Customer Ratings & Reviews

Excellent value on this drive. It's not a shingled drive, so you get great performance on the data transfer rate. I copied massive amounts of files, almost all in the 20-50mb size, from a smaller Seagate Hub 8TB drive (also USB 3) and it maintained a 150MB/sec rate +/- 25MB or so. Almost bought another, but decided 28 TB of storage at home was probably overkill for now.

I have bought a dozen of these over the last 6-7 years for myself and family members, ranging from 4tb to18tb. They just work. Plug-and-play. No connectivity or transfer speed issues. No bad drives even after 7 years.

Fantastic drive, quiet, reliable. Great value if you catch it on sale.

Great storage, best value of money if you are able to purchase for $180

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

I've bought a lot of hard drives over the years and only time will tell how this one performs, and for how long until it ultimately fails as they all do. On the plus side, Western Digital has a very good reputation for reliability and customer service. The drive has one of the largest capacities of any single-drive model on the market, and Best Buy had it on sale at a very reasonable dollar-per-byte price point, making it a relative bargain. On the minus side, it has a 5400 RPM drive mechanism that is well below average in terms of speed. It has a USB 3.0 interface, but the drive speed is the limiting factor. I would recommend against using this as a boot drive or a boot drive backup. It's way too slow for either purpose. The SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD, also made by Western Digital, is a much better choice as an external boot drive or bootable backup, but a a much greater cost per byte. However, the speed is more than adequate as a media server or for serial backups. This is a great drive for use as an extended Time Machine backup. I did not test the included backup software on the drive. The drive is formatted for Windows computers out of the box, but it includes backup software for Mac computers as well. However, Apple's Time Machine is a better choice for Mac users, but that requires reformatting the drive. I have an extensive library of high-res music files, downloaded movies and personal photos. With Time Machine and this drive, I don't have to worry about accidental deletion of older files.

Huge drive, great price, no issues with the previous one, assume this one I'll be the same

Happy with this purchase. Easy to use and very convenient having this much storage.

I use this for an Xbox Series X, and everything seems to work great. It's a bit noisy compared to the console, but performance is fine, no issues with it.

Many, many years ago, I bought my first hard drive. It ran about $400 and was a whopping 40 megabytes. To have gotten a 14 Tb drive with 350,000 times as much storage space (not to mention far faster access) for less than half of what I paid umpteen years ago (and that doesn't even take inflation into account) is mind boggling. I've had good luck with Western Digital drives, both internal and external, over the years and I expect I will with this one as well. The only thing that keeps me from giving it 5 stars is that I haven't had it long enough to see how reliable it is.

Great value when you can find one on sale. Has been trouble free.

Great hdd, plenty of storage. Really reliable. This is my fourth hdd.

WD makes a very reliable external hard drive. I have several to store backups of photos and important data. Best Buy is my go to place for all my electronic needs. Service was fast and delivered before scheduled date.

Excellent deal, large storage capacity for reasonable price.

excellent HDD if you want a ton of storage space for cheap

Great external hard drive, it was a great price during black friday as well. very large

Soo I have a ton of external HDs, but prior to this one my biggest was 8 TB. I know they all are slightly smaller than the number they are sold as but that number increases the higher you go up in size. So little did I know a 14 is 12.7. Just keep that in mind if you need it for exact space. Works perfect though. Recommend on sale.

So far it works great! We are using it to archive older video production file from our server and needed something with a larger capacity. Any they had them in stock!

oh gosh, it is all that it seems. "No" these are not the fastest drives but what you do not get a 14T drive to use as a primary drive, that is what SSDs and M.2 drives are for. Low power -- for 24/7 use -- and acres of space make it the well nigh perfect backup drive or net server storage for, say, security cams or media use. I shucked mine into a low-end QNAP NAS server and it works perfectly.

Excellent drives for a superb price. Where else can you get 14TB drives for under $200?