@@bizkurt99 are any of these SSD or HDD? I read the description of the black and it says it includes "a desktop HDD". Both of these drives have a max rpm of 5400 (the faster the better I heard) However, I read elsewhere that SSD is much better for external gaming storage.
@@jonathanvillalba3214 HDD. It is very fast despite being 5400rpm. HDD will do everything ok. SSD is kinda luxury tbh. If you have spare cash and you want things to load fast, go with ssd. My advice, if your pc dont have a ssd, buy a ssd for it first (for OS) then use one you extract from the pc as extra storage. SSD will do a huge upgrade to your system.
Personally I was really disappointed with p10, yes, it was a little faster that my previously owned wd elements drive, but it was louder as well. Not worth the extra +10 bucks over a simpler wd drive for sure. (Even if you are a gamer)
I have been comparing these two for over a week now, so glad I found this video! I have a question, If I do not wish to use the HHD as a gaming drive but just for backing up files, photos, music, etc. Which would be the better option.
Thanks for the comparison. I skimmed the video including the current comments. I couldn't tell if you tested the Passport with or without the encryption enabled. I wonder if that could account for the slight difference in speeds?
TL;DW (Too Long, Didn't Watch): The main points I took away are stated below: - The WD Black is slightly more expensive, trivial speed differences, although it has a more solid feel and design (aluminum I would assume, with rubber feet). This drive does NOT support drive encryption. - The My Passport on the other hand is, currently, $10 less for a 5TB external on Amazon (going for roughly $100), versus the $110 alternative of the WD Black 5TB external drive. As mentioned, the speeds are ever so slightly slower with the My Passport, but the real difference seems to lie in the build quality (the My Passport being all plastic, while the WD Black is metal with rubber feet). This drive DOES support drive encryption. Hope this helps!
Thank you for the comparison video, this was very helpful. Today my old 2tb hdd that I used for my xbox decided that today was a good day to die lol. I think I am gonna go with the black :)
Thanks for the video. I was looking at one of these drives and I always find it interesting to see other peoples "real experiences" of different products. That said I generally dislike these kinds of "prepackaged hard drives" as You (normally) don't know exactly what you are getting. And it annoys me that the manufacturers don't include the "Real Drive specifications", which means that they can (and have) switch the "internals" without "informing the consumers" in their "product info"... So Yea they can potentially be a "bargain" but unless You are really particular and meticulous You are pretty much "at the manufacturers mercy"... Best regards P.S. And the fact that they name this "external game drive" with it's "unspecified internals" after a "Top Tier internal drive", i.e. W.D.Black. further increases my annoyance regarding this particular product.
What you say is very true but depending on your needs and application it doesn’t matter too much what’s inside specifically as long as it’s known to be a reliable product. Other than that I do tend to prefer doing my own combinations of enclosure and hard drive or ssd if my choice. Like when I get a new NAS I am going for one without drives and I’ll be supplying my own.
@@Ben7seven7I know it's old but I just saw this and it sparked my curiosity as I have a wd black p10 and it blows those numbers away on my old pc and an old laptop I have also. Like 40 to 50 percent faster. Which leads me to wonder if your drives were connecting at USB 3?
I didn’t test this drive that far yet but based on other HDDs in general it doesn’t dramatically reduce the speed that much but yeah it’s still a little slower reading and writing from the outer edges of the platter than the inner .
@@Ben7seven7 Ok Thanks. Reason I asked this is nowadays, manufacturers are making SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) drives with poor performance. At the beginning people don't get to know since its empty drive. As drive starts filling up, SMR technology starts to read->rewrite old data->write new data... more and more which is when things starts to fall.. People have reported below 20 to 10 MBPS.. Over the internet, I found what drive is inside P10 and some analysts are saying its an SMR drive. Here are few links:- dongknows.com/western-digital-wd-black-p10-game-drive-review Look for - WD50NMZW-59LG6S1 and then rml527.blogspot.com/2010/10/hdd-platter-database-western-digital-25_2393.html Search for WD50NMZW (its family name)
Quick question, what kinda USB port does you laptop have that you were plugging the drives into? I'm planning on getting one of these guys but not sure if my laptop 3.0 port would be enough to run it at this speed. Thanks in advance!
