WD - WD_BLACK P10 2TB External USB 3.2 Gen 1 Portable Hard Drive - Black

I own two of these P10 drives, 5 TB capacity, purchased 2 years ago and 3 years ago respectively. They were purchased as a place to temporarily move large amounts of media for active editing projects, a backup drive. They seemed to work well for this function but *both* have gotten extremely slow over time -- to the point where they're impractical to use. At best, I get 45MB/sec write speeds -- but during copies it drops to 10 MB/s.. 2 MB/s.. down to 0 then pops back up.. fluctuates a lot.. and then sometimes is even disconnecting mid-copy and re-connecting! They are both formatted exFAT. I'm attempting to defrag one and it's going VERY slowly -- hopefully this might help. But overall I'm very disappointed that both drives are so incredibly slow and becoming unusable.

I cannot access this drive on any of my computers. I have tried a different cable. My work was saved on the drive, and it appears will now lose everything on it.

Have had the 4 tb version hooked up to my Xbox series x with no issuse for a year now. All of a sudden tonight it disconnects and reconnects ever minute or so. I loved it up until this point. Hiw am I supposed to use a drive that just doesn't seem to want to stay cinnected?

Came in quick, super simple set up, no fuss! Instructions were very easy to understand.

I've had this drive for less than a year but I used it regularly. When in use it lags immensely to the point where I would get dropped from games at least once a week. Recently it fell from the couch (2.5 feet?) onto a rug on a carpet (all the padding) and now it is unrecognizable to the PC. I was already frustrated, but now I'm disappointed as well. I won't be replacing it with another WD; I'll be looking for a drive with a much faster RW speed and more reliable performance.