Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great hard drive! I love Western Digital's reliability and value!

Does its job, good price per gb and seems plenty reliable

Absolutely phenomenal deal for the amount of memory I got. It does seem to load slower sometimes for some reason but not a big deal.  it is a hard drive after all.  don’t regret the purchase at all. 

Great drive, great price, a really good price for the size.

Lots of storage space, with bargain price. Great for apple time machine.

Not to big and does exactly what it should. 12TB of storage. Well more like 10.9TB I believe after its formatted. That's no fault to the drive as that's with every drive. Trying to find this in stock is currently hard to do. Finding it in stock on sale almost impossible. Hopefully can snag another one soon.

Great external HD, easy to use, and high capacity!

I bought a second unit so I could have double guarantee that I won't lose my valuable photo files from my travels. Easy to hook up and use, quiet operation. Uses very little desktop space. I ;love it!

A good drive that was on sale for a great price and isn't a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) model like the cheap Western Digital models or those horrible Seagate drives that fail if you looked at it cross-eyed. I just wish hard drive prices weren't still artificially inflated since the 2011 Thailand floods.

I use this drive to store huge backup files of 50G - 300G in size. The transfer speeds copying to this 12TB drive from an internal SSD are a consistent 160MB/Sec. The same setup using a 10TB WD Elements destination gives consistent 205MB/Sec performance. Not real noticeable unless copying the larger files. The reduced price makes it acceptable, but wish WD would publish the transfer speeds in their specs.

Great disk for backups of photos. Large, and seems to be steady and sturdy. It is great for large number of files backup. I would not use this as a cache disk or other things that need speed.

When you are a Gamer. You have to keep getting Higher hard drives.

This has been very useful when it comes to storing a lot of my games that go up to 100 gbs in size, among other things like projects, mods, and such.

Built a new computer, needed a place to gather all my files! This was a great deal! Lots of space, even after dumping all of my files from 30 years in IT! Still plenty of room!

I been running out of space for content for my Plex Media Server. I went into bestbuy to exchange a faulty mouse when I walked by I happen to glance over and found the drive was $179. CRAZY! I grabbed it up was thinking about getting 2. This thing performs great avg copy speed is 200MB/s. It is in use 24/7 hooked up on my desk connected to my PC. Very quite drive with little to no vibration. Once the 2 year warranty is up I plan on shucking this drive and connecting it directly inside my case. Great drive if you need to store large backups or host lots of media content.

I own varying capacities of this drive model. Since I use a notebook computer, I don't have the ability to expand storage on the notebook to hold all 85 terabytes of adult video. I would go with a NAS solution but I have become too lazy to make that migration from external USB storage. I get solid speeds of up to 130-140 mb/s... which for my purposes of shuffling and enjoying adult videos is perfect. I haven't experienced a failed WD external drive in 6 years. So, for somebody who treasures his adult videos, I fully endorse this product.

I've used several of these WD drives 24/7 and they all run quiet and reliable. I has total confidence in WD over Seagate drives that will start clicking and grinding in a year. Since they are priced as low as the Seagates, it's a NO BRAINER to pick WD!

Great value when it is on sale. Easy to set up. Just plug in the power cable and the usb cable. Bestbuy should fix the specifications information on the webpage though. It is listed as 7200rpm, but it is actually 5400 rpm. Wasn’t noticeable for my uses, but it may be important to others.

I needed a drive to backup to. I don't need insane speeds or anything like that, just something to use as a secondary backup should my primary fail. I have many WD drives and all of them perform well. I have 5 WD NAS drives in my NAS, and those have performance exceptionally as well. This drive is plenty fast for what I need it for, and is an okay deal for 12TB. I like that it doesn't come with any extras, as I just wanted a drive to dump files onto. I also have an 18TB, 16TB and 14TB version of these, and they all perform well and handle the beating I give them daily. If you need a reliable, high capacity external HDD for backup or to use as a "dump disk", this is a good choice. I will update this review if there are any issues, but so far it is doing well and serving its prupose.

Excellent amout of storage space for the price! I have a lot of old family movies and pics that I need to store. I have enjoy the speed when moving data from one location to another. Again, 12 TB for the price is awesome!!!