Customer Ratings & Reviews

Works fine, easy to install and access. I researched prices and Best Buy was the Best Buy.

Runs a little noisier than I’d like and shows scratches super easily, works nice for my purposes though. Doesn’t play nice with most blu ray players because the high capacity I assume.

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.

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.

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.

WD Ultrastar inside. Cheapest way right now to get an ultrastar drive.

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.

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.

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’m so happy with this Easystore external 3.0 hard drive. My wife and I had so many pictures and videos across a couple of laptops that we just unloaded into this hard drive. It’s awesome!! Definitely more techy than the old school photo album my parents had :D Overall happy with the size of the devise as well. Makes it easy to travel with.

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...

Easy to setup and works well - good price for storage

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.

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 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 only have great things to say about these drives

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.

Hard drive is very easy to set up and use. It also looks great sitting by my computer.