I read some reviews saying these drives get really slow the fuller it gets. How does the WD black perform when reaching it's full capacity? Is it still functioning well?
Get black. It has less vibration and more quiet than passport. I am using on my ps5 and xbox series x. Xbox keeps drive on and the drive gets hot after long period of time. Black's case serves it like a heatsink.
I got 4TB WD Passport (Color:Red) and 5TB WD_BLACK P10. Passport 7/24 running while P10 shutdown itself after a period of time (if its just sitting there doing nothing. It will start again once you just do something with it.). Passport vibrates like crazy, P10 vibrates minimum. Like its non existant. Both Data transfer rates are good.
Small question please , the seller I ordered from my Amazon country said that the my passport is interface 1.1 but it offer 3.0 , am new to these stuff is it going to work or no ? And do I need to buy a 3.0 cable ?
Hey, Is it loud? how noticable is it since it is a hard drive. Want to expand my storage and dont always need my games. Don't want to buy SSDs because they are more expensive (5TB HDD vs 1TB SSD for the same price). So is it noticable when utilized?
Don't get the Passport 5TB. It's SMR and painfully slow to the point of 1MB/s, or simply just stopped transferring. And after a few days from a 3-year warranty. It died. I don't trust Seagate, but my options were limited. It was on sale at a good price. I decided to try the One Touch with Password from Seagate. With formatted APFS and GUID partition. It works very well. The read and write speeds are very consistent and fast. When in use, it is closes to 100MB/s. I thought all SMR drives were the same. Then I tried WD Blue 4TB and WD My Book 6TB. They are SMR. So far, so good. Noting with the low performance yet. I also try the 3.5" 10TB Seagate One Touch Hub. Incredible to see the 200MB/s + from an HDD. I don't think it's SMR. I hope Seagate will last long despite all the consistent reports that they are the first brand to fail in many use cases. One thing to note is the Passport is significantly smaller than One Touch with Password. The Passport never gets very hot and has plastic closing. While the One Touch with Password has aluminum with plastic enclosure. I can feel the heat. I think the enclosure really helps dissipate the heat away. The Seagate seems to act as a normal HDD should.
@@AndrewProTV The WD Black is only slightly faster than the passport and you loose password protecting the drive. Otherwise it has a Metal case vs plastic and little rubber feet for traction.
I see WD have done a bait and switch, the older WD passport drives do near 300mB/sec, the older ones you can tell have 2 square shapes on the drive, vs this new design.
You can store and use backwards compatible Xbox games on a regular drive but in order to use games enhanced for series X & S xboxes I believe you will need one of the custom SSD game drives... currently priced between $200 and $250 for 1 Tb
Thanks for the full details. But you have mentioned in the video that wd black supports encryption and I don’t see this feature if I’m going to use it as a backup driver
I was comparing these two with the seagate backup plus, I’m considering partioning and reformatting whichever I get so I could use it for Xbox as well as pc and wouldn’t be over written when connected (depending how efficient that would be) I mainly am looking to use it on pc but if I can Xbox which is why I’m considering the black, from what I’ve read they both have about the same read and write speeds just the my passport has encryption and backup which is also favorable, but is it really loud?, I just wonder how big difference the speeds would make or would be better fit.
