Restart PC and your External hard drive will show up and work again Fix WD external hard drive not working/responding issue When WD external hard drive, USB or other brands of storage devices are not working or not responding to any operations in your PC, don't worry You can follow belowoffered methods to get problems fixed right now Method 1 WD Black drives are still some of the fastest mechanical drives, but no, they don't even come close to any SSD for gaming If you are going to go with a big mechanical drive, at least use one of your smaller SSDs to setup SSD caching (Intel Smart Response Technology), so your most recently/commonly used games will still at least have a chance of loading from the SSD I just purchased the WD_Black P10 Game Drive and attempted to connect to my PS4 to setup as an external drive Unfortunately, the device did not display as available So, next I tried connecting to my PC to check on the HDD, and the drive did not show up under File Explorer, Device Manager, or Disk Management
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