Customer Ratings & Reviews

Whatever deal was struck with WD, Best Buy is able to offer the least expensive external 8TB hard drive on the market whenever this goes on sale and this SKU is completely exclusive to Best Buy. Six months in and no reliability or noise issue to report. Expect transfers of around 80 MB/s on a USB 3.0 connection.

8TB Easystore (BestBuy exclusive product line) uses quality 5400RPM helium filled Red (WD80EFAX) or white label (WD80EMAZ) drives, these have NAS/RAID features (i.e. TLER) that are important for some uses. The high-capacity drives are a great value, especially during frequent sales. Thai produced drives have 256MB of cache. Runs a bit hot in the plastic enclosure, not much room inside. If you plan on writing TBs of data at once, keeping a fan blowing over the drive may help. For my use case (NAS/media servers), both red and white label drives worked out really well (no 3.3v issues with 3 of my EMAZ) in my Dell R510, with Unraid directly accessing/managing disks via H200 adapter flashed to IT mode.

I puchased this for my PS5 the PS5 only supports up to 8TB of external hard-drive storage but I had to prepare myself because those game are gonna take up alot of space get it while its on sale 8TB is an insane amount of space ill never run out of space

Does exactly what I need it for. Cold storage for 5 years of content that I need access to in the future.

works great saved my pc from loss of documentation and photos

I love Western Digital external drives. I have 3 of them and they have been very reliable. Back up ALL your files to stay safe!

Very plug and Play Easy to use Easy to set up No maintenance

My main reason for purchasing this drive, was the reliability of WD drives. The fact it had an enterprise level drive inside was the deciding factor. You may or may not get one of those drives inside, but either way, you get massive, quiet storage. This is not a drive for speedy writing or access, it's for data archiving, and using for streaming ONE movie at a time. I am breathing alot easier, knowing that I have all 3 of my 5tb drives archived on this one 8tb. Yes, I know that 3 of those drives = 15tb, but they aren't full yet either. Anyway, back to the point, if you need a reliable drive with tons of space, don't hesitate to buy this. It's a solid purchase. Did I mention it's very quiet?

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.

Great backup storage. The easy store is easy to use like the name implies and it was priced right when I bought it on sale here at Best buy. Have not had any problems with it and I would buy another one in a heartbeat

My computer and external hard drive has a capacity of 2tb. After 5 years the storage on both were full and the computer was running slow. The easystore has a capacity of 8tb and was easy to self install. Now I have capacity to spare which should take me 10 plus years to fill.Great price on black friday

Very easy to use. Simple plug & play. Lots of storage for backup and files.

Great for go pro videos, music, family picture easy setup decent price

I purchased the 8tb hard drive to backup my computer as well as provide storage for my Plex Server. So far everything runs smoothly and the backup application that was provided is simple to use. I highly recommend this product if you're looking for a simple external hard drive with a lot of space.

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

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

Great for backup. If you have lots of GoPro footage (that takes up a lot of room), this drive provides enormous backup space and it's so affordable! Western Digital which makes it more reliable than most, means I can save important files without worrying about running out of room on my laptop.

I loved it. I’m using it for my server. Thank you so much.

One of the best affordable options out there to save data.

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!