Customer Ratings & Reviews

Easy to use portable hard drive. Installation and setup went smoothly. Lots of space with the 5TB.

Love the size, portability and shoes. Great for having a backup as well as extra storage.

Very fast backups and syncs ! spacious and very good storage for the price. Sleek and love its performance.

Second time purchasing Western Digitalexternal hard drive. The first time I purchased a 2TB hard drive to expand my Xbox storage. This time I purchased 5TB to backup a computer I'm thinking of replacing just in case the internal hard drive fail. The device can be held in one hand. It's extremely light weight compared to other external drives. It's a simple USB connection to use the device.

easy to use economical small size prefer longer cord so not laying on desk

Easy set-up Holds a ton of data - backed up my desktop

It is very compact and plenty storge to save my files! it is a very reasonable price too.

If you want a hard drive for your money this is for you. It’s realiable and easy to use.

Very compact, easily sits on top of your XBox. I was very happy to see that it came with a USB 3.0 cable. I'd purchased a different one a few years back and had to go get a cable. Formatting is super easy, just plug it in and follow the on-screen prompts. From plugging it in to ready to go couldn't have been more than 3 minutes. Now my son can download games w/o having to juggle them to make space.

I love the space and it is easy to back up your products! I’m a photographer so this is essential in my day to day work.

"Outstanding product", I highly recommend Easystore 5TB External USB 3.2 Gen1 Portable Hard Drive. It certainly increase my storage capacity, and it also increase my Desktop Pc speed! This is certainly cheaper than buying a new desktop PC. Buy it you will just Love It! Thank You Best Buy, Laurence Guidry

With files getting larger and storage constantly running low on external drives this little, yet large capacity, drive comes in handy for many purposes. I do a lot of family photo and video movies of events and then compile them together for each year for archiving on blu-ray disk. A work space like this is great for this purpose. I trust WD drives much more than others and look forward to years of use.

Better value for a large portable drive, yet small enough to take with you. Having a protective carry case can prevent shock to unit is a plus. 5 TB for a 2.5 inch drive provides plenty of space.

WD Easystore 5TB is great for saving data for your computer. We use it for backup of all data and photos. We have a separate folder for photos and music. All the WD are easy to use and just plug into your computer and it will recognize your new drive. It's small size makes it great to transport and share your photos and music on the go! 5TB is a lot of space!!!!

Maybe premature since I don’t know how long it will last, but it seems fine so far

Great bargain and has been reliable so far. 5TB and USB 3.0! Easy to use and set up.

Affordable 5 T backup storage. Compact size. USB connected. Easy setup and use.

Best value for money! Data was intact, despite i/o failures. WD tools installers are on disk, on first use I used it to initialized the HD to exFAT format. When transferring data, encountered I/O error twice in 3 days when copying went over 20 minutes on macOS Big Sur, on Late-2013 Macbook Pro. I erased the harddisk and returned it, but noticed that the I/O error did not occur when secure erasing for more than 16 hrs. This kept me thinking, so I bought it once more same day I returned first purchase. Then same issue with second disk; the disk content disappears, and on force eject, fails to mount com.apple.Diskmanagement.disenter error 0, then on manual mount takes a minute but comes back with all data intact. Then I just thought of trying this with my 2006 Dell Inspiron, old core2 2GB hardware, took a day to install Arch Linux on the laptop, and add exFAT support, after Ubuntu 13.05 also hung copying after 2 hrs. However on Arch Linux on Dell, it has been more than 2 days of copying (16 Mb/s), but there has been no issue. I am glad I gave it benefit of doubt, bought it again, though I had to take trouble of installing a lightweight linux on my old laptop. I don't know why the I/O error occurs on Mac, but work perfectly with my Sandisk 2TB, and WD 1TB all exFat, or incompatibility between macOS Big Sur and exFAT/WD Easystore. Positive points for me are the big space, and that the data was intact despite disappearances.

A great, portable, durable storage device. I have 2 of these and my first one is still running great, prompting me to purchase another one. it's pretty rugged and has withstood all the bumping and motion from being in my backpack during my travels. Has yet to malfunction or not run when plugged in.

Have used these external HDrives for years for duplicate storage, with pics & videos on them to clear my laptop storage and all are still working like new with absolutely no issues. Very happy