Customer Ratings & Reviews

Plenty of room to backup your files. However, be informed that the backup app that comes with this device is outdated. I almost return the product because I thought it was defective. I had to contact WD for help. It turns out you have to install Acronis from their website for the backup app. Once it's installed, I had no problem with the device.

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

Good disk, great price. Runs a little hot in the case, you might want to put a small fan blowing on it. Tested with WD DLGDIAG extended test, no bad blocks.

Great product with a reasonable price. We are able to move massive files without any problems. Very easy to set up and use.

I use this as a backup and to host my media files on Plex. It replaces a 10GB Seagate External Drive. Performance on the WD is than than my Seagate.

needed a nice big hard drive for media storage purposes after older one died and this was by far the best price per storage value after searching around.

Bought during a sale for 200 and it's definitely the best price point per TB and should be picked up anytime it reaches < 15/TB

This thing has been great for filing my movies and videos. They basically all I have on there. The write speed is not slow but not fast either. It is fairly loud though, but I got it on sale and like I said it does what it needs to do.

Amazing drive. From the WD Family this is my 10th. All have been running 24/7 for 2 years now. No errors. When on sale (~200) it's an amazing deal.

Good performance. Good value (I bought it 2021 BF Price). I also have 10TB version which is working fine for two years now.

Works Great! Pleanty of Storage! Pretty Good Price!

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.

Large capacity drive, great for tons of backups. WD reliability

Was so glad to purchase this WD easystore external hard drive for a near bargain price. This was something I could not pass up. There is so much hard drive space, I could split it up 3 ways to back up my desktop and laptop along with my mom’s laptop, or even clone one of these PCs if I wanted to.

I got this external drive for an amazing deal. I pretty much use it as a NAS by connecting it to my router. I have been using it for backup purposes for over a year and it's still working great.

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.

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 far I like it, but it does make some different sounds that I heard and wasn't sure what it was. It is the hard drive starting up when I login to my computer. So far it works great and seems to be plenty fast for what I am doing. I may move it to the other side of my tower to hopefully cut down some of the noise it makes. It isn't loud, but a noise that I hear. Some people may not even notice it.

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.

Easy to set up even for mac. Runs fine with a little noise