Customer Ratings & Reviews

User friendly. Affordable and holds all my photos and videos with space to spare.

Good for the price! Reliable, easy connect and slim (somewhat).

If you want a big hard drive for the xbox one, this is a good one to get. price per TB is good and it's real simple to use on a xbox one. It formatted at 4.5 TB. It doesn't need a power supply either

I have had good luck with WD drives in the past, I have not had one fail as about every 2-3 years they fill up and I need to buy a larger capacity ... so they last. This Particular one is used with Kodi Home Theater Software for Movies and TV shows so it gets a workout. The last one was a 2 TB WD which I used there for at least 3 years but it filled up. A bonus is you get access to a special edition of Acronis Backup and Imaging software which can be used to backup or clone any brand of drives as long as you have the WD drive present. It is easy to use and works across all windows versions. In fairness I have also had Seagate drives and had similar luck with them. I bought this for about $90 on sale so it is a good value.

I've used Western Digital USB external drives for well over 10 years now and love how rugged they are, how fast they seem to be and durable for my uses. This 5TB external houses all the extraneous stuff - and there is about close to 3TB of stuff - that I didn't want to reside on the hard drive of my new computer. This fit the bill and holds everything I don't have to deal with frequently some of which might slow down the computer. This along with 2 other 2TB external drives by Western Digital are all I think I'll EVER need to accommodate what I save and keep but it's time to begin culling the over-fill and get rid of some stuff - which I already have. But this WD 5TB drive is small, sleek, sturdy and an excellent addition for my storage needs.

Good product for the price. The performance is on-par with the competition and the price point is value based. Didn't have to do any crazy formating for Windows, just plug it in and go.

This is a massive drive that is very affordable and has worked very well for me. The i/o is very fast even with large video files that I edit. Worth the money. Replaced 2 smaller TB drives.

Great product just as I have always come to expect from Western Digital!! Love this 5 tb external with TONS of room for backups!

Great price, and fast enough. Love the fact that it is compact and uses usb3 cable for power instead of additional power supply. Use this for Backups.

Great portable, large disc and a great price. I have had WD drives for years, both internal and external. Never had a problem and all are still working (a couple for 8 years).

Bought for my son for Christmas. He says it works great and gives him a lot of storage for his games. Very easy to hook up. It was on sale when I purchased it so win win.

I love this easy store external drive. The size is great for storing backup data files. It’s easy to use and has been very reliable so far.

The EasyStore is just the exclusive for Best Buy. The EasyStore comes with some extra software that I reformat. Hard drives generally last around 10 years max. To make sure it's the hard drive and not one of the many other things that can go wrong when starting up a computer, if possible, remove the hard drive and plug it into another computer. For a EasyStore hard drive to be able to be read from and written to on both a Windows and macOS computer, it must be formatted to ExFAT or FAT32 file format. FAT32 has several limitations, including a 4 GB per-file limit.

Great device for adding storage to my laptop. Portable and lots of space for storing all my games. No issues running any games stored on it and does not take up much space on my desk.

After losing valuable vacation pictures and videos when my WD Passport Portable Hard Drive failed, I purchased this Easystore External Hard Drive and love it! The speed is fast and there is plenty of room for all my vacation memories. It may not look as "cool" as some of the Passport drives, but the qualify seems much better. Time will tell, but I now make sure to have my important memories saved in two places!

I own several similar portable drives for backup storage because all drives fail eventually. Proper data security requires disconnecting drives between backups, a task made much easier when power cords are not involved. No matter the manufacturer, these types of drive all perform similarly (not as fast as a desktop external drive but speedy enough) and fail at the same rate (often enough that I always keep duplicates). Best Buy offers an extensive range of makes and capacities at very competitive prices. I buy larger capacities because 40 years of experience has taught me that too big today will not be enough before long.

Easy storage. Log lasting. Durable for lab use at a university

So far this has been a great little drive. It has a nice compact size with a fair amount of storage. I use it as the target location for the backup of my laptop and have not had any issues.

Great value to provide storage for all my important records and videos.

I've bought several of these over the years. They are excellent external hard drives, and have never failed me. The 5tb size is the largest size that does not need to be separately plugged into a wall socket. It runs on the power provided by your computer via a USB cable, so it's very portable. Just plug it into your USB port, wait a few moments for your computer to recognize it, and you're good to go. No formatting needed. These hard drives are well worth your consideration, especially when BB puts them on sale, which occurs fairly often.