Customer Ratings & Reviews

Excellent performance so far. Very easy to set up.

This is my 4th one of these…. Price is great when on sale… use one to store images and other to backup…. Never no when something goes wrong… so I always backup.

Good quality easy to carry from one place to another.

very good component to keep your files safe and have a good backup

I have used so many of these drives from western digital without any issues so far. This one was a pretty good price for a 5 TB. So far I have used the 1.5 TB, 4 TB, and 5 TB units.

5TB (5000GB or so) of data that you can fit in your pocket, and around $100 usually? And all you need is a USB port fast enough to keep up (usually USB 2 and up will do). My PS4 and PS5 had limits on how many PS4 games they could store for playing. With how PS5 and PS4 can pick up and play fully installed digital content from an external drive, I decided to get myself a big enough drive to accommodate my growing PS4 library. Despite it being USB 3, and PS4/5 having fast data read speeds on their ports, we're still dealing with a physical hard disk as the slowest component of the overall speed here. But it is a fair tradeoff. If you're willing to wait a little for a PS4 game to load (based on how big it is), then the price for storage is a fair trade. Anything faster will be an SSD, but SSD pricing can get crazy (a 2TB can be in the $100-200 range depending on quality, but going higher than that will exponentially bump the price up). Overall, it's a good drive. Just be sure to turn your consoles off (not rest, turn off) before you unplug it, disconnect the cable at both sides so you don't worry about it getting bumped or bent, and keep the drive stored in a space where it won't get bumped, dinged, hit, damaged, or destroyed.

These drives are great for backups. Reliable, compact, easy to set up. No issues at all. Have several.

Got this on sale and have been really pleased with the amount of storage I got for the price. Have used Western Digital for years and have been pleased with the quality of their Portable Hard drives

It works well but to get it to work with my MacBook Pro it took a little while and it was a bit of a learning curve.

Reliable, fast for a non-SSD drive, have used Western Digital drives both internal & external for a long time and have always found them more than satisfactory.

This is a great portable hard drive. Transfers are pretty fast, not the fastest around but they’re decent. I’m currently using it as a secondary storage for my main computer.

Rock solid HDD for use with Xbox Series X! Works well with good read/write/transfer speeds for BC games on Series X, or for backing up your Series X titles to free up internal drive space.

Got this on sale - and it's worked great! I actually have two of these and the first one I've had for 2-3 years with no problems. Great for extra storage for Xbox games/photos.

I used to have trouble with WD drives but these have been working well. No troubles with it over the past few months.

Purchased this to extend the memory on my PS4. I've always been a fan of WD drives and this one specifically meets my needs due to its compact size.

Excellent value for the price, huge drive, great for backups and stuff you need to keep but don't want to clog up your computer hard disk with, works as advertised.

We had been using an old Seagate external hard drive for quite some time. When I saw this one and how compact it is, I decided to replace it. You couldn’t beat the storage amount and price.

I have bought 3 of these, one for each of my kids for games, school work etc..it works very well and the pricey is good. So far so good.

This was for my Wife so it needed it to be small & durable. It is perfect for her sewing room work to keep a backup of her sewing patterns and machine instructions.

I personally like this item because it holds plenty of my important files and besides that went it comes to pictures don't even talk i free up a lot of space on my laptop.