Customer Ratings & Reviews

Sturdy and portable, large storage space.. good aesthetically pleasing design

I purchased this for my gaming PC and PS4 and it works great. The speed is perfect and I have no lagging when I play a saved game from this drive. You have to go up 8TB to get the speed as your drive on your computer but it is worth the investment plus you have a huge amount of space for games.

Works great for my Xbox Series X, it transfers games between the internal at a solid rate of 1 gigabyte every 5 seconds. So I can transfer a new Series X game from the external to internal rather quickly. As well I keep all my original One games on it and works great.

i needed it for my ps5,i had bought one for my ps4 and it worked great and i was correct this one is great too.

Bought this for PS5 storage. Great option for saving game data and easy to transfer back to the PS5. Also Great price because it was on sale.

It's a little noisy. Sounds almost like a refrigerator- humming. I only hear it at night, when everything is quiet. I purchased it for extra storage on the PS5, and it works perfectly for that. I probably could alleviate the humming if I laid a cloth underneath it. I have it sitting on the shelf of my entertainment center.

So far so good. This external hard drive is pretty quiet compared to some. I know this as I have fixed quite a few for friends and associates. Amongst other tests I have performed, with multiple PC's and laptops I have simply yanked the USB connector while an upload was in process. My concern is not being able to detect the external hard drive in the supporting operating system (Windows, etc.). No problems seen. From what I could find through research, this is one of the more hardened External backup drives available on the market. The last thing anyone wants is to have all of their life savings of data become unreachable, possibly forever. For the record, I have NOT received anything for this review. Just like you, I do not want to buy anything that is junk or that may fail in short order. The Component Design life of this drive is 5 years. This next number should also be mentioned. The Annualized Failure rate is less than .8%. The Annualized failure rate gives the estimated probability that a device or component will fail during a full year of use. From what I read, the yearly failure rate rate of hard drives in general has risen in the past three years, reaching 1.37% in 2022. For some manufacturers, after examining their drives through 2023, there was an increase in failure rates to 2.28 percent. This is a number you want to look at and review before you purchase an external hard drive. Be specific in your research, as this can be subjective. Just my two cents.

This is the ultimate hard drive for adding to a PS5. Gives you a huge amount of storage for PS4 games - and eventually it should work for PS5 games as well when sony makes this update. The drive is quiet and as fast as you can get at this size.

I purchased this drive to serve as extra storage for my PS4 Pro. The drive runs very smoothly, and I have not had any issues at all. Having an additional 8 TBs of storage has made it easier for me to have all my favorite games ready to play. I highly recommend this drive!

WD Black external USB 3.2 gen Hard Drive! Awesome pick up. Yes Hard Drive still here! This is fast enough for all the gaming. Load time is not able to compared to SSD. But for sure it great gaming option at highest volume.

This external Drive is awesome. So easy to hook up and it looks great next to my PS5. There is so much room on it, I may never fill it up!

Works great, saves space, using it to save data on the ps5, it's plug n play good to go

It was great for my ps4 pro , ps3 ,xbox360 and saving my retro games on my pc

Doesn't come close to read/write speeds of any SSD, but the cost:space ratio is worth the 10-20 minutes of delay to move things from ps5 weak onboard storage capacity to play at a later date. Same price, 8TB HDD or 2 TB SSD with 15 minute transfer speed difference. Learn some patience, read a chapter in a book, make a cup of coffee. Reflect on life, then game on.

My computer was so laggy. I installed this, and it is working like new

Great 8TB external HDD storage for a great price. I bought two of them, and haven't had one bit of trouble. I'm using them to store game files on a PS5.

Seems fairly quick on the transfer of files. Wish it were a lil more compact but it’s good otherwise

Great product meets expectations good buy great for x box or PS5 easy to use and hook up

It is incredible how far data storage has come in the past 15 years. Capacity relative to price point is so much better than ever before, and this external has been a great addition to the digital hoarding hardware in my professional content studio environments. I have been using western digital for almost two decades now, and have never felt safer with my data in terms of drive failure. This particular drive feels very well made, and is really attractive both with price point and aesthetic.

this has so much storage and is a fast drive too..