great video XD ! quick question, because it's amazon prime day and the WD black is on a good deal 😅 but would you use that drive for video editing? and would you choose the WD black over a Samsung T5/7 ? :)
Great video mate👍 but which one you will recommend to my PC for storage all my games? I mean which will be better and faster for gaming? Take care mate and thanks👍
The wd black is targeted specifically to store games and today it has a black friday discount on amazon. making it only 5 dollars more expensive than the wd mypassport
I bought this Hard drive WD My Passport 5tb in Nigeria for #54,000 yesterday ( 20-04-2022 ) but in the process of using it to copy software today ( 21-04-2022 ) I see that the hard is not working so I use Hard Disk sentinel to test it, then I discovered that the Heat of Hard as Reduce from 100% to 9% I try to return it to the seller but the seller did not collect it from me
Omg what's wrong with your mic.. my ears is melting down... next time just use one channel. right or left - duplicated it as one when u editing !! Will be Still in stereo. But will be one channel.
Time Stamps (according to Google):
04:28 Size Comparison
06:04 Cables
07:17 Benchmark Comparison
08:20 Benchmark Performance
10:57 Price
12:20 Sequential Read and Write Speeds
22:00 Crystal Disk Mark
You the mvp
17:31 CrystalDiskmark 6.0.2 x64 Results
Sequential Read/Write
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WD BLACK P10
Read: 131.3
Write: 127.9
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WD MY PASSPORT (You can encrypt drive.)
Read: 126.7
Write: 123.6
WHAT DO YOU PREFER? because I don´t know xD
@@dimarco7777 if you’re using this for your games library go with the black.
Generally go with black because its very silent compared to passport.
@@bizkurt99 are any of these SSD or HDD?
I read the description of the black and it says it includes "a desktop HDD".
Both of these drives have a max rpm of 5400 (the faster the better I heard)
However, I read elsewhere that SSD is much better for external gaming storage.
@@jonathanvillalba3214 HDD. It is very fast despite being 5400rpm. HDD will do everything ok. SSD is kinda luxury tbh. If you have spare cash and you want things to load fast, go with ssd. My advice, if your pc dont have a ssd, buy a ssd for it first (for OS) then use one you extract from the pc as extra storage. SSD will do a huge upgrade to your system.
Personally I was really disappointed with p10, yes, it was a little faster that my previously owned wd elements drive, but it was louder as well. Not worth the extra +10 bucks over a simpler wd drive for sure. (Even if you are a gamer)
I have been comparing these two for over a week now, so glad I found this video!
I have a question, If I do not wish to use the HHD as a gaming drive but just for backing up files, photos, music, etc. Which would be the better option.
you're basically comparing apple to apple so the cheapest between both would be my answer
Thanks for the comparison. I skimmed the video including the current comments. I couldn't tell if you tested the Passport with or without the encryption enabled. I wonder if that could account for the slight difference in speeds?
Hi and thanks for commenting. I did not have password protection enabled during the test for an apples to apples comparison.
TL;DW (Too Long, Didn't Watch):
The main points I took away are stated below:
- The WD Black is slightly more expensive, trivial speed differences, although it has a more solid feel and design (aluminum I would assume, with rubber feet). This drive does NOT support drive encryption.
- The My Passport on the other hand is, currently, $10 less for a 5TB external on Amazon (going for roughly $100), versus the $110 alternative of the WD Black 5TB external drive. As mentioned, the speeds are ever so slightly slower with the My Passport, but the real difference seems to lie in the build quality (the My Passport being all plastic, while the WD Black is metal with rubber feet). This drive DOES support drive encryption.
Hope this helps!
Thank you for the comparison video, this was very helpful. Today my old 2tb hdd that I used for my xbox decided that today was a good day to die lol. I think I am gonna go with the black :)
Did you end up going w the black? I just got mine and am very impressed so far. I was just curious how yours was holding up after some time?
Are there any differences between the different wd black capacities? I've red that 4tb is slightly faster...
Thanks for the video. I was looking at one of these drives and I always find it interesting to see other peoples "real experiences" of different products.
