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2TB WD Black D30 Game Drive External SSD for Xbox/PC
$108
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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.
Thanks to Community Member N3RD_01 for finding this deal.
Steps:
Thanks to Community Member N3RD_01 for finding this deal.
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
- 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
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Written by johnny_miller | Staff- This offer is $11.99 lower than a Frontpage Deal from August.
- Please see the original post for additional details & give the forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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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.
Thanks to Community Member N3RD_01 for finding this deal.
Steps:
Thanks to Community Member N3RD_01 for finding this deal.
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
- 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
Editor's Notes
Written by johnny_miller | Staff- This offer is $11.99 lower than a Frontpage Deal from August.
- Please see the original post for additional details & give the forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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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
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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.
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That's not how the percentage used counter likely works. 100TBW is based on JESD219 workloads, not sequential, so if the files were mostly large sequential files then likely it wouldn't induce significant WAF. On a DRAM-less drive like this one, JESD219 workload would induce significant WAF so that would explain the very low TBW.
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.
TBW is effectively a statistical threshold rather than a hard failure point; its primary function is to define warranty liability. Manufacturers calculate these ratings based on Annualized Failure Rates, setting the limit so that the vast majority (e.g., 99%) of drives survive, while accepting a calculated minority (e.g., 1%) will fail within the warranty period.
Because failure is modeled as a probability, a standard TLC drive with 1200 TBW should theoretically never fail from wear under normal consumer use, assuming no manufacturing defects. By comparison, a basement budget QLC drive (assuming this is WD Green 350) rated for only 100 TBW represents an order of magnitude drop in reliability.
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921MB write and 867MB read on Blackmagic on an M4 Mac via usb-c to usb-c cable I had laying around.
nice job WD
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Update: after extensive write test, the drive does fall to 150MB/s after SLC cache is full, so very likely a QLC. I took it apart and it's a 2242 drive with SanDisk 20-82-10129-A2 controller; SanDisk 019603 2T00 NAND. 2T00 just notes it's the 2T unit. Can't find any other information online. Gonna have to return now.
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