SanDisk has
2TB WD Black D30 Game Drive External Solid State Drive for Xbox/PC (WDBAMF0020BBW-WESN) for
$108 when you follow the steps below.
Shipping is free.
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Steps:
- Go to this page and enter an email address
- Locate the Welcome to SanDisk email and verify your address
- A second email containing a unique 10% off discount code should arrive immediately
- Go to 2TB WD Black D30 Game Drive External SSD and add to cart
- Apply your 10% off discount code
- Your total should now be $108 w/ free shipping
Specs: - 2TB Storage Capacity
- USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C Interface
- Up to 900 MB/s Data Transfer Speed
- Bus Powered
- Drop Resistant up to 6.5'
- Temperature Resistant
- Includes USB Type-C to Type-A Cable
- PC and Xbox Compatible
Top Comments
If you shuck it and put it into an NVMe port it's slower than using the box. And you can't use the box for other NVMe ssds.
https://imgur.com/a/wd-black-d30-...wn-ppCkY7w
Community Reviews
This WD Black D30 2TB is best understood as a fast external Xbox storage drive that can also be shucked for NVMe use. It delivers strong USB performance, with reports around 867 to 921 MB per second over USB C and even higher speeds in faster enclosures or direct PCIe use. It works well for non Series Xbox games, cold storage, and secondary capacity, but the internal drive appears to be a WD SN350QE style part with QLC or low end behavior, including a steep drop after cache fills. That makes it less appealing for PC shucking or heavy write workloads, especially since some orders also hit checkout and pricing issues.
The drive can deliver very high transfer rates in a TB4 enclosure, reaching around 2000MB/s read and write during testing.
The drive can reach about 1800MB/s write when connected directly to a PCIe slot as an NVMe connection.
The deal price can be successfully reduced with a $10 off promotion after purchase.
The drive can work well as external or secondary storage when it is not used as an OS drive.
The internal SSD model can differ from expectations, including reports of SN350QE QLC or SN350QE identification instead of SN550E.
Shucking and moving the drive into an NVMe port can be slower than using the original enclosure.
Real-world write performance can drop sharply after SLC cache fills, with measured speeds falling to roughly 150MB/s.
Checkout can fail on Firefox with a "Security Code Invalid" credit card error, while switching to Chrome may be required.
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/S lol
WD Blue SN550E is a really good deal today. It would be a low end drive.
WD Green SN350QE is NOT a deal at any amount of money. It's a 100TBW drive which is lower than basement; I wouldn't recommend anyone use this drive, certainly not for shucking. If your Xbox need some storage, buy this as SSD prices are insane. If you are shucking this for a PC, don't do it, pay double for a decent drive instead.
https://forums.anandtec
You can read for info here, people were buying these around Sept 2025 and confirmed SN350QE: https://forums.redflagd
Based on research, these are not Green QLC. They're OEM TLC NAND, flashed with SN350QE generic OEM firmware, since it uses same controller as retail SN350. TBW suggests it's 1200TBW for 2TB (that would be nice). **My own experience. I moved 1.25TB over to the drive and HWInfo said health was still 100%. If it was 100TBW, i would have expected 99-98%
health.
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health.
I'm guessing the percentage used counter is tied to something other than the actual data units written but instead the internal health of the NAND. If the drive was initially empty and 1.25TB were written to it then your WAF would be very low and it'd likely only result in a single PE cycle.
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Based on research, these are not Green QLC. They're OEM TLC NAND, flashed with SN350QE generic OEM firmware, since it uses same controller as retail SN350. TBW suggests it's 1200TBW for 2TB (that would be nice). **My own experience. I moved 1.25TB over to the drive and HWInfo said health was still 100%. If it was 100TBW, i would have expected 99-98%
health.
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