Customer Ratings & Reviews

Easy to use, plug in and play and I would recommend formatting first and selecting GPT for partition table and creating your own partitions. Massive amount of storage and can get the 110MB transfer speed on a gigabit network with no issue.

BE aware that these drives have some tech in place to help them last longer that can be disconcerting. They spin up randomly and make a lot of noise. I don't think I ever had an external drive do this, and I have a lot of drives. It seems that the process is intentional, but it makes me nervous.

Good product, great price for 18 TB. Used it for a Plex server, tons of room for movies

Using this to backup several smaller drives with personal photos or work shoots. Excellent unit for bulk storage. Not high speed, but that is to be expected with HDD's this large. Best Buy will usually have this item on sale for a great price

As an avid media collector, I've got way too many Blu-ray and vinyl rips floating around. My 8TB external harddrive was getting pretty tight, so I upgraded to a WD EasyStore 18TB and this is the perfect backup solution. It holds all of my movies, TV shows, and music files. Transfer speeds are about as fast as a traditional spindle drive will allow. And for my fellow homelabbers out there, these ARE shuckable so you can get a few of these, remove them (carefully) from the case, and pop them into a home server, NAS, or a desktop for tons of storage.

Good storage! Bought on sale as I have couple of these so I can store my photos on it and not pay monthly for a cloud storage

I needed a reliable back-up option. Very easy to set up and use.

Compact size with plenty of storage space. I like the reliability I've experienced with WD external drives.

Good at providing me with extra space for my games. A nice hard drive that easily connected to my lap top. Just plug and play.

If gotten on sale like I managed to, these are a great cost per TB. However, These are the loudest drives I have ever used, and I've been computering since the mid 90s. I'm talking huge chonky noises coming out of this thing. When it spins up from idle it sounds like an old typewriter. It can be heard in an adjacent room.

Huge reliable storage at a great price (during the BB sale!)

This drive is a great deal for the amount of space you get. Sometimes it can spin a bit loudly but is still working great after 3 months.

EASY TO USE, EXCELLENT, I RECOMMEND IT FOR STORAGE OF ALL YOUR PICTURES AND VIDEOS.

Great drive at a great price. It was absolutely plug and play just hooked it up and it works like a charm.

Plenty of storage, Easy to use and backup software comes in handy. Not sure if I will be using it or not. still testing

Western Digital Hard Drives are the best as far as I'm concerned. I've had othe name brands that have failed time and time. My Western Digital's haven't failed yet. Been using them for a very long time.

Holds it all and been solid and reliable for years

Works great. Great deal when on sale. Will probably get anithwr one fkr a NAS.

Good price for a lot of storage. Was really pleased with how quickly the 8+ TB of data I had on scattered drives copied over to this drive. Happy to now be able to back up regularly to a single drive.

Western Digital is still the best in Hard Drives in my opinion. These are great drives with a lot of capacity and all of my WD drives have a longer lifespan than any other brand.