Customer Ratings & Reviews

Fast external USB 3.0 storage, suitable for backups, photo & video archives. Price was right, as well.

works great! Easy to install and use. Crazy amount of storage for the price!

Typical Western Digital quality. Using it in our streaming/Twitch/Facebook gaming business to store the most exciting and worthwhile games.

I purchased this because I had a 4TB drive for my backup to my Mac and it was getting full (have it partitioned with 1.5 TB for backups and 2.5 for storage). This allowed me to increase my storage and amount for partitioning. I ran across an issue when I tried to partition that I had never had. I had to format the entire drive to MS-Dos firs and then go back and partition part to Mac OS and the other part to EX-Fat. After that, no issues.

This is my third drive and have had great luck. I love the cloud but also like having a hands on copy of all my media! Bigger is always better and with 4 K here you will need all the space you can get. Be sure to have multiple HDD's for your home media and keep one off sight in case your house burns down ect. On a side note be prepared for it to take a while when transferring all your media. Use the fastest USB port you have!

These were on sale when I bought them. The price per TB was definitely better than anything else out there. I ended up pulling the drives out of the enclosures and added the bare drives into my home server. The RPMs are lower than I like to go but for the price I made an exception. And in all honesty in a simple over network transfer I don't see any lower speeds than my 7200 rpm drives. Longevity, we'll see. I have had them less than a month.

An amazing amount of storage....easy to use. Never loose those pics because they are backed up

Excellent hard drive. Set up is simple, operaton flawless. Great value.

Great Drive, no issues with install works great. Was worried about review across the internet that after time it stops working. Had the drive a month so far and seen no issues thus far.

I have been pretty much a fan of WD drives for years, still am so decided to get this 8TB drive to fit all my memories after all these years. Especially since I really don't take photos, I take videos of my travels and memories so I need ALOT of space. It's been working well and the transfer rate has been really fast, though I think that might have to do with my new comp. All around good purchase!

Have used these drives before. Easy to set up and no problems. Price was right.

I got this , cause I needed more space . It works fine . And functions ok I guess. I had smaller seagates before . And they were super fast . And took no long time for it to work , once running, it was fine ,but actually a tad noisy. I put it in a cabinet behind some stuff , a long ways away from me . Not sure , if I would buy another one . That’s kind of sad , cause , I have quite a few WD products , and they all work fine .

Great drive its fast reliable and gives me room for movies. Was a great buy during Christmas sale

This is my 2nd portable HDD, but first of WD brand. The software was very easy to install, the setup was also easy. I was able to connect this to my laptop and transfer everything from my old drive to this new one. Then making the settings for the new HDD to backup my laptop files couldn't have been more straight forward. You can schedule a backup for whenever you want or manually do one when ever you feel like.

decent value of storage for the $, the speed of the drive 5400 RPM so does not retrieve data as quickly but considering the amount of space and reliability of WD drives, it is a good buy.

I bought this external hard drive for PS4 download content storage. The read/write speed is seamless and I have not had any issues thus far.

This is an incredibly large hard drive - 8 terabytes. There is enough room to store everything you want to keep, music, pictures,videos, documents. Get an SSD for your operating system and one of these for your files and you'll have both speed and capacity for all those things you want to keep handy. It has a two year warranty as well. Great for backups too.

Great harddrive. Easy to set up and has lots of space on it. Would recommend to anyone.

the internal storage have more value than the external. I bought two for my NAS. It's running smooth

This USB drive is not the first drive of this make and model for me. I purchased it again because past experience gave me confidence that the additional one would work as expected. It did. I did not give a durability rating since none of these drives have been in service with me long enough for a meaningful rating, yet. On the other hand, all drives continue operating without failure or difficulties - as expected.