Customer Ratings & Reviews

The packaging of the drive was very good, protecting it from any mishaps during transport. The drive itself makes unnerving noises during reads/writes. Completely different from its 12TB variant. I performed several tests and found no issues. The drive is not really well designed for constant use as it heats up quickly. If you need to use it as external drive, you need to cool it using external fan.

Great product for a great price. For the price of this Western Digital hard drive, the amount of storage you get is unbeatable. 14 TB’s of storage is so much storage that I don’t believe I will ever run out of storage space with this unit. The hard drive appears to be excellent quality and I have personally had very good luck with Western Digital products being very relatable and long lasting in the past.

Mass Storage = cheap price = good performance = excellent value!

Lots of space and easy to set up and use at a reasonable price.

With apologies to George Carlin... I filled up my easyStore 10TB a while ago, so offloaded to another drive. Thus was looking for additional capacity. 12TB's were on sale occasionally, but decided to wait for the 14TB. Who knows when or if a 16TB easyStore will arrive. And my wait was rewarded recently. Ordered it on 3/17. Initially said it would ship in a week, but shipped on 3/19 from the Chicago area, got it the next day in SE Minnesota via Fedex. Inside a larger shipping box with inflatable bags to fill the empty space to keep the external drive box from sliding around. I ordered it so I didn't have to run clear across town to the local BB. Plus avoided the city sales tax as I am outside the city limits in a township. If there are problems I can still return/exchange it to/at the local BB instead of paying to ship it back. CrystalDiskInfo reports WDC WD140EMFZ-11A0WA0 5400 RPM. Firmware revision 81.00A81 Windows properties has Capacity: 14,000,517,541,888 bytes 12.7 TB First is decimal (1000's) second is binary (1024's) Divide the first by 1024 enough times and you will end up with 12.7 Powerbrick is still 12V 1.5A, but is rotated 90 degrees compared to the 10TB brick. Will fit better on a typical power strip, leaves more room. But at 1.2 inches wide at the base the bricks can't be adjacent, at least on my power strip. And the brick also partially covers the next ground pin. But a two wire plug should fit between them. First thing I did was run ChkDsk: 20:33:38.65 Fri 03/20/2020 C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk f: /f /r The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is WD 14TB. Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ... 256 file records processed. File verification completed. 0 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ... 1 reparse records processed. 286 index entries processed. Index verification completed. 0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found. 1 reparse records processed. Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ... Security descriptor verification completed. 15 data files processed. Stage 4: Looking for bad clusters in user file data ... 240 files processed. File data verification completed. Stage 5: Looking for bad, free clusters ... 3417964753 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete. Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems. No further action is required. 13351933 MB total disk space. 37864 KB in 13 files. 84 KB in 17 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 483451 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 13351424 MB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 3418095103 total allocation units on disk. 3417964754 allocation units available on disk. 5:12:44.92 Wed 04/01/2020 C:\WINDOWS\system32> That took almost two weeks, Stage 5 took most of the time. Then I ran WD Drive Utilities Complete Drive Test. That took about 23 hours to run. Lastly I ran HGST DFT (Drive Fitness Test) SMART Extended Test. That also took about 23 hours to run. In conclusion ChkDsk /f /r is by far the more thorough test. (Used Auto Screen Capture and MouseJiggle to capture the screens and to keep Windows 10 updating the windows. Standalone exe's, no installation needed.) Robocopy'ing (multi-GB size files) from the aforementioned offloaded drive to the 14TB was running around 110 MB/s write speed. Both connected to the same Sunix USB4300NS USB 3 card. Took a combined time of 27 hours to copy 9.58 TB from the offloaded drive and the easyStore 10TB to the 14TB. Had some three wire Thermaltake TT-1225 case fans removed from a disposed case. Mounted them on bolts to blow up into the enclosure. Pretty quiet. During the robocopy, the 14TB was 27 degrees. The other drive, 7200 RPM, in an Orico 6619S3-US-BK open dock, was 42 degrees. So far, so good...

I am a photographer. My camera files are very large. I purchased this drive to store copies of my pics. It has performed well over the past year. I am considering purchasing a couple more to back up my files should the unthinkable happen.

Ive been using WD products for a long time eith zero issue. They make affordable, robust hard drives and this one is no different. Works as an excellent backup drive for my short films and photography work.

Lots of storage space. Easily removed from the case. Con: It's noisy and makes noise for no reason when not in use.

My phones and laptops were running out of memory and I needed something for storage. This was a little more than what I was looking for but it works perfect. It’s not really compact as its lower Storage counterparts, but definitely not as bulky as I expected. Just have to wait and see how long it lasts. As of now, no complaints.

I attached this drive to a Synology storage system's USB port. I used the Synology's operating system to connect the drive and it works perfectly as a USB added storage drive.

As others have noted, the formatted size of this drive is only 12.7TB. With that being said, I purchased the drive on sale and used my rewards points to get a pretty good deal on this drive. I like the size of the unit and that the power supply is pretty compact compared to other external drives that I've had in the past. While I've only had it a short time it seems to be a good drive. In one review I noticed that they said it was a noisy drive, mine is super quiet so I'm not sure what they were experiencing.

Very easy auto use plug and play lots of storage very affordable

WD - easystore 14TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black was a must buy due to the cost per terabyte. When the price recently dropped (thanks Best Buy) my son called me and gave me the good news. He bought one and suggested that I do, too. I immediately ordered the drive and Best Buy delivered it very quickly. When it arrived, installation was easy; I downloaded the WD tools and ran the tests. They are shown in the photos below.

I like the room, the price, and hopefully the reliability.

Tons of storage. Easy to set up and surprisingly quick. I used it for footage and haven't seen any issues whatsoever.

The drive was recignized right away and is more than fast enough. It's reassuring and convenient to have all that storage. It does emit a little noise...an occasional clicking, but it's not bothersome to me at all.

Love this HD. Glad it was in stock at Best Buy and very easy to use.

Very reliable and much better than the other brands. Good speeds upwards usually of 150KB through the UDB3.0 connection. Bought it on the black friday event sale at a suburb price that best buy had. You wont be disappointed I. This purchase any of the easystore western digital products will serve you well. Did not remove for shucking purposes.

Great value for such a large hard drive. I like many other purchasers have used my Easystore 14tb to increase the amount of storage on my home NAS. It's been running for over a year with no issues. Easystore is the way to go if you are looking for affordable large capacity hard drives.

It's an external storage that works exactly like it should. My one complaint is that the WD software included on the drive would not load properly, but frankly, who needs it? And for the price, it's quite a bargain, even when not on sale.