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Model:
WDBCKA0040HBK-NESN
SKU:
5792400
Your price for this item is $189.99
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Customer reviews

Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 2957 reviews

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    Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars

  • Quality

    Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars

  • Ease of Use

    Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars

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96%would recommend to a friend

Customers are saying

Customers are positive about the easystore 4TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive's large storage capacity, ease of use, and reliability. Many also appreciate its price and the convenience of the USB 3.0 connection. However, some customers expressed concerns about the need for an external power source and the included software. A few also mentioned some noise during operation.

This summary was generated by AI based on customer reviews.

The vast majority of our reviews come from verified purchases. Reviews from customers may include My Best Buy members, employees, and Tech Insider Network members (as tagged). Select reviewers may receive discounted products, promotional considerations or entries into drawings for honest, helpful reviews.
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  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great backup external hard drive

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Has all the capacity that you will need for the next several years. Contains a WD blue drive now instead of the red. Also has no encryption like the mybook.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Not sure what I need, but great buy for photos.

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I wanted something to store, important items, and I did not want to slow down my mac with all these type of storage items. I got the item on the deal of the day, hope it lasts a long time and keep all my data items without ever losing them.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Awesome value

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Best part was tha this product came with $20 coupon for portrait innovation

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Price

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Used for PS4

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Needed more space for my PS4. This worked great! Transfer rate was a bit slow but that's to be expected. So far so good and a great price! Just connected it to my ps, formatted it, and it was ready.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Reliability

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Best Buy & WD Partnership is Great!

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    Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I've been buying these Best Buy exclusive Western Digital external hard drives for years and they have yet to fail on me. They are good, reliable and affordable drives. Exactly what I'm looking for.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    just what i needed

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    i needed an external hard drive due to the amount of pictures that my wife takes. computer was getting slow due to its hard drive being near capacity. now i have plenty of space since i transferred all of the pics to the external drive

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Cons mentioned:
    Noise

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    No Red Inside

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I bought this. There are some noise, and there is WD blue inside, not red NAS.

    No, I would not recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Price, Storage

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Great value

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great amount of storage space, really good value for the price. No complaints.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Good price good product

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Im not a professional but its a great product for normal people like me, fast and easy to use. The only thing that I didn't know was that it has to be plug in to an outlet but I haven't try to used it unplug to the wall to see if it works like that

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    very easy to use and great value for the price

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    Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I bought this a while back and it's really easy to use. Plug it in and you're ready to go even without the WD software. I filled it up quicker than I expected and just recently bought the 10TB version.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Awesome, plenty of space

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Very fast loading time on Xbox one x and simple formatting for Xbox one x

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use, Storage

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Easy to use

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    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Easy to set up and plenty of storage for photos and documents.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Price

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Not bad

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    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I like the older my books but these easystores are better with no hardware encryption. The ac is a vertically aligned brick with takes up some room. Otherwise quiet and seems to run cool unfortunately these no longer come with the red nas internal Wd drives but rather the blues. Still at about 25/tb is a relatively good bargain. Very quiet. No internal fan but not much heat.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Reliability

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great Price for 4Tb

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I have used WD My Books in the past. I have found no difference in performance with the EasyStore. I use these external drives with my media server. We watch plenty of digital content and have had no issue with speed and response times. Great value

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Good value, reasonable all around

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    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This is a very nice little drive. Nice looking. Speed is pretty reasonable. It does come with a combined USB 2/3 cable which I didn’t have before

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    it works

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Works just as promised No problems noted What else can you say about it

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Usb

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great drives

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    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I needed drives to put in a Synology DS218+ so I purchased two of these on sale after hearing that they had WD Reds inside. Now I have 8TB in my Synology and two cases to put some extra drives in that were just laying around.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Nice desktop HDD

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    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I already have a portable 3TB HDD, and was looking for a larger one. This WD 4TB was easy to install and got ready to use as soon as I hooked it up. With the BestBuy discounted price, I could not miss it. I am very happy with what I purchased.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    On sale

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    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This product was on sale and couldn't pass it up. Speed is awesome and the backup software that comes with it works very well without having to use other backup software. I have tons of backup/storage. One can never have enough backups.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Reliability
    Cons mentioned:
    Power

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Great backup drive

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    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Good overall performance. Does require wall outlet for power.

    I would recommend this to a friend