Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

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.

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

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$.

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$

I needed a backup for videos and photos that I took of my five children from baby to adulthood, as well as our three pugs that grew up with our children. I am beyond thrilled that I had such an amazing hard drive with so much storage space. Thank you WD Easystore.

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

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.

$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.

It's not a solid state drive but great for archiving all of my old footage. I purchased 2 18TB drives to backup all of my content.

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)

With 18TB of space, I no longer have to worry about running out of room for my photo backups, 4K videos, and large archives. The USB 3.0 interface provides consistent, fast transfer speeds that make moving large folders surprisingly efficient.

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.

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.

Great long term storage or back up drive! I would buy another one.

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.

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.

Great for backups but fast enough to work from. Great external drives and very reliable and the price/ TB is hard to beat even compared to similar internal drives.

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!

Good little storage that holds a ton ! Only issue is that it takes a long time to transfer footage because it’s a HDD . If you mind the long transfer speeds then you’ll want a portable SSD . But if you don’t mind the transfer speeds then it’s perfect.