5TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive
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Best Buy has 5TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBAJP0050BBK-WESN) on sale for $89.99. Shipping is free, or select free curbside pickup where stock permits. Thanks Dealhunter30
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This price matches several previous Frontpage deals for this hard drive. -Corwin
smr is best for drives that don't get written too very much. Lots of reads and for backup storage, and smr is fine. Otherwise it can be slow and works very hard at killing itself.
Lmfao. I think you mean shuckable.
I bought two of these 5TB to try out. Ran the default CrystalDiskMark test on one. Got up to 130MBs Read, 124MB/s write. Hooked it up to my PS4 and tried a few games. Seems to work fine and about as fast as my internal Firecuda SSHD 2TB. It does get fairly warm though.. But if you plan to transfer a lot of large games to it, you will be waiting a long time. I found a 2GB game could take only a few minutes. But something that is 30GB will take 25min or more. So transferring 2-3 terrabytes to this drive could take all day. I wish I had my PS5 to try it. But think I'll get a regular SSD instead for it. These mechanical drives are definitely not fast enough anymore for large files sizes.
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was thinking about getting this drive for the PS5(to put PS4 games on it) just wasn't sure if it was compatible with the ps5 been reading issues that some have been having with external storage
was thinking about getting this drive for the PS5(to put PS4 games on it) just wasn't sure if it was compatible with the ps5 been reading issues that some have been having with external storage
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11-22-2020 at 01:37 PM.
smr technology. Pass.
smr is best for drives that don't get written too very much. Lots of reads and for backup storage, and smr is fine. Otherwise it can be slow and works very hard at killing itself.
I think it supports external drives but doesn't play ps5 games from them. You need to move games to the internal storage to play them.
On another note. Solid deal. Regularly goes on sale for this price. I got it at this price in August. Great drive for PS4.
So from your analysis, it play PS4 games from the drive, correct? Wander if it play PS4 games if the drive is connect to PS5. If not, might have to spend $10 more to buy WD Black version. Any difference between easystore and black?
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smr is best for drives that don't get written too very much. Lots of reads and for backup storage, and smr is fine. Otherwise it can be slow and works very hard at killing itself.
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Specs don't list what drive is inside. Is it SMR?
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Thought ps5 doesn't support external drives?
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smr is best for drives that don't get written too very much. Lots of reads and for backup storage, and smr is fine. Otherwise it can be slow and works very hard at killing itself.
I think it supports external drives but doesn't play ps5 games from them. You need to move games to the internal storage to play them.
On another note. Solid deal. Regularly goes on sale for this price. I got it at this price in August. Great drive for PS4.
On another note. Solid deal. Regularly goes on sale for this price. I got it at this price in August. Great drive for PS4.
So from your analysis, it play PS4 games from the drive, correct? Wander if it play PS4 games if the drive is connect to PS5. If not, might have to spend $10 more to buy WD Black version. Any difference between easystore and black?