Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

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 ! !

Got this unit to replace a backup drive that had less capacity in a much larger package. So far it's been a great purchase, a great value. Of course it's not a solid state drive, so not quite as speedy as might be ideal (occasional short lags when opening a folder, for instance), but can't beat the price. It's very quiet as well, unlike a lot of hard drive units. Be aware that, as with most all advertised drives, the claimed capacity is in trillions of bytes, not true terabytes (1 TB = ‭1,073,741,824‬ bytes). So it's advertised as 5 TB, but technically it's about 4.6 TB - that's what File Explorer will show as the TB size, for example.

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.

Great little external hard drive. Lots of space and super compact. It's very handy that the power and data transfer cable are one unit, so no keeping track of an additional power source. Easy to travel with.

It's been an excellent drive for backing up my system/data. The USB 3 is pleasingly fast. And, at lesat so far, the drive is reliable. It's size is very convenient. The price was unbeatable.

So much storage! Easy to use, password protected. Small in size.

Fantastic product and extremely easy to use. I just built my first PC and this is fast and reliable. 5TB is perfect for me for a couple of months and this was a great price. I will definitely recommend it to others.

I love how compact it is to art all heavy videos (suck as 4K) and pictures. Very useful and it is what I was lookin for: compact with a tone of space. Easy friendly to use as well, I recommend this product.

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.

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

Amazing to get so much storage in a unit the size of a makeup compact. Easy to plug-n-play, then transfer all the files we want to keep safe.

Great hard drive. I haven't had any problems with it. Huge capacity, small in physical size, easy to travel with, does exactly what I need it to do.

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

Light weight, very easy to use, can hold a lot of data. We love it.

Small and compact enough to fit in your pocket. Easy enough to use it's plug and play. Moves files at a decent enought speed. Inexpensive

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.

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.

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.