Customer Ratings & Reviews

Excellent for backing up files! I do a lot conversion of photos to videos and want to make sure my works-in-process are safely backed-up, so I don't lose any of my work in progress. Very easy to use and I am very happy with my decision to use this for my back-ups.

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.

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...

I bought this on sale with the intention to store my downloaded games, purchasing an NVME or SATA is way to expensive for the amount of storage a Hard Drive would offer. I am pleased with this purchase! Games load in fast and i dont have to worry about storage ever again, i have about 60 games installed and downloded over 200 game mods, I still have about 85% of storage left. With video games storage increasing over time, consider getting a separate storage device specifically for storing games and game mods.

I ordered two of these hard drives. They have both worked great so far. I recently digitized all of my movies and TV shows that I had on disc and loaded all of my content onto them. I connected one directly to my TV and watch all of my content on it. The other serves as a backup hard drive. They are both relatively fast and responsive and they both serve my purpose very well. The first one I ordered had a faulty cable. My computer would not recognize the hard drive when I had it plugged into a USB 3.0 port. My computer would recognize it when I had it plugged into a USB 2.0. I did not want to deal with the return process so I went ahead and ordered a new cable. After we ring the new cable everything worked great. These hard drives run hot. Depending on how hard I'm working the drive it can get up to 60 degrees Celsius. These hard drives also run a little loud. I have a Western digital two terabyte green label hard drive that I bought years ago that runs much quieter. I would recommend these hard drives to anyone who needs a lot of storage or plans to digitalize all of their content as I did.

Excellent accessory with my PS5. I can store all of my PS4 games to it and not have to switch between consoles. It not to loud and the PS5 seems to access the data from the drive rather quickly.

Works well fast transfer easy to ise plug an play .

These were purchased to back up additional drives I already owned. I was just waiting for a large capacity drive with a good price that had decent reviews. This meet all expectations so far and have had a blast looking through all my digital clutter.

Got this hard drive for work. I needed something to backup some large digital xray files. This is my 3rd WD drive and I love them. You just plug it in and the software automatically loads. 8TB is about as much storage as I'll ever need. Great drive.

I already own a 4TB WD external drive and just needed additional capacity. Set up was easy and. Setting backups was simple. I am using the drive as an archive (actual backup) which will be used in emergencies. If you want this to store and stream videos etch, then this is not for you. I would suggest an actual SAN solution. If you just want a backup system then I would recommend this.

I think that Western Digital makes this external hard drive exclusively for Best Buy. It is a breeze to hook up and my Mac saw it immediately. Great drive. Great price.

I got this to accumulate all of my digital movies and music, instead of having it on several smaller HD's. Runs great and despite a little lag here and there that could be my PC trying to read it, or the HD itself, I have no complaints about this.

I was running out of space on my two 1TB drives so this drive is used for photos, videos and documents. My other drives will now just be for backups. This is a huge drive and serves my needs. It was easy to set up and it has been working perfectly.

I love this product, no kinds of hiccups and easy to us.

Bought it and I love it. Large storage for my media without the headache I had with smaller drives

This one is a real bargain Western Digital red and 8 Tbs. I only wished I bought it at the $99.00 price.I thought something had to be wrong with them.But at $149.00 price its still a huge bargain. You can get a lot of music or movies on it.

These are my go to hard drives to run in my unRaid servers. Shuck em and let run. Solid drives, run a little warm, so have proper cooling.

Wonderful so far. Large amount of storage, great price, WD quality. Only thing that surprise me was it needed the included software installed for the driver.

Does the job that I wanted. Good price. Quite operating device. Was easy to install as all you have to do is connect one cable to your computer and the electrical plug to an outlet.

Editing videos can take up a lot of memory. This 8TB drive will store a lot. Works well. I like that it stands - my other external drives just laid on the desk and seemed to be in the way