Review on 5 TB External HDD Western Digital WD_BLACK P10 Game Drive, USB 3.2 Gen 1, black by Alvin Hltan ᠌

Name: 5 TB External HDD Western Digital WD_BLACK P10 Game Drive, USB 3.2 Gen 1, black
Item: 5 TB External HDD Western Digital WD_BLACK P10 Game Drive, USB 3.2 Gen 1, black
Rating: 1

April 12, 2023

Terrible quality, disappointed with the purchase.

A few months after the purchase, this disk began to make a strange noise, crackle, as if an obstacle appeared on the disk in one place and the head constantly stumbles behind it every turn of the disk when the disk is spinning.

Attached photos - this is how it hangs for hours and days in data transfer from it, even 1 GB of data is almost impossible to copy from it !

If anyone knows what could be wrong, please tell me!
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Pros

Large volume 4 TB. The previous price for January 2022, now it has become incredibly expensive!

Cons

I'm absolutely horrified with this CD! Before buying, I looked that this is the most reliable 4 TB hdd, the reviews are the best, everyone has almost 5 stars, but I don’t understand what happened to my disk! A year has not yet passed, bad sectors appeared on this disk, but the most important thing is that it began to freeze incredibly and work extremely very slowly, at least 1000 times slower than it should normally be, it is simply impossible to use it! Only 1.5 hours after turning on the computer, it starts to read, it takes several minutes to open one folder on it, sometimes more than 10 minutes, files from it are copied to another medium at an incredibly low speed, only about 10 KB per second instead of 10 MB per second! It is impossible to work on it, the files do not open at all, it hangs for hours, the whole computer hangs when this disk is turned on, sometimes the whole computer has to be forced to abruptly restart because it completely hangs with this disk, nothing can be done on it ! As a result, 1 GB of data can copy several hours, in 2 days I copied only about 2-3 GB from this disk instead of 10 minutes if there was a normal speed! It just has a non-working speed, the whole day will pass faster before you have time to open any file on this disk or copy at least 1-2GB of data from this disk, for the whole day you can not have time to open any file on this disk or copy at least 1-2GB of data from this disk, this disk and the whole computer just hangs completely for hours and does not load anything ! As a result, instead of a few seconds on a normal disk on this disk and for the whole day, you may not have time to open and access any files ! Only 1.5 hours is required for the computer to recognize, initialize, read this disk, before that it either cannot be read at all in the computer for 1.5 hours, or it writes to the local disk, that is, it could not be completely recognized and read, and the whole computer hangs incredibly strong and long when this drive is connected!

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Boyan Kolev ᠌

July 14, 2023

Pros below: Beautiful design, aluminum body. No extra power, no extra wires. Has cons: Due to the aluminum case, there will be wear and tear if you look for it with you.

Kiril Darakchiiski ᠌

July 13, 2023

Has pros: Large volume Strong body Stylish look With its cons. no information protection (data encryption)

Petar Marchovski ᠌

July 13, 2023

Some pros: Large volume Strong body Stylish look Different cons: no information protection (data encryption)

Micha Kochaski ᠌

July 04, 2023

I use it for archiving. Rarely works. Now I want the same one, but bigger.

Mateusz Swierczynski ᠌

May 30, 2023

With its pros. Great compact hard drive Some cons: The wire that came with the kit had a usb type A connector instead of the usb type C that was listed in the description and, in fact, was required. I had to order separately.

Stanislaw Mlekodaj ᠌

May 29, 2023

Some pros: A beautiful honest HDD on 5Tb, I took it as an additional memory on PS5, it sees and works perfectly. Different cons: Perhaps the only downside is the price. Although in this volume one of the most accessible