personality. Read more

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Excellent for storing many games especially if you have GamePass. Older games can be played directly from the dive without being on the XBox storage. Games optimized for series x|s do need to be on the XBox drive as they won't run from the WD Drive. The main drawback is the noise. The drive seems to run even when the console is turned off. But plug it in only to download games or to transfer a game to the Xbox on those times when it won't play from the drive and problem solved. Read more

I bought his WD drive to replace two failed Seagate external drives, one of which gave me several years of good service, but the other survived just a month or two past its warranty date. So far, I'm very pleased with this drive. The case is very rugged and it has an internal cooling fan with large ventilation slots along the top sides of the case. Despite the fan, though, the temperature is running a bit high (54 C). I noted other similar comments in the reviews before I bought it but those reviewers didn't consider it a problem. All the other attributes are running nominal so the higher temperature does not appear to be a problem on this one either. One thing I really like, compared to the Seagate drives, is the large LED on the front of the WD case which is easy to see. The Seagates had small dim LED lamps on the top rear of the cases which I couldn't see without getting up and leaning over my desk to look practically straight down at them. The WD case also comes with a very stable vertical stand, another plus because one of my old drives just sat on its edge and was very easily knocked over. The cable connector on the WD drive is also much better than my old drives which tended to disconnect at the drop of a hat. The WD also is a 7200 rpm drive, compared to 5400 for my old drives. There have been several complaints about this drive being noisy. I can hear it tapping very faintly once in a great while when it's handling large files, but the bulk of the time it is an extremely quiet drive. Overall, for the price, if it lasts, this seems to be an excellent choice. Read more

Easy to use, the larger size is useful for today's larger PS4 game saves, WD's storage devices are very reliable. Being a SSD drive will provide great storage read/write performance. Was very easy to connect with PS4. Read more

If I could leave zero stars, I would. This thing was dead on arrival after waiting nearly a month to receive. I plugged it in, it made an ugly sound, and then was never heard from again. Since my system never detected it I assume there was a manufacturing defect. Amazon was also frustrating to deal with for such a straightforward issue. Of course, when something like this happens, you are out of luck. I needed this for a project and now that project is stalled indefinitely as I go through the laborious return and refund process losing the deal I had on the drive as well as my time. Will I attempt to buy this one again just to potentially go through this all over again? I rather doubt it. Read more