Customer Ratings & Reviews

This took the place of a dozen jump drives and is portable. Love the convenience and speed of it.

Great product. It meets all my expectations and more. I recommend this to others.

Bottom line: 4TB of storage in a small form factor from a trusted manufacturer. Pros: attractive case, easy to use included software Cons: USB 3.0 transfer speed As a general rule of thumb, I always recommend buying the maximum amount of drive storage possible. You'll surely use it later, and you won't have to search multiple drives to find the files you want. Western Digital is a leading manufacturer of external hard drives, so if you're backing up important files buy a name you trust. WD's software is easy to use and the drive is formatted as NTFS out of the box. Mac users will need to reformat the drive, but it only can takes a minute or two. The casing on this drive is textured, which reduces the look of fingerprints and smudges. It shares the same form factor as WD's external portable drives and is about double the thickness of the 1TB WD drive I already own. The only downside is that, as hard drive storage increases, aging connection and transfer standards such as USB 3.0 start to feel slow. It took nearly two hours to copy 1.75GB of data from two other USB 3.0 external hard drives to this one. This isn't really a criticism of the drive, but if you have a newer computer you might look at USB-C drives as an alternative.

As a 45-year IT pro, let's just say I am not a huge fan of WD. There are better drives out there, namely Seagate. BB does not sell Seagate. As an owner of a data recovery company, I can tell you why I go with Seagate, but I'll probably get sued :) If this is to be an intermittent-duty drive, then this 4TB will work fine. Remember, as the TB storage increases (all high TB drives have this problem) these drives tend to be a lot more fragile. Be very careful when moving this drive, if it is running. So, why did I go with a WD when I could have purchased a Seagate online? Buying at a local brick and mortar store creates local jobs. I buy everything locally because I want to see my neighbors employed.

Works perfect.. no problems and lots of space. Can't ask for much more from an external storage.

Great storage external hard drive is transfer speed is really fast and i purchased at great price.

This item is definitely worth purchasing. Just make sure to buy the item when it's on a good sale.

I bought this item to backup my old computer so I can get rid of it and it works like a charm

Perfect size, lots of storage. Easy to work and use. Great for files and lots of pictures.

Very compact and easy to use. A great storage solution for my photos and important documents.

I got this HDD with an amazing deal from Best Buy. 4TB is a lot of space. The build quality of the product is good and it looks sturdy.

Very happy with the drive so far. It gives new life to my 32mb SSD student computer.

I got a great deal on this product on Black Friday, 4tb is way over the amount I need but it’s great and allows me to backup everything

I like the size of this hard drive and the built it's excellent. I will really recommend this

So much storage. Bought this for additional storage for PlayStation 4 games! It works!

Very fast drive. Simply plug and play. Was delivered quickly and definitely would buy one again.

lot of storage place, very compact, very easy to use

Love fact that this is usb powered vs needed a separate power plug, and at 4tb, hard to beat. Big question is to see how long it lasts.

This thing is fantastic. If you get it on sale, it is well worth the price. I use it to hold all of my steam and epic games for my PC. Saves so much storage space, it is insane. You just plug it into your PC and choose it to save your files!

Tons of storage in a small package that is easy to carry.