That said I generally dislike these kinds of "prepackaged hard drives" as You (normally) don't know exactly what you are getting. And it annoys me that the manufacturers don't include the "Real Drive specifications", which means that they can (and have) switch the "internals" without "informing the consumers" in their "product info"...
So Yea they can potentially be a "bargain" but unless You are really particular and meticulous You are pretty much "at the manufacturers mercy"...
Best regards
P.S. And the fact that they name this "external game drive" with it's "unspecified internals" after a "Top Tier internal drive", i.e. W.D.Black. further increases my annoyance regarding this particular product.
What you say is very true but depending on your needs and application it doesn’t matter too much what’s inside specifically as long as it’s known to be a reliable product. Other than that I do tend to prefer doing my own combinations of enclosure and hard drive or ssd if my choice. Like when I get a new NAS I am going for one without drives and I’ll be supplying my own.
"Why" all the "quotation marks"? It's a bit "over the top" lol
@@Ben7seven7I know it's old but I just saw this and it sparked my curiosity as I have a wd black p10 and it blows those numbers away on my old pc and an old laptop I have also. Like 40 to 50 percent faster. Which leads me to wonder if your drives were connecting at USB 3?
Who's the best please ?
Would this make any difference in speed & performance in general if you get a 2Tb version?
Are you referring to the sold state drive? If so yes you would see a very noticeable improvement in load times.
Is this still support for windows 7 or no sir?
What's the write performance/speed once the P10 5TB drive fills up say 3-4 TB ? I mean does it remains at 100+ MBPS or below 20 MPBS ?
I didn’t test this drive that far yet but based on other HDDs in general it doesn’t dramatically reduce the speed that much but yeah it’s still a little slower reading and writing from the outer edges of the platter than the inner .
@@Ben7seven7 Ok Thanks. Reason I asked this is nowadays, manufacturers are making SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) drives with poor performance.
At the beginning people don't get to know since its empty drive. As drive starts filling up, SMR technology starts to read->rewrite old data->write new data... more and more which is when things starts to fall.. People have reported below 20 to 10 MBPS..
Over the internet, I found what drive is inside P10 and some analysts are saying its an SMR drive.
Here are few links:-
dongknows.com/western-digital-wd-black-p10-game-drive-review
Look for - WD50NMZW-59LG6S1
and then
rml527.blogspot.com/2010/10/hdd-platter-database-western-digital-25_2393.html
Search for WD50NMZW (its family name)
Quick question, what kinda USB port does you laptop have that you were plugging the drives into? I'm planning on getting one of these guys but not sure if my laptop 3.0 port would be enough to run it at this speed.
Thanks in advance!
USB 3.1 and no worries if yours is just 3.0 you’ll still get full speed out of a hard drive connected to it.
@@Ben7seven7 Thanks for the fast reply!
Can this be used to store Music, Movies and Images and used as normal external HDD ?
Absolutely
I read some reviews saying these drives get really slow the fuller it gets. How does the WD black perform when reaching it's full capacity? Is it still functioning well?
That's just how it is for any ssd or hard drives no matter what the brand is.
For storing games on a PS4 Pro, do you think the game drive is better?
They would both work well but I’d give the edge to the game drive.
@@Ben7seven7 thank you! gonna pick up on the game drive :))
I just want to play videos and movies off of it on my Samsung 55 inch 4K TV, so which Drive should I get? The WD black or the WD passport?
finally which one did you brought? wd black or passport?
Thank you for the video. I am looking to get a comparison whether the gaming one is worth more than the passport, and your video helps.
Hi which would be best for series x?
The game drive
Nah both of the will do just fine. You paid extra dollars for those “rugged” and “gaming” aesthetics.
Get black. It has less vibration and more quiet than passport. I am using on my ps5 and xbox series x. Xbox keeps drive on and the drive gets hot after long period of time. Black's case serves it like a heatsink.
