Friday, September 13th 2019
Western Digital Unveils WD_BLACK Gaming Storage Lineup
Western Digital unveiled a full fledged lineup of WD_BLACK series gaming storage devices. With it, the company is branching out WD_BLACK as its new brand targeted at the gaming crowd, both PC and console. The WD_BLACK brand is a divergence from the company's classic Western Digital Caviar Black line of premium internal hard drives. The brand had a rebirth of sorts with the WD_BLACK SN750 M.2 NVMe SSDs. Its designers are launching several new products, including the WD_BLACK P10 portable hard drive, the WD_BLACK D10 external desktop hard drive, the WD_BLACK P50 portable SSD, and Xbox One variants of the P10 and D10.
The WD_BLACK P10 is a pocket-size portable hard drive with a single USB 3.1 cable needed for both power and connectivity. It comes in 2 TB, 4 TB, and 5 TB capacities. Its Xbox One variant has the Xbox One decal on its body, and includes a 2-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription. The WD_BLACK D10 is meant to sit on your desk with its separate power and host-connectivity cables. It also puts out USB type-A high current ports to recharge your wireless gaming peripherals. The base variant of the WD_BLACK D10 comes in 8 TB capacity, while the D10 Xbox One edition comes with 12 TB capacity and a 3-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Lastly, there's the WD_BLACK P50. This portable SSD encloses an NVMe drive that serves up sequential transfer rates of up to 2000 MB/s by utilizing USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) interface. A single cable handles power and host connectivity. It comes in capacities of 500 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB.
The WD_BLACK P10 is a pocket-size portable hard drive with a single USB 3.1 cable needed for both power and connectivity. It comes in 2 TB, 4 TB, and 5 TB capacities. Its Xbox One variant has the Xbox One decal on its body, and includes a 2-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription. The WD_BLACK D10 is meant to sit on your desk with its separate power and host-connectivity cables. It also puts out USB type-A high current ports to recharge your wireless gaming peripherals. The base variant of the WD_BLACK D10 comes in 8 TB capacity, while the D10 Xbox One edition comes with 12 TB capacity and a 3-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Lastly, there's the WD_BLACK P50. This portable SSD encloses an NVMe drive that serves up sequential transfer rates of up to 2000 MB/s by utilizing USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) interface. A single cable handles power and host connectivity. It comes in capacities of 500 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB.
43 Comments on Western Digital Unveils WD_BLACK Gaming Storage Lineup
not even an updated SN750 m.2 wtf ????
back to nappy time now :)
The current game consoles are pretty slow for storage options (internal and external) with ~120MB/s USB 3.0 and 300MB/s internal seeming to be the current-gen maximums from details i found on reddit... so what in alabama is the point of a 12TB external drive for the xbox one?
What's wrong with 3.5" HDD? :o
I'm not an avid gamer, but I filled my Xbox One S' 1TB in few months. It's even worse on Xbox One X.
Complains about the tiny drive are omnipresent on forums and in reviews. You must not be following the console market very much...
Next generation brings 4K as standard and maybe 8K. Better IQ and RTRT will have a role as well.
Current external Xbox drives are up to 4TB.
12TB for next gen absolutely makes sense.Yeah. And PC gaming is so 1995-ish?
3.5" HDDs are a convenient standard and they'll stay with us for a while.
Seriously, you can't expect the whole world to dump cheap drives just because people on gaming forums find them archaic...
I'm pretty sure WD can make you a HDD with RGB LEDs if that helps...You have a WD HDD in your PC specs...
They are just plain old boring external drives at limited speeds, nothing 'gamer' about them in any way.
:(
What turns hardware into "gaming hardware" in your world? :o
Lets say someone spends his budget on CPU, GPU and RAM, resulting it many many fps, but he just isn't that concerned about slightly longer loading times.
Does he own a gaming PC?
Are there any other "banned parts"? Intel stock cooler? Business cases without plexi? Membrane keyboards? :-)
I'm only curious if it works though.
The xbox 1 HDD however is completely sealed unless you want to tear apart the the box and do some pretty deep software surgery to get it working.
2TB in my PS4 Pro is so so nice and a lot of games benefit greatly from the SSD speeds for reduced loading times even if the SATA3 is still limited by the OS.