WD_BLACK 1TB P50 Game Drive SSD - Portable External Solid State Drive, Compatible with Playstation, Xbox, PC, & Mac, Up to 2,000 MB/s - WDBA3S0010BBK-WESN

Works great with PS5

Better small but strong durable

What we needed was a reliable hard drive for our Xbox. This set up easily and games are running well off of it. My family plays mostly rpg type games and nobody has complained about the speed of loading or playing.

I bought this SSD after reading on-line reviews for the best PS5 external drives. Every PS4 game I have played, plays just as well through this drive as they did on my PS4 Pro. And I play high density graphical games like ESO on-line, Borderlands 3, Call of Duty. Downloading and installing, to this drive, is extremely fast. Once installed on the PS5 this drive automatically defaults for all PS4 downloads whether from a disk or streaming.

Unfortunately the gaming world has yet to properly come up with a way for an individual to actually add proper memory to their console without opening it up. Does the SSD game drive allow you to store info on it? Yes. Does it mean that your game was now put into the SSD? Yes. So you’re going to have to reinstall it onto your gaming console, which is significantly faster, like way faster - minutes as opposed hours, but you still have to reinstall. Also, it gets hot. Really hot so make sure it’s not on top of it too close to sides of PS5. Otherwise it overheats and will interrupt your game to tell you so you’re probably gonna get shot or miss that jump lol. For PS4 games it holds many and is an easier conversion but was really trying to allow the hubs to expand his newest COD game to be able to play campaigns which takes a bunch of memory. Although the SSD helps with what we needed, anytime we want to play a game we previously downloaded we have to reinstall quickly and in which case often removes other info on console to make space for new game. I am going to attempt second option where I will physically open console and add memory within the unit since gaming websites suggest anyone who is semi tech savvy to upgrade memory like that. PS Website has similar info but obviously doesn’t tell you to take apart your unit lol.

I like everything about this. Price for what you get is great. Transfer speeds are fantastic. I plug it into the high speed USB port on my Xbox, boom, games load in moments. Only weird thing is that it gets really hot.

The best thing about a product like this is its ease of use. You plug it in, its formatted and ready to go with no setup required by the user. For more advanced users its incredibly easy to use requiring virtually no setup.

I plugged this into my M1 Mac Mini and transferred some data over. Started getting errors and disconnections within the first few hours of use. Returned to Amazon.

This thing is rugged and fast; I wish I needed another one but I don’t.

Not fast. Very slow on my new laptop.