WD_BLACK D10 Game Drive 8TB USB Portable External Hard Drive (WDBA3P0080HBK-NESN)

We love this drive on the Playstation 5. It was a great choice so glad I didn't worry about speed and get the 2TB Solid State for more money. No play lag issues so far and not noisy by my standards as other reviewers have mentioned. Unboxing & PS5 Setup: https://youtu.be/oQtQPF1ccC0 Follow Up with Copy Speed from PS5 Internal to WD Black D10: https://youtu.be/nNhef6tBc1I

Don’t buy a PS5 without this ! Sony didn’t tell you storage goes fast with PS4 games and media apps. If you sign up for PS Now your gonna need storage , BAD!!! And you can charge up your controllers freeing up usb slots on your game system. It just works hand and hand. Your gonna need at least 5GB of storage choose wisely

Awsome loveing that i have more storage for my ps4 games on my ps5 wish they made a bigger Terra bite than the 8 thow but very simple and easy to use matches my blk ps5 perfectly

Pros: At the time of purchase this external 8TB drive what $40 cheaper than the same drive internal drive. It's fast, but not as fast as my Seagate Barracuda Pro 4TB external drive. Given it's twice the size for the same price it more than make up for the few seconds I have to wait to load games. Cons: It's a bit on the loud side and despite having the same cache size and RPM as my Seagate Barracuda Pro it's noticeably slower. My Seagate feels snappy, this drive to be honest feels like a fast 5400 RPM drive instead of 7200. However when you benchmark this drive it says 240 MBps read and 190 MBps write while my Seagate is 230 MBps read and write.

I purchased this drive for my Playstation 5 for external storage of Playstation 4 games library and hopefully in the future external backup of Playstation 5 games to offload the internal SSD (come on Sony give us a firmware update). The device aesthetic is very nice and I don't have any complaints about the build. The advertised read and write speeds are right in line with what Western Digital states are the speeds (see attached picture). I have seen people asking what drive is inside this external "WD_Black" series external drive. Well it's not a black series drive (Like the 8TB WD8001FZBX) but an HGST HUS728T8TALE6L4. This is not a bad thing as this is a data center-class hard drive and paying only $15-20 for a nice external enclosure. Be aware this is not 100% quiet as it is a full-size, higher-performing drive but is not annoying and probably cant be heard from 10 feet away if gaming from a distance. If you need an extremely quiet drive look at the Western Digital P10 Black series but you are not going to get this performance. I have to do further testing to see if the drive ever fully ramps down as it does seem like the platters tend to constantly spin just for longevity purposes.