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

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.

Works great if you need more storage. Great product I would recommend to anyone who needs more space.

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.

The hard drive still works I bought it quite some time ago. The only negative I have is that the cord it takes is not as easy to find as some others and it broke super easily. Super easy to connect and figure out though. I do recommend.

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?

Easy to use and working great. Good brand.

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.