Customer Ratings & Reviews

Simple setup, and lot of storage. It great for back-up storages!! Now I feel safe from losing my files.

Using this with a brand new mac studio and it has been very nice to keep my internal ssd free for the more important apps and other data that i want to be able to access very quickly. Being an external hard drive, it greatly affects the speed which data can be accessed, but it has served its purpose for me. The only complaint is the noise. When writing to the disc, it gets quite noisy, but this is not a deal breaker for me.

Big boy external hard drive. My biggest yet. I am used to smaller, quicker hard drives, but I needed to house some media and transfer a few other hard drive's data. I did that, and I still have 77% space left. I still have much to do with data transfer but I am sure this juggernaut will be able to handle it.

Best priced hard drive. I am using it for my backup to my server and no issues at all

Fine disk with a ton of capacity for backups... Very inexpensive compared to most other big disk options...

When ever the biggest capacity of these go on sale I buy a couple of them. Like others, I test the drive by doing a pre clear test, then if they pass, I shuck the case and add them to my Unraid server. This saves typically $150 over buying just the drives. I have been doing this for a couple of years with no problems. KEEP IN MIND: my review of these is based on when they are on sale... not retail price.

Excellent Drive, plenty of space, decent speed. The only down side I can find is that this Does NOT have a power on/off switch and is always on with your PC powered on. As A workaround I have mine connected through a USB hub which has individual port on/off switches. This allows me to use the Windows Safe Eject function to disconnect the device and allow it to sleep. If a built in on/off switch is important to you then you should look for the Western Digital version sold as a "Elements" drive I have numerous Western Digital drives (Green, Blue, Black, Raid Edition Re, and Gold) and have never had problems with any of them.

I needed some more storage and yhis fit the bill. Lots of dyorage at zn affordable price.

Western Digital is the only hard drive worth purchasing, have used many drives over the years and have yet to have an issue with any of the 12 WD hard drives we own. Our oldest WD drive was purchased in 2007 still going strong

Good buy for storage of files on my computer. Working good so far.

Lots of storage! Works perfectly. I would recommend formatting to EXT4 file system (much faster and easier on the hard drive)...although, that only works natively on Linux Operating Systems. However, you can download and install a program providing Windows with the ability to read EXT4 file systems. NTFS will beat up your hard drive (it’s a HUGE part of the reason why Windows slows down over time...either way, Windows is worthless)

Great drive with tons of space. It does require the use of a power cable (included) along with the USB cable. It's more of stationary drive than a grab and go type of drive. I shucked it (removed the internal drive) and I got a white label WD drive - WD140EDGZ. The drive is transferring at the 7200RPM range.

Great drive with TONS of storage. I’ve had it a few months and while noisy, it seems reliable

Easy to install, software included, huge space for the price. I almost missed this deal. So glad I didn't. I have used Western Digital since the good ole HDD days. They've served me well and that's why I'm sticking with this brand.

I work in professional film and video and have had hard drives fail on me (more than once). And many will say that all drives fail at some time. And I believe that. I've had more Seagates fail on me early. I've bought probably over 30 of these WD externals and have yet to have one fail. So I'll keep buying these to backup and archive my footage.

Great device, its plug and play. Doesn't need anything extra to work. Got on sale worth every penny.

great price and easy to use. clerk was very helpful in finding it in the store.

large storage for all digital files. easy to use.

Easy to use. Quick set-up. Price was good. Good to have peace of mind to back up all the photos.

Large capacity and very simple to set up. Works great for backups and storage.