WD_BLACK 8TB D10 Game Drive – Portable External Hard Drive HDD Compatible with Playstation, Xbox, PC, & Mac – WDBA3P0080HBK-NESN

Great External HD
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.

Holds a lot of Space!
Holds a lot of space, great for Xbox Series X!

Rugged, good performance, runs a bit hot.
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.

Dead on arrival
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.

Works well with a PS4. Stores well over 200 games. Formats to 7.35Gb of usable storage. 110v to 240v power adapter, but has USA pin spacing (can twist pins for use in other countries). Recommend. Hopefully it lasts!

This is a excellent drive, after one years of use never have any issue. Its fast(7200 rpm) load Xbox one X game a lot faster than the original drive (Forza Horizon 4 take 35 sec in quality mod VS more than a minute with the Xbox drive), easy to set up, stylish, a lot of space, top quality disk drive (its a Ultrastar DC HC320), work on every platforme, 3 years warranty and even faster on PC. You can play your game directly on it and it will not overheatvor have any other issu. But it not perfect, its big, need it own plug and can be a little noisy at time (not for a quiet room, me it in my living room behind my TV so when i play i don’t heard it). Don’t use that fo Xbox Serie X, you will probably only able to play backward compatible game directly one it, for Xbox Series X game you can only use it has a storage solution. To play game you will need to transfert your game directly on the SSD of the console, so not a perfect solution. I presume on PS5 it a similar story. The reason it the new console are built to take advantage of the SSD and its speed, and in comparaison this disk drive is 8 or 9 time slower than those new custom SSD.