Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great external hard drive. USB 3.0 on windows 10 gives me speeds of an average of 100Mbps write while simultaneously hosting all my media files and being streamed by plex to multiple devices. I would HIGHLY recommend this hard drive to anyone looking for fast dependable storage.

I picked up this drive because of several other reviews. I picked it up on sale and for price/TB, it's a great deal! I've been copying data to it and it's practically silent. I will eventually take advantage of the WD Red drive inside, but for now I'm happy with this purchase!

I've purchased multiple Western Digital drives over the years. Always reliable and easy to set up. The only reason I keep buying new ones is that I store too much data!

I like the glossy, smooth look of the WD easystore 8TB external hard drives more than the WD Passport version. The price was better too for what I thought would have been the same quality. They measure approximately 6.5” H x 2” W x 5.5” D so are about the size of a small, thick book. They are bigger than a portable hard drive and must be connected to an electrical outlet to power it, unlike the smaller My Passport which is USB powered. I like the capacity and the price per TB is much better than a typical portable hard drive. The Bad I have connected the drive to an electrical outlet and it has failed to power on. I made sure the cord was firmly seated in the drive and in the wall outlet but it didn’t power on. I tried unplugging it and plugging it in again a few times and sometimes it powers on. This is disconcerting! I’ve never had this issue with a Western Digital Passport. I wonder if the Best Buy easystore versions are made to the same quality standards.

I purchased the 8TB WD drive as a second back up for my photographs and video, which require much storage space. I prefer smaller 4TB drives, because if the drive goes down, you can lose a great many files with a larger drive, but this is a second back up, so I took a chance on the larger 8TB so that it would hold more. It is performing well thus far, as expected. I have many WD drives in use, and I have only had one go bad.

Very easy to use. 8 terabytes lets me back-up everything I have, with room to spare. I have always had good experiences with WD hard drives,

Purchased it to backup my PCs and am very happy with the quality and capacity of this drive. It's truly plug and play, no need for configuration. It's fast and quiet. I highly recommend it.

Works great! Exactly as advertised. Very pleased with the product.

I bought this to use as a backup drive for my WD NAS. It was the right size at the right price on sale. Some reviews mentioned it gets hot, this made me wary, but I also have it in a fairly open air space and use a fan throughout the year so it will benefit from that keeping it cool. I haven't really check the temp as of yet. If I feel it's remaining warmer than I would like it to be, I will turn it off and only put it on when running a backup. Time will tell if it holds up or fails but, so far so good.

Just what I was looking for, item performs with no lag.

I'm a digital hoarder and can never have enough hard drive space. I’ll fill this up pretty quickly, but 8TB is a lot of space for most people, and it's nice to be able to add more capacity when the opportunity arises. Currently on "sale" for half price makes for a nice deal for the size being offered. The drive runs quite hot when you task it over longer periods, and it's moderately noisy, but I've seen and heard worse. Speeds are decent enough, but this will vary depending on what you're trying to do with it, which is typical of any drive. I don't hear the periodic clicking sound other reviewers have mentioned, and hard drives are NOT supposed to do that, so if you get one that does this, I'd return it, and others, as many times as needed until you get one that doesn't do this. The fact that some people are being told this sound is "normal" is laughable, although I suppose that depends on what your definition of normal is...I can only guess so that many of these drives were produced that had this defect, that it's considered the norm for its production; hence, it's "normal". Would I trust a hot running drive that makes clicking noises on a regular basis as my primary drive ...Absolutely Not!...And, only the future will tell if stands the test of time. But, I've had good success for the most part with WD drives in the past, and if you're just looking for a backup drive and/or extra storage space for relatively non-essential data such as games & movies, it's hard to find a size/price package that would be a better deal than this at this time. I do suggest making an effort to get some air moving in and around this drive however to help keep the temp down some.

Easy to store and backup and fast. Love the size i can place it anywhere without it disturbing me

Easy to set up & it is silent and works just as described in the accompanying material.

First off. The drives inside are WD Reds. If you don't know the significance of that, then stop reading, these drives aren't for you. If you do know what that means, you know that you're getting a $300 + drive for <200$. These drives work great in NASes ( what they're build for), and last years. I had 12x4TB reds in my NAS before (RAIDZ2), now I've got 12x8TB in RAIDZ2, with another 12 planned over the next 2-3 years. (In case you're wondering, I'm using 6 drives per vdev). Don't let the 5400rpm get you down, with 6 of these in a raidz2 vdev, I can easily push 600 MB + of traffic to these. when migrating my current NAS to the new NAS, I did a transfer using NFS over 10Gb, and was able to easily push half of that. NFS probably could've been tuned, and I was NOT using jumbo frames. Either way, you get a fantastic value for whatever price you pay for these, they'll last years.

What can I say it’s an external hard drive. Works as expected and high-capacity is excellent. At the time of purchase this was the best bang for the buck. I have had no issues yet and I’m happy with it

Had to return one because it was open but the replacement was fast delivery and is working great.

The 8 terabyte provides tons of storage and the Western Digital hard drive is very reliable. It doesn't have a fan so it would be wise to get a sub fan to connect to it to make sure it remains cool if you plan on using it for very long spans at a time.

Great product I have several of them and using a Mac but also connecting it to Windows I reformatted it and it works great.

Bought that during the BestBuy anniversary week during August for $159.99. Can't beat that for 8TB WD red drive... You can take it out of the enclosure and and connect it inside your desktop computer if you don't like the USB external connection speeds...

It works well to store your important files. Comes with a power cable and a USB3 data cable, just plug in and copy stuff! I'll be buying more. Only negative I find is that it runs a little warm.