Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great storage capacity, throughput, and reliability. I buy each generation annually and this year's didn't disappoint! 14TB is the best so far! Quiet and reliable without much heat when run constantly during archive sessions.

I love this product as it has freed up so much space on my laptop and now, I have all my photos and videos in one place.

I purchased this Easy Store so I could have a backup of my photos all in one place. This is the BIG BACKUP to several smaller WD Easy Stores of smaller sizes. I do not worry anymore about a crash in my computer or of a external BU because this is big enough to hold it all.

Huge storage at micro price. Wait for this every Black Friday at Best Buy. Was a long term Seagate guy but after the tsunami, reliability suffered. That having been said do run something like Crystal Disk on it before use.

love it - has cleared up tons of storage on my desktoop. would reccomend it to everyone. so many opton and affordable.

Excellent, very fast and reliable. I have several items from this brand and so far they have all worked quite well.

I love these things. Ive bought six of these easy store external drives. They have all been great. The very first one i bought (3TB) used on amazon. It was nearly 3 years old when i purchased it. It lasted me another 4 years before it died. Life expectancy for a hard drive is 4 years. So im extremely happy. Since then ive bought a 4TB, 10TB and three 14TB easystore drives. Ive also bought several WD my passport drives. Ive been very happy with WD. I currently have my three 14TB drives installed in a Synology NAS.

Good for storage and a backup drive mostly. It doesn't handle 4k pro video or high quality photo editing very well. I use other drives to edit for video and then use this drive as storage. So it's a great price for backing up video and other big files. Don't bump into th epower cord where the power or usb comes unplugged before exiting file then what happens the drive crashes and footage needs to be transfered to another drive before you can recover and reformat. Has happen with over 4 of my WD drives.

Love this USB external drive. Tons of storage and easy to use. Also very slim and sleek. Doesnt take much room.

Great value when on sale for the storage capacity offered. The drive is noticeably louder than multiple 8TB and 12TB easystores I’ve previously purchased. The 14TB refuses to pass WD’s extended drive test but using other tools the drive doesn’t report any SMART errors or bad sectors after filling the drive three times.

This thing is awesome storage wise. But it is pretty loud when it’s on. I gave mine to my dad ‘cause it was too loud in my studio.

I now have four of these storing my Plex library. Shucked the internal drive and put it in my computer. None of them have failed me yet. Price is steep but they go on sale often enough.

I got the 14tb and it should be noted that if you are in a quiet room with this hard drive on you will hear a tick noise every 10 seconds.

Easystore is the Best Buy branded version of WD Elements drives. I have used these brands of drives for over 20 years, and out of over 2 dozen drives, none have had an issue except for a few that failed after over a decade of daily use. The two 14TB Easystore drives I bought in 2022 are performaning great.

Great external hard drive that lasts!! I've had many of these and have never had a problem. You get what you want.... tons of space for a fair price. These are fast hard drives also.

I bought this drive twice. The first one, after I transferred about 5TB to it, had a click that I noticed that was subtle but definitely there. I brought it back as I was concerned that there was something wrong with the drive. I got a new drive in replacement and then started the same data transfer and sure enough it started clicking as well. Then I searched WD support info and found that apparently slight clicks are normal operation for this drive. The drive has been running on my home NAS since then without issue. I put it in a cabinet so I don't hear the click and everything seems fine; no SMART errors showing up in logs. We'll see how it does long term, I suspect I might replace this drive sooner than average just to be safe. It took me quite a while to need a drive larger than 8TB so I may well replace this with another 14TB or so when Black Friday comes around again.

Huge size, I bought on sale for approx $189.00. That's hard to beat. I have used Western Digital drives for many years. Never had one fail. I will buy again if I have a need for that large of a drive again.

I purchase these drives to "shuck" to put for mass media storage. They work great for that, inside are white label OEM Western Digital drives. I've been doing this for years, its the best value per TeraByte you can get. However, it comes with risks. Opening them up voids the warranty so when they do die, if they die within a standard drives warranty range then you'd be better off buying a WD Red or Blue. But for cold storage, low frequency use and high data requirements, these are the best deal you can buy. I bought mine at an average price, but if you wait they can go on sale a lot and when that happens you won't find a better price for mass storage.

Mega Storage. I buy these and shuck the shells. I use them in my NAS and they are great. 14TB for $200.00 is fantastic. I bought four during the sale and wish I had bought more.

Not sure why people say it's noisy. Just put it on a paperback book or something. I can't hear it from where my computer is. Great for storing Steam Games, Origin, etc.