Customer Ratings & Reviews

Works as expected. Good backup software included.

use it for my backup , is not fastest external drive but for the value and the capacity is worth it. this brand has a good quality product and I have few different product and they last for many years and that is the benefit of this product

This is a great data backup drive. Works perfectly.

Great external hard drive. Using to backup my NAS. Wd has great products.

Good build quality. Is fast and works well for us. Overall great product.

Great storage device for backing up any files or programs from your desktop.

I have 2 of these to use for my Plex server and to backup data.

This is a great external hard drive with very fast speed

Great drive. Helium filled. Low op temps. Highly recommend.

Drive is quick when transferring large files. Its Great

If you enjoy shucking your own clams, then this is the drive for you

Just plug into a USB 3.0 port and a power outlet, works perfectly!

Awesome, bought two. Love Western Digital HDDs.Love Best Buys' Sales too.

This is my 3rd WD that i have the best one with 0 problems ..............

Great external never had any issues with a wd external

Love it. Price is the best when shopping with bestbuy

Solid External Hard Drive, formatted to use a Mac.

love this brand....price is always great...can't for pice to drop again

I'm a fan of WD. I have three of them in 24x7x365 use. I've had very few fail over thirty years of using them. I've tried other brands, but for me, WD has been the most reliable for spinning drives. (I don't own a WD, or SanDisk SSD.) But this 14TB drive is now being repaired (in Windows 10) for the fourth time (actually that just finished and I am now checking it again). I don't trust it. I will get a replacement (I hope), and I hope it works better. A few hours after I got this, I started to copy data from an 8TB Elements that was running out of space. It failed after about 30 hours (and I cooled both drives, the 8TB WD Elements and this 14TB one with small CPU fans the whole time). After that first transfer failure, I connected it to a Windows machine (it's formatted NTFS OOB). Speccy showed that it had 144 hours on it. Who put the first 114 hours, or so, on it? I connected it to another Linux box to copy files after the second failure having it connected to the server that it's supposed to be on. It failed on that box for the third and fourth times. The 8TB WD Elements has never had any trouble (it replaced a piece-of-garbage Seagate 8TB that was as much trouble as this new drive has been). Another odd thing is that it makes what sounds like a double or triple seek every three seconds, or every five seconds apparently depending on how full it is and which machine it is connected-to, when it's idle and connected to any machine, as required for it to be powered-up. I haven't heard that kind of thing on an idle drive for a couple of decades, at least. Others have reported this as well. They explain that WD says it's normal, and not a symptom of trouble. (Did Seagate secretly buy WD????) As I wrote this, I checked it with Windows (10) Error Checking for the fifth time, and waited for that to complete. I'm happy (but not relieved) to say that this time, no errors were found.

Im using this for my photo archives. Not the fastest but suits my need.