Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great value and easy to install. Would definitely buy again.

Perfect for my storage needs. Was a simple plug and play.

Exactly what I needed for my home pc. The space and ease of installation meet my expectations.

I use these drives for backup purposes. I am a video editor and need to backup projects with lots of media and I need to do it redundantly. So once I archive a project, there are two copies in case one fails. These drives are not the fastest at 5400 rpm, but they are good enough for backup and are a good value for the price. I've been using them for a couple of years and I haven't had one fail yet. I recently purchased two more of them. I use them externally on a 2 drive dock connected to iMac or Macbook pro.

Had to return it because of the 4TB My security computer's BIOS only recognized 2 TB. Purchased the 2 TB model. The 4 GB was a bargain and most computers can use it. It is replacing a 15-year-old drive of the same model and brand.

When building computers, I only trust Western Digital or Seagate and this was a good sale price. Needed to upgrade from 2TB to 4TB. Mounting was easy as case had slot for the extra drive space for temporary setup for the transfer. The worst aspect was the software as there are no instructions or video and some of the "next" was confusing because you didn.t know what it was going to do. Always had a fear that the partition/format wound occur on the wrong drive and erase my 2TB drive being updated That would have been a disaster. My setup is and SSD that holds programs, and the 2TB harddrive that holds data - music, video,, photo, documents. First mistake I made was choosing "custom" setup rather than automatic. Went through everything but only partitioned and setup equal to the original drive, 2TB leaving the excess unformated and inaccessable. Started over using automatic settings, holding breath that didn't erase/format the 2TB drive. The other unspoken instruction was the need to go back agterwards and re-name the drive. The original 2TB was d: drive and the new 4TB had to be the next unassigned, or G: in this case. When complete and removing the D: drive, Windows could not recognize the files now located on G: drive. When D: was fully removed, launched the software and changed G: to D:.

More than enough space for anything and very easy to set up

It's fine, I'm primarily using it for media cold storage (photos, videos, etc) and it's working. No advertised RPM on the box so it wasn't until afterwards that I found out it was 5600RPM instead of 7200 but, again, it's a hard drive and I'm not using it for more than mass storage. So it's perfect.

Good capacity. WD drives have been reliable for me. Hope this is, too.

easy to install. lots of extra space. works great!

Lots of storage for a low price! Can't beat that combo thanks!

I bought this western digital hard drive because they hold up pretty well. I have not had many drives fail. This is a great value for a 4tb hard drive.

Pros: Good price. Read and write speeds are good. Cons: It's a bit noisier than other hard drives. In order for a Windows 10 PC to recognize it I had to go into "disk management" and format through there. It did not appear under My PC along with the other drives until I formatted and added the drive through disk management

Its a nice work horse drive for large scale backup. It would be nice if the warranty was better.

Excellent hard drive, I have purchased several WD SATA hard drives from Best Buy and have never had a problem or failure with any of them.

Don't lock yourself into the "5400rpm = slow" conventional wisdom. On a large capacity drive like this, more and smaller bits are more tightly packed on the platters. The bits still fly by the read/write heads at considerable speed. It's similar to DVD-ROM discs reading and writing faster than a CD-ROM, even at much slower rotation speeds.

Installed as expected, worked as expected. First of all, I got this to back up some old movie files for storage. I installed the drive, copied the files to it and then disconnected to power to it. So basically it is just sitting there as an insurance policy against my other drive crashing. It is doing well for that purpose.

husband needed more space for game downloads on his pc easy installation

Needed large hard drive for storage. This drive is just what I needed.

Great mass Storage and respectable read and write speeds for a hard drive. I need mass storage for video editing so I put this in my PC with my free Hard Drive Tray. When I use OBS as soon as I end the recording the video is almost instantaneously available as a file to be used.