Customer Ratings & Reviews

Thus far, this has served its purpose for archiving my massive amounts of video data. I had a previous 5GB WD external hard drive that died, and this was used to replace it. When the previous one died, whenever I would pick it up and tilt it on its side, it would make a sawblade-scraping sound, which ultimately led to destruction of some data. This one makes a similar sound straight out of the box when I tilt it, so I'm afraid it may have the same issues sooner rather than later. As long as it is in its proper upright position, it has no issues reading/writing data, makes no obscene noises, so hopefully it lasts longer than the other one.

It's a large, inexpensive, portable hard drive. it comes shipped with WD's crapware, which is annoying, but you can delete it easily enough. It will work exactly as expected and fits the price.

I got this for ~$200 on sale and ripped it apart and threw the white label drive into my computer. Cheaper than buying a non-enclosed red drive and not difficult. You might still need a jumper pin for these for that to work but I just use the sata-pwr to molex adapters instead.

I needed an archive backup drive when we were having newtork and server connectivity issues. I connected the new drive and it was immediately recognized. Backups and transfers go smoothly. This is well worth the money if your aren't into putting your valuable data up on "The Cloud". Capacity of 14 Tb is probably more than you'll ever need but that's what Bill Gates said about 20 Mb hard drives 40 years ago.

At $199, this is a great price/per TB deal for a drive that is quick and not too loud.

Life saver. Me and my wife are streamlining or household files and we haven't even even gotten this thing 30% full. I love it. Simple plug and play.

So much space , 14 TB for a great price! Im able to safely store my files and this was easy to use.

Nice storage size and easy to setup. Works well hooked up to a raspberry pi for a home NAS

Excellent value external HD. Massive 14 TB of storage for a very good price. Cost per TB is likely the lowest to be found. Highly recommend.

Great for storing lots of data. Has been reliably working so far. I've stored all my pictures and media in it. Read and write speeds are good.

easy to use and setup. I've had other smaller drives, this is the perfect drive to back up my projects, and other data.

I've have not had a WD die one me. I hope this one lasts as long. On sale, it is hard to beat. Just know that WD has not adopted MS calculation of storage so the storage will show up at 12.7 TB and it is not a mistake. FYSA.

Easy to use. Plug in, format and store files. Works well as media storage for Plex server. Files stream with no issues even using usb.

12.7 tb total available storage. I got this on sale, you can't beat that. It seems solid to me. I have 3 other WD products never had any issues.

This thing is just as advertised; nearly 14 TB of capacity. It's a bit slow (it's likely a WD blue drive inside), but this shouldn't be your every day access anyway, especially with how it will occupy a power plug. I'm using it for archival backups that I plan on performing every year; my everyday backup is still a WD 4TB (which ironically is now the same price as a 5TB, sad face), and that performs way faster with the smaller form factor, and doesn't need a power supply.

WD makes the best hard drives hands down. While i love the ssd drives for the fact they are silent, with no moving parts, hi capacity isnt available yet in the range of 10 TB or more. As a pro photographer i need 30=tb plus at a minimum, and use redundant backups for my hd drives, and will always look for the black or red label series as the most reliable drives. Over the years, i had many other brand drives fail, to the point i wont buy any product that features them, cheap drives cost you more in the long run, loosing valuable data.

Simple to use. Just plug it in and you are basically done. Takes up little space

Can't beat the TB/$ price when these are on sale. Great drive for many uses.

This hard drive is great. I use it as my storage for my Xbox one games. It’s super easy to setup and allows for tons of games to be stored.

The storage disk is very large, prepared a lot of movies for the children, can be carried at any time, when going out to play, you can watch at any time, very suitable for family use, its capacity is so amazing, recommend to buy it. We like the infinite fun it brings.