I got 4TB WD Passport (Color:Red) and 5TB WD_BLACK P10. Passport 7/24 running while P10 shutdown itself after a period of time (if its just sitting there doing nothing. It will start again once you just do something with it.). Passport vibrates like crazy, P10 vibrates minimum. Like its non existant. Both Data transfer rates are good.
That’s a good point to make. Also probably why the WD black has rubber feet and the passport doesn’t.
@@Ben7seven7 no, passport have rubber feet too.
The passport is quieter in operation? Is that what you mean?
@@leaningless no, louder operation on passport. 0 noice on my wd_blacks.(yes 4 of them. All of them=5TB)
@@bizkurt99 I'm sorry, I'll clarify for the last time. The P10 is much quieter than My Passport, right?
Can I use the passport for install and run games on my PC?
Yes, you can.
Small question please , the seller I ordered from my Amazon country said that the my passport is interface 1.1 but it offer 3.0 , am new to these stuff is it going to work or no ? And do I need to buy a 3.0 cable ?
Am going to use it with my ps5
0:00 "In this video I'll be doing a BRIEF comparison..." ...28 minutes and counting on the video, haha.
Hey, Is it loud? how noticable is it since it is a hard drive. Want to expand my storage and dont always need my games. Don't want to buy SSDs because they are more expensive (5TB HDD vs 1TB SSD for the same price). So is it noticable when utilized?
No you wont be able to hear it.
I am using 2 on my console and 1 on my pc as daily driver. It is really quiet. I recommend it.
what was the third test you did at the end for? you should put amazon links to each, and be an affiliate, you get money if people stuff
Can the Game Drive be used to store and playing movies with on a PC or is it only a gaming hdd? 😀
It’s not gaming specific so you can do anything you can on any other HDD with this one.
If you put *time stamps* in the desc, it will be good for a lot of people...
Yup, I was considering that. Thanks for your comments.
Or do even a modicum of editing.
Quick question can I leave my wd black p10 plugged into my ps5? I’m new to this hard drive and ssd stuff.
Yup I do the same with my Xbox
Works with xbox series S/X?
Yes
Is it work in phobe while charging it,?
Huh?
Did you consider maybe editing out the long, boring parts so viewers don't have to sit through them? It's like watching paint dry.
Does it work for the Xbox one s???? Pls reply!!
Yes i use it on mine.
So which one is faster ?
I show you in the video but short answer is WD Black
Ben7seven7 thanks
adidas1984x yw
@@Ben7seven7 yes but not by much... the answer is up to the consumer if they think that 5-10 mb/s is worth the $10-$20 price difference. What say you?
@@duMaurier15 i guess it depends on the file size, that 5mbps will save a lot of time for a backup copy worth gigs of data
Don't get the Passport 5TB. It's SMR and painfully slow to the point of 1MB/s, or simply just stopped transferring. And after a few days from a 3-year warranty. It died. I don't trust Seagate, but my options were limited. It was on sale at a good price. I decided to try the One Touch with Password from Seagate. With formatted APFS and GUID partition. It works very well. The read and write speeds are very consistent and fast. When in use, it is closes to 100MB/s. I thought all SMR drives were the same. Then I tried WD Blue 4TB and WD My Book 6TB. They are SMR. So far, so good. Noting with the low performance yet. I also try the 3.5" 10TB Seagate One Touch Hub. Incredible to see the 200MB/s + from an HDD. I don't think it's SMR. I hope Seagate will last long despite all the consistent reports that they are the first brand to fail in many use cases.
One thing to note is the Passport is significantly smaller than One Touch with Password. The Passport never gets very hot and has plastic closing. While the One Touch with Password has aluminum with plastic enclosure. I can feel the heat. I think the enclosure really helps dissipate the heat away. The Seagate seems to act as a normal HDD should.
What's the Tldr for this
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@@Ben7seven7 too long to watch, if you had to sum up this review in a sentence or 2 could you?
tl;dr , too long didn't read, WD game drive has faster read speed than my passport
@@AndrewProTV The WD Black is only slightly faster than the passport and you loose password protecting the drive. Otherwise it has a Metal case vs plastic and little rubber feet for traction.
