WD_BLACK 5TB P10 Game Drive, Portable External Hard Drive, Works with Playstation, Xbox, & PC – WDBA3A0050BBK-WESN

Solid performance and cool operation – surprisingly good for a 4800 RPM drive
I accidentally bought this thinking it was another one of their full-size drives in a similar looking, but considerably larger enclosure. Oops. I figured, might as well make the best of it, 5TB of storage is 5TB of storage (well… let’s get real… it’s that marketing “TB,” not what your computer’s file system calls a TB, so it’s more like 4 TB and some change of storage). I digress.In using it I was pleasantly surprised by the solid transfer speed, staying around 100 MB per second transferring large files (which is better than I have had from any drive this small and this slow-spinning previously) – often drives like this will transfer at a solid speed ’til they run out of cache, then slow down, but this one holds the speed well ’til the whole job is done.I was also very impressed with its cool operation. As mentioned I thought it was one of the bigger ones in a similar enclosure, because I already have one of those, and even with its small fan active it runs 10-15C hotter than this smaller drive. Granted, it transfers more quickly as it is a full size 7200 RPM drive, but for the sake of longevity keeping temps below 50C is a great mark in this smaller drive’s favor.Having got one, I’m now keen to get a few more. They take up so little space and offer a solid amount of storage for the price. I recommend it.

You can’t go wrong with Western Digital
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, I’ve 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 doesn’t seem to be any slower than launching them from the internal hard drive, at least I haven’t noticed any difference in the load times by subjective evaluation. When running continuously, like during a game transfers, the drive gets warm but doesn’t seem to get hot enough where I would be concerned.The only major down side to this drive, and it’s a flaw with most of the 2.5″ based WD portable drives, is that they put the drive’s 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 it’s 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. It’s 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 doesn’t bother me at all since I’m not planning to tear this thing apart and I haven’t 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 can’t disassemble this bad boy and pop the drive into something else or use the enclosure with a different 2.5″ HD.I’ve 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 PS4’s internal drive, and it had already been upgraded to a 2TB drive. This is a much better option than cutting up the PS4’s 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 PS4’s storage capacity.

Ótimo produto, já estou usando a bastante tempo

Primero me llamo la atención su diseño porque parece un contenedor y la parte de arriba es de aluminio que ayuda a disipar mejor el calor, que no es mucho (~40°). Lo compré para almacenar juegos y datos de mi PC y hasta ahora (3 meses aprox.) estoy muy satisfecho. Es un poco más rápido a los convencionales, te ahorras unos segundos en las pantallas de carga y tienes la confianza de la marca en cuestión de durabilidad. Su instalación fue fácil, solo conectas por USB y tuve que formatear a NFTS porque lo uso en Windows; un punto importante a mencionar es que NO puedes quitar la carcasa y hacerlo interno ya que tiene soldada la conexión, pero al ser externo lo hace dinámico a cualquier uso. Por último, compré la versión de 5tb en una oferta muy buena ($2500) por lo que si valió la pena.————————————————————————————————————————-ACTUALIZACIÓN 2 AÑOS DESPUÉS:El disco empezó a tener sectores defectuosos, corrompiendo el sistema de archivos y ralentizando la PC. La partición se conviertió en ‘RAW data’ haciendolo inaccesible a mi información contenida. Intenté distintas formas de repararlo pero el problema era más grave, un desastre. Consulto la supuesta garantía de 3 años y dice fuera de región! y aunque fuese respetada tienes que hacerte cargo de todo los costos que conlleva la devolución y reemplazo del producto. Decepcionante el tiempo que duró funcionando y el servicio de esta marca.

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