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WD Black SSD drives promise to speed up your PC game loading times

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Western Digital is launching three new WD Black SSD drives today for gamers who want to stay up to speed and get rid of long loading times.

The SSDs are being touted as some of the best technical features of the new PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X game consoles coming in November. These faster storage devices promise to completely eliminate long loading times for cutscenes, or cinematics in high-end games. But on the PC, SSDs have been out for a while, speeding up PC game performance and also providing extra storage for big games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.