@@Ben7seven7 and black is way quiter than passport.
I see WD have done a bait and switch, the older WD passport drives do near 300mB/sec, the older ones you can tell have 2 square shapes on the drive, vs this new design.
That’s not correct, no HDD does 300MB / sec The upper end drivers maybe push close to 200 but no where near 300.
Can i use wd passport to store xbox series s games?
Yed
You can store and use backwards compatible Xbox games on a regular drive but in order to use games enhanced for series X & S xboxes I believe you will need one of the custom SSD game drives... currently priced between $200 and $250 for 1 Tb
Thanks for the full details. But you have mentioned in the video that wd black supports encryption and I don’t see this feature if I’m going to use it as a backup driver
The My Passport is the one that supports encryption, the WD Black gaming drive does not
Will either of these HDDs work on an older laptop with Windows 7?
Yes, they’re normal USB HDDs and will work on anything with a USB port that supports hard drives./ external storage
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I was comparing these two with the seagate backup plus, I’m considering partioning and reformatting whichever I get so I could use it for Xbox as well as pc and wouldn’t be over written when connected (depending how efficient that would be) I mainly am looking to use it on pc but if I can Xbox which is why I’m considering the black, from what I’ve read they both have about the same read and write speeds just the my passport has encryption and backup which is also favorable, but is it really loud?, I just wonder how big difference the speeds would make or would be better fit.
@C.A how to partition so I can use it both pc and console?
great video XD ! quick question, because it's amazon prime day and the WD black is on a good deal 😅 but would you use that drive for video editing? and would you choose the WD black over a Samsung T5/7 ? :)
As long as you don’t need built in password encryption I’d jump on the WD Black. There’s a Prime day deal on it today for $95
Bought it today, waiting for the delivery
bought this an hour ago because of prime day, this is the most useful review of this product
@@jekzapico3834 nice catch... the price has already jumped back to its original 😅 I'll get one next year lol
@@GDoggProductions it's black friday - check it out again
Great video mate👍 but which one you will recommend to my PC for storage all my games? I mean which will be better and faster for gaming? Take care mate and thanks👍
The wd black is targeted specifically to store games and today it has a black friday discount on amazon. making it only 5 dollars more expensive than the wd mypassport
The game drive will be the best for that purpose
Black is way quieter than passport.
Wish WD would upgrade their port to the new USB-C connection!
Strange that random read is much slower than random write.
Does the W D P10 work on "PlayStation 5
Yes I got the the 4 tb recently works fine with ps5, cost £95 on amazon
@@dockaos924 how was the experience with it ?
@@abd5793 had it a year now and saved all my ps4 stuff to it and some ps5 stuff i dont use much upgraded the ps5 internal memory since
@@dockaos924 did you try the WD passport external hard drive ?
@@abd5793 no just got what I assume to be the standard wd black 4tb gaming drive
I bought this Hard drive WD My Passport 5tb in Nigeria for #54,000 yesterday ( 20-04-2022 ) but in the process of using it to copy software today ( 21-04-2022 ) I see that the hard is not working so I use Hard Disk sentinel to test it, then I discovered that the Heat of Hard as Reduce from 100% to 9% I try to return it to the seller but the seller did not collect it from me
Thanks, bro. Very helpful vedio!
You’re welcome, thanks for watching.
TL:DR
P10 is 20ish% faster than MY passport, but my passport can be protected with a password
I have taken both apart they are the same drive on the inside 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
thank u man
you can skip the 1st 26 min of this video
Omg what's wrong with your mic.. my ears is melting down... next time just use one channel. right or left - duplicated it as one when u editing !! Will be Still in stereo. But will be one channel.
The camera films in 5.1 surround by default unless I chose to change the setting.