WD 500GB WD_BLACK D30 Game Drive USB 3.2 Gen 2 External SSD for Xbox

After buying this drive and running it on new console (series x xbox) I have had literally ZERO problems from the drive and I've seen transfer speeds quoted by xbox system that are faster than the quoted max speeds!! Now here's the thing , the series x needs much higher speeds to run series x/s native games than it does to run older xbox one titles or new titles that are not enhanced for series x/s. So you must install these games on the internal SSD. Any external drive , no matter how fast will (according to the console) not be fast enough to run these enhanced games directly off the external drive. However ANY game that isn't marked SERIES X/S definately WILL run directly off the external drive perfectly well. (Some titles marked X/S can manage to but not many, always worth a try ,it won't hurt , the console will just say " drive not fast enough ) Now this means if you want dozens and dozens of enhanced x/s games on your system at the same time and you run out of space you CAN transfer a game to and from the external WD BLACK drive , shifting the one you want to play onto internal and moving one you won't want to play for now onto the external. A bit annoying yes but STILL much much faster than downloading over the net etc. Even with a 1TB Internet line from virgin media(uks fastest) you rarely see over 700mbps and often much less(@400mbps-600mbps). Transferring files from internal xbox to the wd black I have seen anything from 2.35GBps down to @400MBps depending on file sizes but I would say it averages at much higher, 1.5GBps would be my guess. If it's a small game of 1 or 2 Gb it seems to fly accross from one drive to another and of the game is a huge 100 Gb or more it might start the transfer at 2.3Gbps and slow down in places to 400mbps or jump back up to 1Gbps, it's hard to really know what it will do. But this is down to whether there are thousands of small files or 1 huge data file that needs to be gathered up and pasted accross (at least that's my guess) ALL I know is this. this little 500gb ssd is amazingly fast when it's asked to be fast. And it's faster than my virgin 1TB Internet download speed (and that's pretty damed quick). I've seen reviewers in here saying "my xbox said this drives too slow" talking like this is WDBlack SSDs fault and it simply isn't. This drive performs well and has been flawless even when filled to 96%capacity or down to 30% and back again. I've used it to transfer huge 100GB games to amd from my xbox Internal drive and from as far as I can tell there's been ZERO errors! No game has been swapped and subsequently failed to work, none have ever slowed down to a crawl during swaps which I have seen happen with my other older HDD 4TB drive which I used to back up some games. This little SSD has convinced me that SSDs are without doubt the way to go for the future. Once the larger sizes like 4TB are more affordable I think it will see an end to HDD forever. And btw another thing, I knocked my SSD drive onto the floor and thought "oh no that's gotta be broken" because I'm so used to an accident like that breaking any old HDD I've had but it didn't do anything. It's carried on working flawlessly which is another great feature when you have solid chips storing the data in SSDs and not delicate spinning discs like HDDs. If you own a console, you need a bit more space, you can't afford , or don't want to pay over £100 or more to expand your storage but STILL want a fast way to keep more games 'at the ready' to swap back and forth or keep older generation titles ready to play on to save space in your even faster running INTERNAL drive. This is a GREAT choice. I have not regretted buying and using mine. So much so in fact I'm now eyeing those lovely P50 WD SSD drives with their EVEN FASTER USB-C 3.2 gen 2 connections!! In case you don't know this D30 WD SSD we are talking about is a USB-C 3.2 gen 1 connection which in theory has a limit of 10GBps transfer speed , the gen 2 version should allow 20GBps max transfer. If I knew that new P50 drive would be DOUBLE the speed of the old D30 I might consider getting one. You just need to do your homework to find out, though the whole USB-C thing is VERY confusing. There's like 4 or 5 versions/generations to choose from!! (Again , NOT Western Digitals fault)

why has there not been a cable developed that can take the place of the xbox expansion card to plug this drive into the series X|S. I have a hard time believing that the only way to make that expansion port work is to use an over priced expansion card from Seagate. i understand using SSD is quicker than convantional HDD but this is an SSD drive meaning it should have the same speed as the expansion card. develope a cable that can be used to connect SSD drives like this to the xbox series X|S.

It'll still operate on NEXT GEN like other SSD for Xbox One. But can't access quick resume and other features like other SSD's for XBox one. SAYS IT IN #4 OF “DISCLOSURES" READ THE FINE PRINT BEFORE COMPLAINING FOLKS!!!