Customer Ratings & Reviews

There isn't much to say when reviewing a hard drive or other storage device. It's a solid block of tech that holds your stuff (digitally speaking). Whatever its storage capacity is in Gigabytes or Terabytes determines how much stuff you can cram into it, and whatever its connection type is (USB 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, . . . etc.) determines how quickly you can move files to and from it. It either holds enough of your stuff or it doesn't, and it's either fast enough for your needs or it isn't. What ultimately differentiates a "good" storage device from a "bad" storage device is how well it's designed and how well that design fits your individual needs. This WD gaming drive is relatively thin, fast, solidly built, and aesthetically "meh." My only real complaints about it is that I wouldn't have minded a slightly longer cable, and I would have preferred a different color scheme. I was a little surprised to see that the drive has a micro-USB 3.0 (3.1?) port instead of USB type-C. This could make it a little difficult to find a replacement cord should something happen to the cord that came with it. I say that the design is "meh" because I'm not all that keen on the whole "corrugated metal" look it has going on. It reminds me of a shipping container. I will give WD brownie points though for using a metal shell instead of plastic. I'm also not all that keen on the current trend of black and white tech. I'd have preferred black and traditional Xbox Green or maybe black and red. The drive is formatted as NTFS out of the box and is also compatible with Windows computers. 2TB is a pretty good amount of storage space. If you figure that an average game is around 50GB, then this drive should be able to hold around 30-40 games (assuming that's all you put on it). The drive seems fairly fast. It's not the fastest hard drive that I've ever seen, but it doesn't take years to transfer files on and off of it either. The drive is fairly small, and it won't take up a lot of shelf space. It looks like it's about the same size as a 2.5" SATA, laptop hard drive; but it's a little thinner. I think that this is a solid drive for your gaming setup, and I would recommend picking one up.

WD_BLACK P10 2TB Game Drive for Xbox External USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5GB/s) Portable Hard Drive USB Type-A to Micro-B cable. This is of course an HDD not an SDD. The read speed on the box says up to 140 MB/s while on the web page it says 130 MB/s. While the drive is fast enough for me it might not be for others. What I have seen stated though it is not fast enough for XBOX Series S/X exclusive or optimized games. So this drive is perfect for either backing up your games and taking with you or storing older games while leaving space on your internal drive for newer games. Drive is 2.5 " thin and white on bottom and edges and black on top with XBOX logo. Looks cool and matches well with either series. Can't find what the case is made of but appears to be plastic and feels like it could survive some falls. Cable supplied is 19 inches and long enough to sit next to your XBOX. Drive is quiet and comes already formated for PC. When I plugged it into my XBOX it asks if I want to use it as a media drive or for installing games. When I chose installing games it took less than a second to format. Overall this is a good drive to have for transporting games to friends homes but not good for playing XBOX Series S/X exclusive or optimized games.

If you have the new series X or S then you know that 1TB of storage isn't a lot when you consider the size of some games today. But this can be a great cost effective work around if you have a lot of previous gen games downloaded. So to play the new Series S or X games you need the $219 SSD from Microsoft. This is a great cost saving storage option that is way cheaper than the SSD and still allows you to play games. This will allow you to play all your Xbox One Games from the drive. So games like Warzone, Modern Warfare, Fortnite and such will work just fine when moved over to this, and that frees up room on your built in storage for your next gen games to be played. A good cost cutting alternative and highly recommended.

Bought as a present and was told it was easy to hook up and just what was needed for extra storage space