Customer Ratings & Reviews

Amazing value for the storage size. I’ve been looking for a drive for months, this was the best price. Moved 2TB on it already and now issues.

Great price! No problems with setup. Fast and quiet.

Kinda big but its alot of storage, used for Xbox1 and lost almost a full tb with the "extra" stuff Microsoft puts on it

Really food price compare to other internal hdd. Some may say its not red label drive, but at this capacity you might expect its quality standard is consistent with red labels.

I had bought this product about a year ago and was so impressed, I bought another one. I edit a lot of photos and videos in 4k. This hard drive keeps up and you can't beat the price point.

Very high quality product. I purchased this one to work from and wanted something durable, high speed and light so it is easy to carry. So far, it has met all expectations. Great product and would recommend.

Bought this hard drive as a backup for my system. I've had it for half a year now and I have no complaints. If you get this at a sale price which Best Buy sometimes has, this is a steel.

I needed this for a quick backup for a server, 8TB over USB was too slow even with USB 3, but the case pops right open and then I was able to connect the drive to a SATA controller on the machine and backup at SATA speeds. Then just as easily popped the drive back in the case. Decent drive, decent case, fair price.

Has many great features. Easy to install and set up. Has added a lot of room for games.

This is an excellent hard drive that is easy to use. The only problem I had was at initial installation. Performance of the system was poor, the bluetooth connectivity was seriously impacted, the keyboard basically not working. Not much help looking around; however, one article indicated there was a Windows version and an Apple version: maybe I got the Apple version. A quick formatting of the drive took care of the performance issues. Backup works well and because I use the drive primarily for backing up, I uninstalled the other 2 programs Overall it is a dependable device.

Very small footprint, quiet, instantly recognized by windows 10, and a brand that has never failed me. Was surprised that the Light just blinks.... all the time...whether I am using it or not. But I ready that this normal. Would buy again.

Ordered three 8TB easystores. Ran SeaTools full surface scans out of the box with no errors. Filled drives with random video, re-scanned, and again seatools came back with no errors. Solid drives so far.

excellent so far, even though the shipper chunked it on my doorstep. great price, only complaint is it dropped by $20 a month later - oh well. excellent 8TB WD Red inside (checked by CrystalDiskInfo)

Works great, WD is the only HDD I trust, Not fast enough for my samsung tv but great for computers

What can you say Western Digital. They put out one of the best hard drives on the market especially the Reds that came inside the 8 terabyte USB external drive. I ended up buying 4 for a new nas setup

I was fully aware that the capacity labeled 8TB is not what you're getting. Having said that, why don't manufactures such as WD, Seagate and so on be more up front in their descriptions. The markets, meaning the Consumers have tolerated this and manufactures have continued with this misleading practices. On the technical sides from materials used, manufacturing process and programming, I can expect some tolerance. 8TB to 7.2TB, that's a good chunk of disk space that I paid but not getting. This was why I rated a 4 out of 5 stars. Now, for my reasons for selecting the 8TB WD external hard drive: Product reviews, quality of the product, price and company's track records. I owned many external hard drives from Western Digital, Seagate, Acomdata and some off brand. The Western Digital and Seagate have been the most reliable. Data that I have lost due to hard drives dying on me was worth more than the units I stored them in. With the two above mentioned external hard drive, I have more confidence and faith that it will perform it's intended purposes with time proven reliability.

This external hard drive performs excellent. Feel secure having it on all the time when connected to my computer. It is compact and does not interfere with other attachments.

A big solid high capacity drive. It uses an external power supply and is the size of a very large paperback book, so it takes up space, but is reasonable fast and quite. It has a lot of room for storage and can be used as a drive or you can use the auto-backup software included (I didn't)/ So far, no problems.

good large capacity for backup VM and PC images and setup is really quick basically just plug, power up then play.

I bought this to 'shuck' it so I could use it in my NAS. While the drive does work fine for this, you need to know a couple things. First of all I did not get a WD Red, the one I have has a white label. These are becoming more common. The cache on mine is 256MB, but 128MB cache is also becoming more common. Second of all, these drives may not work with your power supply. If you read up on these white-label drives, you will see that you may either need to apply tape to some of the pins on the power connector or use a IDE to SATA converter to power it, otherwise it will not work correctly. It's still good for it's price, I'm just disappointed they don't use Reds like they used to.