Western Digital has announced a new range of WD_Black storage solutions targeted at gaming. The new range includes five new hard drive and solid-state drive solutions purposely built for gaming. Whatever your gaming platform, Western Digital aims to provide a product for you. Be it a massive external hard drive for PC and consoles or super-fast internal SSDs for lightning-fast load times.
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The Western Digital Black range includes SSDs with up to 2TB of storage and even a whopping 12TB external drive. Some of the drives also include subscriptions to your favourite gaming services such as Xbox Game Pass.
WD_Black P10 Game Drive for Xbox One
- Up to 5TB of storage
- USB 3.2 Gen 1
- Includes two-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription
- Three-year limited warranty
- Price – R1,799 for 2TB / R2,305 for 3TB / R2,949 for 5TB
WD_Black P50 Game Drive
- Up to 2TB SSD NVMe
- USB 3.2 with speeds up to 2000MB/s
- Five-year limited warranty
WD_Black D10 Game Drive
- Up to 8TB storage
- Speeds up to 250MB/s and rated with 7200RPM with active cooling technology
- Three-year limited warranty
- Price – R4,715
WD_Black D10 Game Drive for Xbox One
- Up to 12TB storage
- Includes a three-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription
- Speeds up to 250MB/s and rated with 7200RPM with active cooling technology
- Three-year limited warranty
- Price – R7,049
Western Digital claims that all Black storage solutions except for the P50 SSD will be available this quarter in SA. Pricing and release date for the 2TB SSD drive has yet to be confirmed. Keep in mind that while these drives say “Xbox One” you can use them for any console and platform. You can find out more about the devices here.
