Gamers know the struggle of storage management. As your games get better and better, they may take up more and more space. In such cases, instead of upgrading to new internal storage, it is worth considering high-capacity external storage: for example, the WD_BLACK™ D50 Game Dock NVMe™ SSD.

Of course, the WD_BLACK D50 Game Dock NVMe SSD, as its name suggests, does more than just add storage; it helps level up your play. In fact, it acts like a true dock, adding accessible connectivity to your setup, allowing you to easily connect and disconnect accessories and peripherals on the fly for a complete gaming desktop experience. [The WD_BLACK D50 Game Dock NVMe SSD is available in two storage sizes: 1TB and 2TB, enough to securely store the latest high-density games. With an average game size of 36 GB, the 2 TB capacity can store up to 50 games. It is also extremely accessible from the system. This drive is fast solid-state storage with NVMe technology, with read speeds up to 3000 MB/s and write speeds up to 2500 MB/s.

As for connectivity, there are two Thunderbolt™ 3 ports, one DisplayPort™ 1.4 port, two USB-C™ ports, three USB-A ports, an audio port, and a Gigabit Ethernet port. With these ports, it should be possible to connect a laptop to a 5K monitor at a 60Hz refresh rate, for example. You can also charge your laptop with up to 87W of pass-through charging. [WD_BLACK D50 Game Dock NVMe SSDs have other advantages. For example, it can be managed and optimized via the WD_BLACK Dashboard (Windows® only), allowing you to quickly and easily monitor drive health and ensure your system is running as efficiently as possible while gaming. In addition, the built-in RGB lighting makes the dock compatible with some of the most popular RGB systems on the market, making it easy to match the dock with other RGB setups.

But if you're looking for super-fast speeds to upgrade your current gaming PC or build an entirely new PC rig to take on the latest big titles, Western Digital has a solution for that too. The recently released WD_ BLACK SN850 NVMe SSD is a next-generation internal PCIe® Gen4 drive (not intended for NAS or server environments) that delivers an incredible 7000MB/s read speed and 5300MB/s write speed (1TB model).

Like all WD_BLACK game drives, this drive comes with the latest WD_BLACK Dashboard software to monitor the drive's status.

The WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe SSD is available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB* capacities, depending on the additional storage capacity you need. Additionally, a sleek heat-sink model is available to keep your rig cool and maintain peak performance. And it wouldn't be the ultimate gaming drive if it didn't glow with color. For those of us who pride ourselves on personalizing our rigs, the heatsink models also feature customizable RGB lighting. While customization is only available in Windows, it is also compatible with the general RGB ecosystem for easy synchronization and personalization.WD_BLACK can handle any gaming storage need, whether you want to illuminate it with color or not.

*1TB = 1 trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.

**1 MB/s = 1 million bytes per second. Performance may vary based on host device, usage conditions, drive capacity, and other factors.

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