Customer Ratings & Reviews

I got this to replace a different Western Digital external HDD model . The old one was a hermetically sealed plastic brick. Plastic doesn't conduct heat very well, so I guess the previous drive died from excessive heat. Its twin is still going strong. Its pretty bad when your backup dies, so you need to have a couple of backups, just in case. This drive holds the platters vertically, which I would think is better than horizontally like the previous drive. It also has vents, to let the hot air escape out the top, and cooling air enter at the bottom. Set up was a snap. It was plug and play with Windows 7. I deleted the software that came on the drive. I use SyncToy (from Micro$oft) to backup my data. I don't do a lot of accessing of this drive, so data transfer rate isn't a big deal. I seem to see about 18 MBytes/Sec using USB 2.0 My laptop doesn't do USB 3.0) It spins down after some length of idle time, but wakes up pretty quickly. The computer sleeps every night, but I don't have to do anything special to wake it up. 117 people found this helpful

Best thing i have ever bought for storage. I use it every day.

Nice to have lots of storage space. I connected this to the USB port on my mesh router. I can access it from any of my computers. I have media stored on it as well as backup directories for my desktop. I used to have a four-bay network appliance. But this stores more.

Excellent Hard drive. Quick to format and place files on or use as a backup after partitioned. Holds lots of stuff and is fast to find what you are looking for

I use this HDD as my secondary drive on my Xbox Series X and another one used for my Xbox One. Both drives have lasted and not had any malfunctions.

Got it on sale for $189.99 USD. This baby is outstanding in high speed performance since it came out off the box. It seems to be quiet not to loud unlike some reviews on the Website. I had so many Sea Gate hard drives from Costco but they are not as good as my new WD.

Bought two of these to include in a RAID 5 Array for my Plex server. They are easy to shuck and do not require the SATA power modification that has been required on some drives in the past. Overall, great drive at a great price.

Great price for expanding a NAS with WD reds enclosed. I know a bunch of people that shuck these since the internal drives are expensive.

Works perfectly fine, however, I wanted a specific model that suited my requirements. Ended up getting another Western Digital model with intended features.

I already have 3 and might be buying another one soon because of all the movies i own

Easy set up for my imac. Great deal on a ton of storage.

I love these hard drives! I use them to backup all of my data. I have multiple because I transfer tapes. They fit perfectly in my NAS system

The WD easystore 14tb external drive is a very nice drive. so far great write and read speeds over USB. The Disk management software isn't as bad and bloaty as it used to be. I highly recommend this for backing up day to day data.

This is a great backup drive. I was able to consolidate multiple device backups onto this drive because it holds 14 terabytes.

Plenty of storage, this is used as a back up drive for my photos. I have a second one that is my main photo storage drive, but I wanted 2 copies so this worked out fine. I have had plenty of WD hard drives over the years and I have been very happy with them

Excellent Drive. Quiet. Large capacity. Fast delivery from Best Buy!

Very happy with me new WD Easy store 14TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive. I use Carbonite on my Win10 BEAST of a Desktop PC, to automatically backup data to the cloud for offsite storage. I also use automated software to backup (nightly incremental) my internal drives to this new drive daily to have a physical backup at in case internal drives fail. I am a power user, Adobe CS, Adobe Premier, DLSR photographer, database developer and collector of games and software. 14TB is not as big as it used to be! +Good price per TB. +Easy to setup, was already formatted for Windows. +Came with a power supply and USB 3.0 cable. Posted 9/22/2021 Craig

Ive had this same brand for well over 12 yrs. Loved it. (AKA BIG UGLY)Never had any problems out of it. Was time for an upgrade. Love this one. Its a little smaller. But why change products when you have a good thing!

This is the Best purchase ever made. We love movies and a lot of our files goes to it. This will help you out with all the files you needed to store.Movies that are in episode will be stored really good with all the space you've got.

Was a good price when I got it. Good product, and shuckable! I'd recommend.