Western Digital Unveils WD_BLACK Gaming Storage Lineup

btarunr · Sep 13, 2019

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.

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Chomiq · Sep 13, 2019

Gaming drive... 3.5" HDD. Ok...

bonehead123 · Sep 13, 2019

What a snoozefest....... nuthin new or exciting here...

not even an updated SN750 m.2 wtf ????

back to nappy time now

Mussels · Sep 13, 2019

I asked on their facebook post under what circumstance was an external USB hard drive good for gaming, and got nothing

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?

notb · Sep 13, 2019

Chomiq said:
Gaming drive... 3.5" HDD. Ok...

They come in many shapes.
What's wrong with 3.5" HDD? :eek:

bonehead123 · Sep 13, 2019

notb said:
They come in many shapes. What's wrong with 3.5" HDD?

There is nothing "wrong" with them per se, other than the fact that they are so 2002-ish, hahaha :eek:

Chomiq · Sep 13, 2019

notb said:
They come in many shapes.
What's wrong with 3.5" HDD?

Nothing, it's perfect for Xbox... 360.

notb · Sep 13, 2019

Mussels said:
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?

Slow connection, many games?
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.

bonehead123 said:
There is nothing "wrong" with them per se, other than the fact that they are so 2002-ish, hahaha

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...

Chomiq said:
Nothing, it's perfect for Xbox... 360.

You have a WD HDD in your PC specs...

Chomiq · Sep 13, 2019

notb said:
You have a WD HDD in your PC specs...

And I use it for media storage, not for gaming. This will come with "gamer" tax, regular SSD should be the entry unit, not an hdd.

Mussels · Sep 13, 2019

These are targeted at gamers, as gaming drives.
They are just plain old boring external drives at limited speeds, nothing 'gamer' about them in any way.

erek · Sep 13, 2019

Chomiq · Sep 13, 2019

erek said:
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Bend the rules!

Solid State Soul ( SSS ) · Sep 13, 2019

notb said:
I'm pretty sure WD can make you a HDD with RGB LEDs if that helps...

This made me chuckle

bonehead123 · Sep 13, 2019

erek said:
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Why/WTF ??????

notb · Sep 13, 2019

Chomiq said:
And I use it for media storage, not for gaming. This will come with "gamer" tax, regular SSD should be the entry unit, not an hdd.

Xbox users will likely also use these drives for media. Does it make the glass half-full?

Mussels said:
These are targeted at gamers, as gaming drives.
They are just plain old boring external drives at limited speeds, nothing 'gamer' about them in any way.

It's a drive for a gaming console that will containt (mostly) games. Where is it lacking in the "gamingness"?

What turns hardware into "gaming hardware" in your world? :eek:

Kohl Baas · Sep 13, 2019

notb said:
What turns hardware into "gaming hardware" in your world?

Guess that would be performance, or anything that improves your gaming experience, be that less lag, more FPS or less loading time.

notb · Sep 13, 2019

Kohl Baas said:
Guess that would be performance, or anything that improves your gaming experience, be that less lag, more FPS or less loading time.

"More performance" is not a proper definition. More than what? :-D

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?

Sybaris_Caesar · Sep 13, 2019

I kinda feel bad about WD and a little smidge for Seagate. I don't think they'll last very long tbh. At least WD bought Sandisk who iirc has some sort of deal with Toshiba for supply. But what about Seagate.

dinmaster · Sep 13, 2019

Screw wd. Ever since that flood in Taiwan years ago. Hdd prices have never come back to what it was before the flooding. They gave the excuse of having to cover the expenses to get back running. But the same and next quarter after showed record profits... if anyone remembers.

Dimi · Sep 13, 2019

erek said:
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OMFG someone forgot to put the standoff in! Jesus that hurts to watch lol.

I'm only curious if it works though.

Ruru · Sep 13, 2019

Isn't the standoff used as the mounting screw in that pic? Probably took advice from The Verge's PC building video.

E-curbi · Sep 13, 2019

Chloe Price said:
Isn't the standoff used as the mounting screw in that pic? Probably took advice from The Verge's PC building video.

hellrazor · Sep 13, 2019

Mussels said:
I asked on their facebook post under what circumstance was an external USB hard drive good for gaming, and got nothing

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?

You can just up and replace the drive on a PS4 with an SSD, it just requires you to properly copy the old drive to the new one. I don't know about the Xbox one, though.

Arct1c0n · Sep 13, 2019

hellrazor said:
You can just up and replace the drive on a PS4 with an SSD, it just requires you to properly copy the old drive to the new one. I don't know about the Xbox one, though.

Nope, thats the beauty of what Sony did for the PS4 vs MS, user accessible and replaceable 2.5'' drive access. However you can only "Copy" the drive from PS4 to PS4, or you need to reinstall the OS via USB or internet on new drive and reinstall games.

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.

lexluthermiester · Sep 14, 2019

erek said:
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That is just messed up! :eek:

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