Customer Ratings & Reviews

It was a great purchase, the pricing encourage purchased but it exceed our expectations.

I've always used Western Digital drives exclusively, internal and external, and have so far never had a failure. Maybe it's luck, but I'll keep buying them. This one was plug and play as usual and catching it on sale was even better. Recommended.

I bought this on sale for $199, and that makes it a good value for me. I don't think I'll ever fill out the entire drive. I have the same drive that I purchased a couple years ago that is connected to my computer that I use as the main storage. I keep pictures, documents, ripped CDs, ripped movie files in this drive. Still plenty of space left. I bought a second drive to back up my files from my first drive. Pictures, videos and music files are invaluable to me. So, backing them up is a no brainer for me, and this drive feels like it has unlimited space for my usage. I don't keep this drive plugged in at all time, so it won't break or malfunction or become corrupt if I kept it on and plugged in at all time. I back up to this drive as soon as I save new pictures and videos into my main drive. Just FYI, this drive stops spinning after a period of inactivity, which is great for longevity, but you'll need to wait 10 seconds for it to "wake up" if you need to access it. If you need immediate access and quick speeds, this is not the drive for you. Go for an SSD.

As easy as an external HD goes. I've had this for a bit over a year, and it's still going. I had to restart it manually once after a power spike in my apt complex. Other than that it is service me well.

I had a drive starting to show signs of going bad. This gave me more than enough space to store two of my older storage drives and is faster to boot.

One of best storage size for dollar purchase when on sale. So far this is my third purchase of same brand and model line of item, all of them are different storage sizes. So far have not experienced any defects in any of the products. I do not use any of the WD application software.

I’ve always had good experiences with WD drives, and this one is no different. I bought it to use as a safety net when moving all of my files from my old desktop to a new one. It works well and meets my needs.

Good storage device for home. These are reliable harddrives for home use with a good warranty. The only negative is that they constantly get better and larger year by year so you can get a better one for the same price next year, but you can say that about almost all tech. I recommend this for home use.

This is just what I needed. Something to set on the desk and house my video and music files. Easy setup. I'm using it for macOs, I had to download 2 pieces of software, and then that was it. Follow the prompts.

Good value external storage! It has plenty of room and the price is very good during Thanksgiving! Have been using for over a year now and works very well!

Great hard drive for the price. Used the 15% HDD recycle program to lower the price even more. speed is around 200MB/s. The drives does get a little loud at startup (self check I'm assuming) but acts normally afterward. Overall, great backup drive.

I’ve had good luck with these for backup memory. Easy to use and performs well.

I was running out of storage space on my desktop. I had already added a 4TB internal drive, and already had an external eSATA drive (2TB). I was discounting using a USB drive verses an eSATA considering the 6Gbps of eSATA and wondering if that was the right move. I did the research, weighed the options, but ultimately the price prevailed, as at least I would have the storage space. Now that I have it, I can say that there is no question to go this route. It has performed flawlessly, for one. The CPU load accessing the USB seems to be less than with the eSATA, so the performance seems to be less intrusive. Also the real-world usage appears to be faster. I am using the drive to stream video to my Oculus Quest 2 via Link (USB) and have had no issues. If you have USB 3.x I would highly recommend this for a storage solution. I have not yet found a down-side. As an aside, this was a b-day present to myself (actually purchased *on* my b-day) :-)

Great product if you need to store data. Need a outlet plug cause it has it's own power. Seems to be real fast on transfers at about 190 m/s. Bought several of these to store company information. Great alternative if you do not have the space inside your computer.

Pretty Great Storage Drive. Good speeds for me as an average user storing lots of junk. I haven't used it to try and run games off of it. For the price on sale, it's a good value.

Works like a charm. I got this drive mainly for music files and storage to organize my work. It doesn’t leave home so it will last many years.

This is a great external hard drive for storage, backup, etc. The price was really competitive as Best Buy members had early access! Superb product and very well worth the cost. 14TB can easily hold all my videos, photos, and music files that I have collected over the decades!!

1st one gave I/O errors so returned it for another. Very unusual for a Western Digital drive to be bad out of the box. The 2nd one has worked and performed flawlessly. Us it to perform daily backups on two different computers.

huge amount of storage for the price! so far so good no issues yet! hopefully no issues ever! once it wakes up from sleep its plenty fast..no complaints

Love it! I transferred all my movies, music, and pictures here from other Western Digital WD products. I love WD I've had their products over the years and have NOT had any issues. I'll keep buying their products through out the years.