Customer Ratings & Reviews

Have several of these, no issues to date. Very reliable. Perfect for media libraries - Shuck the case and drop into an NAS. Perfect, and the best value on the market.

Haven't had issues so far as I use it on a daily basis.

This is great for massive storage but not great for things like video editing simply because the drive has a tendency to fall asleep to save power. So if you hit "play", it might take a couple seconds for it to wake up and kick into action. So this drive would be great to make back up copies of everything, or for playing movies (because who cares if there is a three second delay before an hour and a half movie starts playing), but I wouldn't use it for things where that delayed reaction would kill you. BTW- ALWAYS MAKE BACK UPS! Never trust that any drive will last forever. They all break eventually. If you store 12tb of precious family memories in one place, and it crashes, you have lost a lot. I would also recommend keeping a copy in another location in case of fire or flood.

Like most Western Digital external drives, this one is a good value. I bought it to upgrade when I needed a little more space (replacing an old 4TB USB 2.0 WD drive, which is still working and can still be used for other files), and it's doing the required work quickly and efficiently.

Using it as a external Plex server storage. Running great and have had no issues. I mean its a HDD.

Easy to install and configure USB with plug & play ability. Lots. Lots. Lots and lots of storage.....

I am a DJ and I needed to back up the hard drive I use when playing music. I also needed a HD for storing music I download from my record pool. It has been instrumental with safeguarding my music that I pay a lot of money for.

A great way to store large files. WD is known for reliability and that seems to be the case with others I have purchased. You can't go wrong.

works exactly like I wanted it to. Good price good size

Easy large storage device. Quiet operation and it stays cool inside my desk cabinet. Actual usable amount of storage is closer to 10.5 TB.

The magic of storing data electron-by-electron has brought about a revolution in computer storage; YouTube could not exist as it is when mechanical, character storing drives were the thing. This drive is easy to set up and use, and even features a transformer plug that does not block other outlets on a power strip. An excellent high capacity drive, reasonably priced.

Bought these because I read online they contained WD Red NAS hard drives in them. The case is easy to crack open and install into my Synology NAS. Purchased 8 of these so now my home server has over 62 TB of space. At less than half the price of 12TB WD Red NAS hard drives, these drives are a steal. They have been running non stop in my server for over 100 days with no issues.

Insane capacity. Very simple to configure to my Mac Mini. Works like a charm. Exactly what I needed.

i love wd products. great for building plex with my tv shows and movies on it. got it for a great price. so much storage

I purchased this to take the place of 2 ext HD I had for music and movies. I am pleased with this so far, but there is 1 little thing that is annoying and everyone should know. This thing vibrates like CRAZY. I was feeling the vibration in my desk and I could not figure out what it was. I at first thought my PC fans were going, wrong.....this drive spins up and it puts out a very very strong vibration that travelled through my desk and to my keyboard tray. It was SOOO annoying I had to remove it from my desk and put it on the floor. If you plan on having this on a desk next to something, I would look elsewhere or get a SSD version. Other than that, the drive is fast and it works with no issues so far.

Looks like a decent drive with large capacity and good build quality. So far it runs smoothly and hope it will last long.

Great price for 12TB. Some noise when in use but good performance for a 3.0 HD. I recommend SSD .

Price and size were a winning combo for me. Used with a Mac. They have been my choice for years

Reasonably large External drive for file backup that is speedy and reliable, but be careful not to drop it accidentally!

If you are looking for just storage, this is just for you. Adds space to your laptop or desktop, but this is not portable and does require a power adapter. Make sure you have USB 3.0 or better to take advantage of the fast files transfer speeds, although it will still work with USB 2.0, but it will be considerably slower. Fast, simple, easy! Buy today!