Customer Ratings & Reviews

Have had a great history with WD drives, but this one failed at two months. Disappointing.

super slow................. takes forever and then starts and stops

Stopped working a week after the return window passed

I love it. Im using it for storing backups of pictures. I have terabytes of pictures . Plenty of room. Its faster than a regular hard drive. It's usual Western Digital quality. I feel itll last a long time. I have windows 10 latest update and it installed without any problems. It's not excessively noisy. I like it. Its a good value for my uses.

perfect for Gaming Storage and Hooks right up to a PC Work Laptop. this thing is all you need !!! BUY IT

I never thought that I would have a need for this much storage! Very pleased with this unit and it's ease of use.

FIrst I got WD 8TB Red NAS PRO internal, as I need to substitute my WD Blue 3TB Media storage. That drive temps easily got into high 40s Celsius during file transfer, too hot for my Desktop setup (I have 3 WD Gold Helium (2TB, 8TB and 10TB), a WD Green (3TB) and a WD Blue (3TB) and Samsung SSD as system drive). All my drives very seldom got close to 50 C, and only during hot Summer days. I needed new hard drive fast as something got corrupted on my Blue HDD and at that time I did not know yet what it was, HDD bad sectors or just files got corrupted (right now it seems like I got 5 corrupted media files, but planning to scan my Blue with HDScan just in case), so urgent rescue was necessary. WD Red PRO could stay somewhat cool only with household fan blowing directly into HDD cage, not good. So I looked around and saw a comment that External Black has HGST HDD, that was a revelation, and that happened during Black Friday, price dropped to $199, so I returned my RED PRO and got this Black one. As of now, writing my review, my files are getting copied to External Black from Internal Blue. I tried to put Black vertically as it should be, but my temps went up to 48 C very fast (MAX temp allowed is 60C), so I decided not to get any chances, placed Black horizontally, put 2 external 80cm USB TermalTake fans full speed on one side - not as loud as household Vonado fan and temp is steady at 43 C during past 5 hours of file transfer. Idle temp after transfer is 41-42C, so it gets only 1-2 C up during hard work with adequate cooling, that is excellent. Good choice for my needs. So I investigated a bit to figure out what is really going on with temps, as my WD Gold Enterprise Class HDDs run much cooler. Apparently, WD is moving away from Helium filled HDDs (Gold, or anything what have HE in model name) to Air filled, cheaper to produce, but Air filled HDDs are in fact run 10-12 C warmer than Helium HDDs. So my previous experience with WD RED NAS PRO was in fact normal, but it has to be run in very good ventilated Server, not tight Desktop. So, what is really inside of this 8TB Black box? HGST hus728t8tale6l4/UltraStar DC HC320 (AIR filled), which is Enterprise Class HDD coming to replace WD Gold Helium filled WD8003FRYZ-01xxxxx, which are discontinued a few years ago, but still possible to find nowadays. And External enclosure comes with 3 years warranty, which I guess is limited by enclosure, as UltraStar DC HC320 comes with 5 year warranty, which is a winner compare to 3 years warranty for RED NAS PRO. I hope it will last as my Gold HDDs (almost 3 years now, and all perfect) and longer. So get it before WD will realize that consumer don't need Enterprise Class HDD enclosure and will substitute it with something cheaper as it done in past - I have 6-7 years old My Book External 8TB Helium HDD, one of the first ones, still working like new, not a single hiccup. Nowadays regular WD Externals come with either Green or RED HDDs, which are far inferior to my 7200 rpm Helium. If it is not DOA or produces loud clicking noise, it will last most likely forever in regular consumer applications, so strongly recommend.

Awesome hdd im using the 5tb for my ps4. Easy to install plug and format.

Tons of storage. Can now clean up my PC and my wife's PC and phone moving pictures and still have room galore. Pretty much plug and play on my W10 PC.

I am using this with my PS5. It is working great and exactly what I needed.

So far, so good. It is operating as described, and is serving very well as 1 of my 3 duplicated video archive drives. All are WD_BLACK 8TB drives.

It was a good price for TB external hard drive. Not much else to say.

Everything that I expected works flawlessly highly recommend.

These are fast drives and much better then the normal WD USB drives

I have had this but a short time and it is performing fine.

Second WD black series for me, one is on a different system for the past couple years, never had any hiccup!

Super good value, super easy to hook up and use!!!

Added to my ps5 storage. Only paid $100 for mine new in box...!

This product works amazingly and has more then enough storage for you ps4 and 5 collection

It is the Best product ive bought for storage for the ps5.