The 5TB WD Black P10 External USB Drive and Linux

📅 July 2, 2021
Five terabytes.

Or 5 TB…That is a lot of hard drive space. Well, for raw, unformatted capacity that is. Even though 5 TB formats to 4.54 TB of usable space, that is still a lot of storage capacity.

The Western Digital Black P10 is an external USB 3.0 (USB 3.0 is also known as USB 3.1 Gen 1 to make matters confusing) removable hard drive that offers a vast amount of storage in a small size. The P10 is available in a number of capacities, but this article covers the 5 TB version to see what its performance is like in Linux.

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