WD MY BOOK REVIEW FOR XBOX PORTABLE
Built as if to resemble an inconspicuous shipping container on a clandestine cargo ship carrying illicit black-market goods, yet audacious enough to have the actual name of the product, its function and capacity emblazoned across its metallic cooling cover in a Modern Warfare-inspired “top-secret dossier” typeface, the product certainly stands out, especially when compared to your average-looking portable hard drive. It can’t be denied that the P10’s casing design exudes a curiously rugged and mysterious style. “The P10’s casing design exudes a curiously rugged and mysterious style.” Enter the Western Digital 5TB WD Black P10 Game Drive, which immediately makes that distinction easy.
WD MY BOOK REVIEW FOR XBOX SERIES
Well, as you can probably imagine, at 7 months into the lifecycle of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles, next-gen game file sizes are ballooning and that Seagate drive of mine has been getting pretty full, which makes me think that there are several power users out there like me considering the eventual purchase of a second drive, ideally one that doesn’t look identical to the first. Even if it’s only used occasionally as a backup, a cheap and reliable external hard drive is an indispensable tool in just about any gamer’s arsenal. Having enough storage to keep my entire digital library of Xbox games at my fingertips without having to delete or redownload them is a huge time and bandwidth saver, as I’m sure many gamers will agree with me, regardless of platform.
This allows me to dedicate my console’s limited SSD space to newer and/or more demanding games that benefit from those faster drives the most, but it’s also possible to play just about any Xbox game directly off the mechanical drive, with slower load times being the only real drawback. Myself having splurged on the $300 CAD (!) Seagate 1TB Expansion Drive to bring my Xbox Series X’s SSD storage capacity up to a somewhat more manageable 2TB (I paid for half of it trades and regret nothing, okay?), my pocketbook knows the struggle all too well.īetween the games I am regularly playing on the weekly, games that I am reviewing, games that I am taking for a spin on Xbox Game Pass, and a rotating list of favourites on my backlog, both my Series X’s internal drive and the Seagate SSD are perpetually 70-80% full, with just under 400GB of leftover space reserved for emergencies (like the occasional impulse purchases that I want to play right away or temporary downloads related to the fulfillment of weekly and monthly Xbox Quests). If there’s one thing that the dawn of the 9 th Generation of Game Consoles has taught us, it’s that more than ever, storage space comes at a premium, especially when your next-generation console of choice comes with a built-in, non-swappable high-speed Solid-State Drive that is no larger than one terabyte in size.