Customer Ratings & Reviews

Well, this sort of product, when it works, does not need 50 characters! I can see WD paired with Best Buy to deliver what a conventional hdd is needed for: plug in storage, that is it. When you do not want encryption, software (you get some but I don't need it), fancy cases or lights this is what you should get. Careful about moving or dropping it of course, I recommend you do not use this while traveling, I've had bad experiences in the past with hdds in backpacks, moving from the home office to work or customers' offices, etc. All you should care for is quality and $/storage regarding this type of product. It is my personal recommendation: expect all hdds to fail someday and be ready! I obviously cannot know when I buy a HDD if it will outlast the previous one (1st portable hdd that I bought is still good, cannot say the same for others that I bought later!)

This is about my 5th or 6th WD portable hard drive that I have purchased from Best Buy. I use them to back up my photos to them. I have had a few laptops in the past that crashed and I have lost my pictures, so now I make sure to back up my computer and phone pictures to an external hard drive ( I actually save them to multiple hard drives in case one of them fails!). These hard drives give me piece of mind that I am not going to lose all of my precious memories!

Easy set up... Western Digital is a great brand and stand by their products.. compact design.. easily hooked right up to my PS4 with no issues and now have 6 TB of storage for all my games.. I will never by a game on CD again it’s all digital for me!

5TB for $100 was a great deal! I bought this to store all my 4k videos from my GoPro. Installation and formatting on my iMac took minutes and the small size meant that I could easily keep it out of sight and take it with me any time I needed to.

Small, compact, easy to use and lots of space. Great for backing up pictures, files, videos, etc. Comes with USB cord and is powered through the USB port.

This external hard drive is very easy to use. It holds more than I could ever need it to, and I love that. It’s very compact and light, which is nice. This is my second one purchased, as I gave one as a gift. I would recommend this product to anyone!

I love these size and the capacity of the external hard drive. Well worth the price also. I’m using this with Mac air computer and greatly enhances the capacity of my new computer

reasonably priced. great size. easy to use. withstood a few drops already.

The tech guy recommended this for my PS4. Very easy to setup. Plenty of space for everything my kids download! And you can't beat the price. If you need more storage and don't want to spend a small fortune, you can't go wrong.

WD is one of the oldest companies in the drive/ storage business. I was happy to find this 5TB storage. Price was easy to take. The drive works perfectly. I use it for backups of everything. I unloaded the software that came with it. That was a great option. It had more features than what I needed. Thanks.

Excellent portable memory, durable, easy to handle, large capacity, excellent price, I recommend it.

This is perfect for backing up your Laptop, PC, or photos when you run out of storage on the cloud. It is portable, works great, has decent speeds, and very reliable. WD is the king of hard drives!

Purchased this for our son as part of a birthday present / He is real happy to have a place to put all his pics and vids so his system would not be bogged down / I would recommend this product for purchase.

This is a basic drive -- nothing glitzy and nothing speedy -- but is perfect if you are like me and just want a large drive for saving video and data backups. I liked it enough I bought a second one after I got this one. I appreciate that it is bus powered, which means your computer will give it all the power it needs. Its compact size is perfect so that I can carry it with me to transport large video editing projects between my home and office; its mammoth capacity means I can use it for video storage _and_ also Time Machine backups on my Mac (I reformatted it to APFS). I just recommended this drive to a friend who asked for my opinion on a good drive and then thought I'd take my recommendation and share it here, too.

This is a great opcion, so lightweight, to much small than I expect, great performance, and pretty good price, so in general this was a good purchase and was the best option to my son

Large 5TB External hard drive with USB 3.0 Works well for what I needed to do. Had to consolidate files from a bunch of smaller drives. External and internal, did exactly what it’s supposed to do. Also price was right for under 100.00. Just hoping it’ll last and not breakdown on me. Best bang for buck if you get on sale. Rating quality high for now, as long as it holds up.

Love the portable size, memory capacity. It is easy to pack and carry and is quick to load up on my MacBook Pro. I have tried several brands but these guys have the best product at the best price.

5TB for under $100 bucks, sold! This this is compact and very reliable. I use it for USB extended storage on PS4. Games are loaded onto this drive and performance is great. It's nice being able to store all my PS Plus games on here.

Super easy to set up, small footprint, fast and reliable. This is my second purchase of this drive series. I have a 4 and 5 TB version. Love the way they work. I store photos on them for work.

A really great hard drive for my PC. I have loaded like 25 games in it and hardly moved the needle. Makes for great storage of any and all files. Extremely easy to use. Jack it in to your USB 3 and it works ! !