Review ID: 28660

Review Text: Fast. Really Fast.. Admittedly the games for XBox these days are just beyond huge, rivaling and sometimes surpassing the size of their PC equivalents, so it's easy to find yourself running out of storage but not wanting to remove a game just to install something new. This is a concern because most external drives of any reasonable size are slow and with the performance one expects from the XBox, it's hard to live up to that performance with an external drive that's anything other than SSD with USB 3.2 Gen 2 performance. Enter the WD_BLACK 1TB external USB-C drive. This really is the solution to running out of disk space but not wanting to remove some games to install others. In terms of packaging and looks, it's actually very very small, due to the fact that it is an nVME SSD on the inside so it's smaller than even all standard SSDs. It comes with a vertical stand which is really personal preference on whether you want to use it. I've included a picture of it next to a standard Blu-Ray case to show the size. The performance from the drive is phenomenal. I connected it to my PC just for benchmarking purposes and it consistently reaches very near the advertised performance numbers, mine topping out right around 893MB/s. Included is a screenshot of expected performance numbers. It's really quite good for an external drive. In terms of gaming performance, I connected it to my XBox One S and loaded it up with Plants vs Zombies Battle for Neighborville which, to me, has always had somewhat of an obscene load time. I can tell you that this drive is at least equal in terms of loading and performance with the onboard drive in a real-world type scenario. In timing the loading of the game the difference was negligible as to not even be able really see the difference of the external vs internal drive. Really this is the solution to an undersized Xbox drive and not wanting to constantly reinstall games, particularly with the size of the installs and downloads these days. I strongly recommend this to anyone in the market for an external drive.

Gold Attribute: {'Storage Drive Type': 'ssd', 'Usage': 'gaming', 'Brand': 'wd', 'Color': 'black', 'Color Category': 'black', 'Storage Capacity': '1000 gigabytes'}

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