The Western Digital Black P50 Game Drive uses the new USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 interface, making it capable of speeds up to 20Gbps. That makes it technically one of the fastest USB drives in the world but during testing we came across a few problems.
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Very well balanced opinions with honesty. Good source for knowledefe update!
I'm so glad someone finally made a USB drive for GAMERS to hold all their GAMES so they can load GAMES super fast because GAMERS need extra speed for all the GAMING they do.
My motherboard supports usb 3.2 gen 2 but I haven’t found any thumb drives that support 10Gbps
Sounds like the drive controller is busted.
Good, you reviewed a new product that has almost no support, and came up with the same issue that happens every time a new feature comes out…
did you try changing file system maybe large file size limits are not being copied
Again, Asus is screwing over everyone (AsMedia is Asus' controller division).
Isn’t thunderbolt faster?
NOOO BUT IT LOOKS SO COOL
USB needs to get their naming shit together good lord
Asmedia is known for errors a lot of VR users have a lot of issues to the point they have to get an addon card. from 2016 to relatively within this past year Asmedia has fixed the issues with their drivers for VR on 3.0 Chips as long as you are running the newest version of Windows and have updated the chipset drivers, USB drivers, and the Bios. A lot of people had issues since last summer when the Rift S was released and having problems into the new year, 4Years? to get a freaking driver right, let that sink in, that's just about half or over half a motherboards life cycle.
Looks like issues with files above 4Gb?
USB gen 2,
2 by 2
Equal four
quick math
I just bought 3 WD Black P 10's. Running transfers on HP Zbook's and Z6's they produced the same inconsistencies
Do a Linux test, its no surprise the write buffer in Windows is acting up. The problem DIES lie in the test-system, its just nor a hardware issue.
Hard drive that can't reliably store data? ?
I'll take three. ?
ASMedia seems to have the worst drivers out of any manufacturer I've come across – on an X99 board I have to manually install a specific version of the drivers otherwise I get data corruption!
you can get a air cooled nvme enclosure for $130, with 1tb drive it would come out to the same price and be faster
Its new – its cool – but no money from me until "it works". I could sell you a rocket on the promise one day it may fly – honest, trust me> Lol. Great review.
wow, the drive is NO go then
Question: Sure you've been asked this already, but what were the memory configurations that you used in these test setups (number of sticks / speeds / OC on or off / etc.?
Well done for being a BETA tester for WD.
Did they let you keep the review unit permanently for the privilege?
Thanks for all the honesty and screen grabs etc.
Why not get two of the last gen for twice the speed haha
I have had similar errors with a usb drive and it was fixed by formatting the drive in NTFS.
did you disable USB selective suspend???
……….currently, doesn't work with laptops
……….displays it on a laptop. "0_o"
9:45 so basically it could end up very well, or very badly like the Radeon Navi line of driver issues
not how you backup steam libraries , steam has a lot of symbolic files
You need to ask yourself one very practical question. Do your video games really need 1410 Megabytes per second transfer speeds? I would argue no. Just get a Sandisk Extreme Pro. It's plenty sufficient for the most part, and much more cost effective. Let this bullshit iron out. Don't be an early product tester. Let the idiots/rich people figure this shit out, you'll thank me you did.
Is this Unbox Therapy?
you're playing twitch geo ):
i dont want a software fix. i want a hardware fix. i want a different controller before i fork out that much money
Thunderbolt 3 40 GBs intel nuc vr hmmm
Call it USB4.0 FFS! The name is just stupid.
For gamers? Usb 3.1 gen 1 is good enough for that.
you should check out linus and his multi nvme raid system . should explane whats happening to you lads 😛 . it WILL happen every time . the drives are not optermised for desktop use atm .
Asus ROG STRIX ARION review?
These issues can be because of overheating controller on the motherboard or inside the drive itself by opening it you can pinpoint the cause and fix it and then seeing the improvements
… but did you monitor the temperatures of the drive and asmedia chip during data transfers?