Customers have good things to say about the Expansion Desktop 8TB HDD, particularly its large storage capacity and overall performance. Users find it easy to use, and are pleased with its speed. The drive's compact size, reasonable price, broad compatibility, and simple installation process are also appreciated.
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Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Backup Drive
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great backup drive. Reasonably priced. Holds a ton of files.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good hardware
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Pretty good, good storage, I like it.
Use it mainly for School work
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great drive great deal
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This is a great expansion Hard drive massive amount of space usb 3.0 plug and play all day. I mainly bought it for the great price good product and price.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Storage
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Does what i needed it to, use it to store older video projects, footage, and other media i may need for later projects. Easy plug and play, though it is powered separately.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Easy to use.
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Easy to install, Great protect, just the righr size.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Large capacity and reasonably fast.
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Has large storage capacity. A reasonably fast drive for backup of valuable documents and photos. Much less expensive than an SSD with this capacity.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Speed
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
So far, so good...
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Was not immediately recognized as USB storage by my NAS but once I created a Volume, it saw the whole drive. Really no user instructions provided. Seems to be working fine, and very fast, even just over USB.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Ease of use, Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very good purchase.
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Posted . Owned for 5 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Lots of space to store my videos. Very easy to set up and use.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This is a Great Product at a Great Price
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This is a Great Product at a Great Price! Ordering waseasy, my chosen product was available and it arrived in good condition at my residence. Clear instructions and easy to use. Would recommend ⁹
I would recommend this to a friend
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Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Just what I needed
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Purchased for work files that are important. This space is bigger than what I needed but I feel better knowing I am able to not run out of space for my files. Just what I needed speed, spacious , security and safety.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Overall performance
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Works OK. Reformat for "File History" backups.
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I believe I received an "open box" item because the drive was not recognized by windows when I connected it to my PC, nor were the "quick start" instructions in the box. A friend formatted the drive on a Linux box, then reformatted it on my PC, and it works well now. It turns out that this was a "blessing in disguise" because the drive as formatted by the factory cannot be used for windows "File History" backups. After setting it up, working well!
I would recommend this to a friend
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Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
best buy
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Vast improvement from old external hd. Had a 1 gig unit. served me well for a number of years. But new 8 gig...Great
I would recommend this to a friend
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Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Portable and fierce recovery drive
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Huge amount of memory, and the ideal backup for my entire system.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
DRIVE WORKS AS ADVERTISED
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Very easy to get set up on desktop computer. Works very well. Speed between computer and drive seems to be very fast, cannot tell a noticeable difference when accessing computer drive or this drive.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
PS5 Extended Storage
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Easy to configure to my PS5, ton of storage. Transferring data back and forth between the two is pretty fast as well
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use, Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Value Great Price
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Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Easy to use. Great way to back up tons of photos, files and more. Can’t go wrong.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Large stationery drive
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I thought it would be smaller and portable.
That's why I gave it 4 stars.
I have a smaller 4 gb thats portable and powdered by usb. I love it
But I will make this work as my main dump drive. And keep my portables free space.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Plenty of space and speed
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This was a game-changer for my computer; it really opened things up for me.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Thus far, a great choice.
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This will do the job for a mirror for my other external drive. Thus far, it does the job pretty nicely.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works great! Runs cool.
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Posted . Owned for 4 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Works reliably and runs cooler than the equivalent competing WD external 8 TB drives.