Customer Ratings & Reviews

I've only had this HD a few weeks but so far, so good. I purchased it as a backup drive for my home theatre media server, which is an older Mac Mini but running the latest version OS. BTW, I'm anxious for Apple to update the Mini so I can replace my old one. I use it for storing all my music, iPhone tones, Podcasts, and a ton of movies and video. All that content is stored on two external HD's so I needed an even larger HD to back everything up. I'd been looking at NAS servers but the price was a bit prohibitive right now. Then I saw this HD on sale at BestBuy and leaped on it. The drive spends most of its time stored in a cabinet and is only periodically connected to do a Time Machine backup, then again put away. My only dig was it being formatted FAT32, thus the 4 stars. It wasn't a problem formatting it, just an annoyance that in this age, with the ever increasing popularity of Apple's ecosystem in both the consumer and enterprise market that WD doesn't readily offer drives in Apple's format. Hopefully, I won't need to once again buy an even larger backup HD for a year or so without drive makers offering much larger HD's at a reasonable price. I imagine I'll eventually have to end up buying a NAS so I can more readily swap out its drives as needed, but for now, this Western HD is doing the job.

Got it on sale and have been very satisfied. I use it on a Mac so make sure to use the WD utility to format the drive instead of Disk Utilities

Great deal, works perfect. Replaced my old hard drive that crashed

I've purchase two of these for raw storage and they hold up very well. Quick seek time on 3.0. Wish it had the ability to be on a Ethernet but that's an upgraded model. Only reason I have given it a 4/5 the other I purchased had to be replaced within a year. Again manufacturer did a good job replacing but just lost some data due to bad sectors on the drive.

Worked well and no complaint. With the discount, priced perfectly.

Works great. I never have any issues with western digital products

Good product worked as advertised. Did the job and does it well. Easy setup and got it working quick.

Very easy to setup, no unnecessary software or drivers to install. Works perfectly out of the box. My only issue is that I need all of my drives to sit horizontally, and this unit only has rubberized feet for sitting vertically.

Great capacity, fast .15 gib per second. I use this in a raid array of many of these disks.

The hard drive is quiet and fast. Fit the purpose as stated in box.

Ive had a lot of external hd's in the past, and recently jumped in to buy this because i wanted to use it as a media device on my network. 8TB is a lot of space.. only thing i dont like is the spin up time, it takes a bit to open. not too long, but i wish that time could be reduced. anyways its been reliable so far. no complaints.

I bought this to expand the storage of my PS4 Pro. This is great!

Easy fast setup. No lag or delay in search and loads photos fast.

Product meets the required expectation to complete our backups...

Excellent hard drive with lots of capacity for everything I need.

This hard drive is used to save photo files, especially RAW files.

Will never run out of storage if you are a ordinary computer user

Fast usb 3.0 drive, easy to run between my Mac and my windows pc!

I bought this hard drive as a backup for my Xbox One S to my almost full 4TB USB WD external hard drive. Works great, just as advertised, and I got it while it was on an incredible sale, so it didn't hurt the wallet too much either.

It was exactly what I wanted and I am pleased with this purchase