The wd_black D10 game Drive will take your console or PC to the next level and help you keep the competitive edge you need to win. Add up to 8TB of extra storage to your device to build up your game library up to 200 games, or Relive your best in-action moments by saving your favorite game play recordings. Rated at 7200 RPM with Active cooling technology, wd_black D10 game Drive has speeds up to 250MB/s to kick your game into high-performance mode so you can play without limits and drive your game The way you choose. | Number of games based on a 36GB average per game. The number of games will vary based on File size, formatting, other programs, and factors. Based on read speed and internal testing. As used for transfer rate, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second. Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations.
Extra storage to capture and collect your best in-screen game captures.Specific uses: Gaming
Speed up to 250 MB/s rated at 7200RPM with active cooling technology to help you stay in the game.
Features two 7.5W USB Type-A charging ports to charge your gaming gear and accessories.
Purpose-built for gamers based on WD_Black quality and reliability.
Customers say
Customers find the external hard drive works seamlessly with PS5 and serves as an excellent gaming drive, providing extra space for games and media storage. They appreciate its ease of setup and consider it good value for money. The drive’s speed receives mixed feedback – while some report 200+ MB/s write speed, others find it very slow. Build quality and noise level also get mixed reviews, with some finding it reliable while others report it breaking within six months, and several customers note it’s pretty noisy.
S.H.H. Nosenbook –
Good product
Came in on time, well packaged. It works well. There is too long hesitancy when first accessing the drive. But once you start working on it, it’s fast. Next day, you start up and it hesitates a good minute before accessing the drive, but then it works like a charm. I can look past the initial hesitancy just wondering why it does it. No problems with startup use, everything went smooth.
SideWinder –
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.
Poc Network // Tech –
Fast! Built tough! Runs cool(er)!
We love the WD_Black D10 series 12TB External Gaming Drive. It makes for a great external solution for both PCs as well as past gaming consoles. I say past because the ones launching next month are going to work best with NVMe SSD solutions when it comes to taking advantage of the proper load times and frame rates.This also makes for a great general external storage solution for everything else, although there are a few more affordable 12TB-14TB solutions on sale recently if you don’t need the boost in speed this has to offer. This is the only thing that would have dropped the score on this one is how expensive it is (but only if we could have dropped it by half a star, which we cannot sadly).Is the drive a little louder than some? Yes, it can be. Is it annoying? Not really, unless you sit it too close to you are you are using it. If it is under a desk or has some distance between you and where it sits, it isn’t as noticeable. If you had any experience with the type of drive that is inside, you’d fully understand this and expect it.How much faster is it? This can vary depending on the speed of the drive sending information to it with, as well as the type of files (quantity, size, etc). It varies if you are actively writing to it vs transferring a file. This is the same with any drive. However, usually everyone likes to base everything on the write speed of file transfers, and in that case, the average speed was around 230MB/s. Faster than your typical 5400rpm external drive, but not going to change your life or anything. It’s just there if require the extra speed. This also depends on the drive you’d be comparing it to–old or modern, which could make the difference anywhere between 50-100MB/s faster than these other HDD options.It’s nice to have a fan already inside since if you abuse your external drives with constant large transfers and monitored their temps. you’d realize many of them like to get quite a bit hot. So having a fan inside already helps prolong the life of the drive.**If you have found our review helpful, please vote it as helpful below so we know. This helps us to provide quality feedback in the future.
David M Gorfine –
Plays PS4 games on PS5
Quick, formatted on my PS5, moved PS4 games from internal storage onto it, plays from there just fine.
TCzar –
Fully functional outside of Xbox usage.
I needed a 12TB HDD to backup my NAS. This unit was significantly less expensive than units not earmarked for Xbox, I suspect because the accompanying coupon for Microsoft Games services paid part of the freight. Anywayu, despite the Xbox decoration, it worked just fine as a standard 12TB HDD in backing up my NAS.
CliffJ –
Tested with CrystalDiskMark6, the result was very good, slightly better than claimed:255MB/s r – 255MB/s wSeems other people were saying it’s noisy but IMO the noise is more or less the same in comparison to my Seagate IronWolf 10TB, both are 7200 rpm drives. Now scanning disk surfaces, hopefully there is no bad sectors out of the box.
Humberto Jose Eduardo Orihuela Garcia –
Execelente HDD para el almacenamiento de juegos y demás contenido multimedia. Un excelente compañero para el Xbox One
Seb Dulo –
Lo uso para respaldos de información, guardo librerías de música East West y Kontakt, corre de maravilla, copié todo de una sola intención, más de 1 millón de archivos pequeños aprox 4TB sin problema, 250 MB/s en archivos RAR, ha estado días encendido, hace un ruido extraño cada cierto tiempo pero es normal, lo corro a través de un dock Rosonway USB 3.0 Powered, conectado a un supresor de picos Koblenz.
Guillaume Lanouette –
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.
Trent Diamond –
Great, no issues here. Does what it says it does.