Western Digital's New Drives Offer Immersive Gaming Experience
Zacks Investment Research | Aug 21, 2019 01:47AM ET
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC) recently rolled out five new high storage capacity drives at Gamescom 2019 event in Cologne, Germany. The company aims to provide PC gamers and console users an immersive gaming experience with the new drives.
The company expanded Black gaming portfolio with WD_Black P50 solid-state drive (SSD), and WD_Black P10 and WD_Black D10 hard disk drives (HDDs).
Western Digital is also offering WD_Black D10 and WD_Black P10 HDDs for Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) gaming console — Xbox One with free subscription of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for select time period. This is anticipated to bolster early adoption of the drives.
Moreover, both WD_Black D10 HDD and WD_Black D10 HDD for Xbox One, support read speed of up to 250MB/s with active cooling technology enabled 7200RPM.
PC gamers and Xbox One users are likely to benefit greatly from the feature-rich new products. The new gaming drives launch is expected to aid the company in strengthening market position against storage peers, including Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) .
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The high-performance WD_Black P10 HDD comes in storage capacity variants of 2TB up to 5TB, and features a portable form factor with USB 3.2 Gen 1 compliant port.
WD_Black D10 HDD offers storage capacity of up to 8 TB. Meanwhile, WD_Black P50 SSD offers up to 2TB of extra storage, featuring read speeds up to 2000MB/s and USB 3.2 compliant gen 2x2 port.
Coming to WD_Black P10 HDD for Xbox One comes in storage capacity variants of 3TB to 5TB, with MSRP ranging from $109.99 to $149.99. WD_Black D10 for Xbox One featuring storage capacity of up to 12 TB comes at an MSRP of $299.95. Western Digital anticipates both the drives to be available “this quarter.”
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