Customer Ratings & Reviews

You can’t go wrong with this 5tb portable hard drive. Good quality

Great external hard drive. I’ve trusted WD for hard drives for the last 10 years and must say that I’m happy that I trust my family pictures and videos on their hardware.

DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE! I used to be Western Digital's biggest fan. Not anymore. I bought four of these in the past year and a half. Two of them are dead. And here's why: Western Digital and pretty much every other hard drive manufacturer switched their recording process from CMR to SMR. This is too vast a subject to be discussed here, but you can do a Google search for 'CMR vs SMR'. I'll sum it up like this: In the past, I did all my archiving and video streaming using Western Digital Portable Drives. It was great. I still have every one of those drives and they perform excellently. Then I ordered some 5TB models and started putting data on one of them. After a few transfers, I started to hear clicking noises. I didn't give it much thought. That is until my computer quit recognizing the drive. I tried everything I could to recover the drive and save some of the data, all to no avail. To ensure the rest of these horrible drives wouldn't die on me, I created a program in C# that transfers a certain amount of data, then 'sleeps' the transfers for about 5 to 10 minutes before I had the transfers resume. This is working, well, just ok. I still hear what I now call, 'The Western Digital Click of Death', and the transfers can take up to a week depending on the size of the data being transferred. Do yourself a favor and get an old-fashioned internal SATA drive and, if needed, an external drive by from a company like Sabrent. For the hard drive, ironically, I'd suggest the Western Digital RED drives. The good ones have 'CMR' printed right on the drive. Get one of those. They're a bit more expensive, but worth it. To sum up: 1) Old WD portable drives were great. 2) The new WD portable drives money-sucking, time-wasting, data-destroying demons from the firey pits of computing Hell. 3) WD Red CMR drives are still the best around. Go with them for reliability. Their relatively low transfer speeds are a breath of fresh air after what I went through with the new SMR portable drives.

Good for your basic backups/archives. Uses SMR, but if that doesn't bug you too much and you're not using it for anything intensive, it'll do.

In great working order . . . The item is working and taking in the files . . .

This item works even better than anticipated! The quality and production is amazing and helps with my every day life.

So far works as expected. I would recommend. Replaced a MyPassport that failed.

When I want to save games on my Xbox One X, or Playstation 4 Pro this 5tb hhd hard drive comes in hand allot.

Lots of Space and easy to use Small enough to carry in my purse

This is the second one I have bought in two years. Very reliable and fast backups. have not failed me yet.

Purchased to use with PS5. Very quick and simple to install. Never have encountered any problems to date

Good product and fast shipping. This is a big and large room for storage all my picture and video Thank you

Reliable hard drive with a lot of storage at a great price. Really not much more that needs to be said.

Great WD External Hard Drive - easy to work with and understand.

Extremely for anyone to set up, plug & play. A name well respected in the External drive arena. 100% Satisfied

It's a Hard drive, it works like it should. I have some WD's that are at LEAST twenty years old and still working!!

Great portable hard drive for on the go. Very happy

Great capacity for a good price!!!! I love WD!!! Next couple of years I have space to back up all my Zoom videos!!!

Good External Hard Drive. Plenty of storage so I never have to worrry about running out of room.

Great for editing. use to store alot of my footage.