Customer Ratings & Reviews

Excellent for shucking and an excellent price per terabyte when I purchased it, much lower than bare drives. These have WD180EDGZ drives in them which are white label enterprise drives. Generally, the WD drives are easier to shuck than the Seagates and have higher quality drives in them. The drives perform as expected for platter SATA drives, just around 200 MB/s or so.

The word “easy” is an apt description for this device. Very simple to set up the backup process. The only concern I have had is hearing a clanking sound sometimes coming from the drive. But I have had no problems accessing the data.

This drive is my second. It provides a great storage capacity especially for old video, audio and photo files. I don’t think it is fast enough to edit off of. Instead it is a great place for it to live after I am done. What I like - overall storage size and look of the drive housing. What I don’t like - block style plug, lack of USB-C compatibility, and when my Mac is asleep occasionally the drive spins up and sometimes makes a grinding sound.

So glad i bought this external storage beast. I film and photograph a lots in 4k so nothing couod handel a backup of my material in one place as this one. The best is the trnsfer speed from the camera pro cards us really good. I had a 5T and the speed is way slower. Great for the money specially i bout it for 200$

Bought it on 199 special. Tons of storage for the price and there's actually a great Enterprise HDD inside. Can be "shucked" and placed as an internal drive too. Performance is around 300mbs in/out. Maybe more, only checked once.

VERY SATISFIED WITH PRICE AND CAPACITY. PERFORMANCE ARE ALSO VERY GOOD AND I HAVE WHAT I NEED

The price was right ($249.99) so i bought 2-18TB. WD and I go WAY back. Back when they sold 1 TB drives. I average a couple of years before i retire them to the closet. I am happy to say, I have NEVER run into problems thus far. Knock on wood (My head)

Easily best price for wd hd. Wd have been my go to for drives for a while now. Still have my 200 gb wd working. Seagates have never lastest me more than a few years. Can only speak for their consumer line not the ironwolf line. Seems like 10-11 dollars for 1tb is the sweet spot.

This is actually my second 18tb. The first one still works well and is connected to my open media vault server. I needed more space and decided to take advantage of a flash sale. I have had the best luck with western digital out of 4 drives they all still work and I have only had Seagate drives die on me. Even without the flash sale it's still a good deal at 350$.

I bought this external HD as a replacement for my old 3TB HD as it is nearly at capacity. Both the 3TB and 18TB HD are from the same manufacturer and I've never had any problems with these drives. However, it would be nice if there was an on/off switch for the external HD, instead of having to unplug it during periods of severe weather. Overall, it is a good backup to have in addition to a cloud storage account with a cloud storage provider.

$329 for 18 TB of space is excellent. The appearance of the drive is decent, it has a bit of noise but nothing that will bother most people and the speed is so so. Overall, very happy with purchase, and if price is taken into account, it deserves 5 stars. Have only had it for a week so I cannot speak about durability.

I was thinking of getting an external drive for backup purposes, and went into a Best Buy store to see out of curiosity what was available these days. I was amazed a consumer could now buy a 18TB drive, at such an affordable cost - plenty of room to last for a while, at such a good price. In fact, later today I am going to order 2 more of them online.

What can I say... TONS of storage for a fair price. Transfer speeds are good, access time from first connection is good, response time from idle is good. No issues. My only complaint is the drive is a little noisy. But since I only use it for periodic backups, noise is not an issue.

Pleased that I was able to grab this at a discount. Great way for me to centralize all of my storage and keep things organized. Not sure how I was able to manage without it.

This WD easy store 18TB External USB storage hard drive is amazing! Plug and play. The storage capacity is out of this world a great rice to the amount of storage for the price. I have hundreds of movies downloaded on it and I am able to carry it with me wherever I go and have access to movies anywhere.

Awesome - big and more for a desk too but loved all the space

huge storage for a decent price, Western Digital is the best brand when it comes to hard drive

When on sale this is at a very good price per TB you get, haven't had any problems with it working properly, got to my home within two days just as it said in the order, very simple to set up. Didn't have any issues. Have bought quite a few of these over the past couple years.

The storage on these is HUGE! I use them to initiate automatic local backups of my computers on a regular basis. It's important to back them up since you can replace the device but not necessarily the data. Having backups makes it easy to restore if anything is ever damaged or lost. Price was excellent! Just plug and play!

$250 for 18TB is great option for backups, archiving, TimeWarp on Mac, etc. I can switch between Windows and Mac, and have separate partitions configured and everyone is happy. ExFAT is the format that both can natively read/write, but the Windows backup disk image utility wants it to be NTFS, so I created a partition for that. I used my Macbook Air to do the partitioning, as sometime on there wanted Apple file system, but with 18TB, this wasn't a big deal. Comes with Acronis backup free version which isn't too bad at all. It is very slow though, but I run my backups overnight so doesn't cause any issues really. It gets about 300 MBps where external Samsung SSD gets around 1000 MBps compared to internal SSDs about 3-7 times that.