Customer Ratings & Reviews

Superfast delivery by Bestbuy. Order was delivered in 3 hours! Amazing!! Product works great and is faster than my older Seagate 8TB.

I've had this for a about 2 months now. When connected to a USB 3.0 port this transfers quickly. It also has backup software included that is easy to use and automatically backs up.

Scored an awesome deal on this one. Good amount of storage. Easy to set up.

Massive HDD, I use this as my backup mass storage. I would recommend this.

I was debating on getting a/c powered backup vs. USB powered. I learned from my son's online research that this particular 8TB unit had "Red" graded hard drives. I plan to use this drive strictly for master archival storage (migrating smaller WD Passport USB only drives to it.) It has worked flawlessly and I am very happy. The a/c adapter situation is not an issue, as I only use it when I need to migrate data from the smaller drives.

I love these drives! Very reliable, fast transfer speeds. I bought 2 a few months ago. One for backup of documents etc.and the other connected to my router for local document/media sharing. I have a 3rd from a few years ago that is still going strong. I use specifically for backup of my family’s laptop images. All 3 are 8tb and going strong!

Using as external drive for Playstation 4 (and 5, if I can ever find one at MSRP). Easy to install and transfer speeds are excellent.

8 TB is exactly what I needed not too much not too little good price at 139. Around 2019 I bought one for 159 still a good deal. Even when not on sale. Comes with software on the website such as recovery data and power options. Haven't really messed with them but I seen them there. There's a couple of reviews on YouTube that are good to watch.

Unfortunately, this hard drive died on me two days ago. Ironically, it died the day I was going to back up my computer data. It was not the enclosure housing nor the cable, but the drive itself. Because the drive had sensitive customer data on it, I did not want to let the drive out of my site. I was able to successfully destroy the drive, and I will not be buying the Easy Store model going forward.

So this Harddrive I got during the one deal before christmas for $129. It's 8TB which means it can hold a ton of pictures, artwork, books and anything else. It's read and write speeds are decent enough for transferring data over night and knowing it'll be finished by the morning. They are shuckable which is cool too. I've recommended this to a ton of friends who want to download their whole steam library in one place.

After a run of bad luck with Seagate drive failures I decided to switch to Western Digital. I'm glad I did. The drives are silent and at 8TB they are great for large backups. They even look good. I think the vertical form factor also allows for better cooling for longer life. Oh, and most importantly these have the Red drives recommended for Network Attached Storage (NAS) which means that they should last a lot longer.

Product works well with transferring data from windows 10 to windows 11. My only complaint is that I wish the instructions were more informative.

This product does precisely what it is designed to do. It provided me with fast access to a ton of storage and actually helped me expand my total storage capabilities. So far this has been an excellent external hard drive. If you're looking at getting a high capacity external hard drive, this one works great and I recommend it. If you're looking for a DJI Mavick Pro, don't buy this. It totally sucks at being a drone..

This is the second Western Digital external hard drive I have purchased. The first one saved all my records when my old PC crashed. I was able to restore everything, including over 30,000 photos. This newer version drive is larger capacity, and appears to have similar software, which was easy to use for restoring. It does not appear to allow synchronous updates, but I can set it to backup on the hour. I would recommend it.

Reliable and quiet external usb drive with lots of storage space. Great for backups!

Great amount of storage for the price. Easy setup and great for a backup system.

Needed to expand memory for Xbox One. Connected easily. Problem solved. Decent price also.

I bought this to go to my XBOX one. Before I had the 4TB and it worked very well. But I have a lot of games downloaded and it was almost full so I bout the 8TB for more memory.

I hesitated because of a bad experience with a WD product years ago. However, I'l so glad that I purchased this to store videos and important documents. The instructions for setting up confused me but I got a very helpful WD customer support person by phone to assist. For several weeks, I've been loading videos directly from a chip inserted into my laptop -- bypassing my overloaded hard drive. I would purchase again.

I shucked and I shucked.. the white drives inside were like pearls in an oyster. Granted they're not the highest quality pearls. 5400rpm and still need that tape over the 3rd pin (see youtube if you don't know what i'm talking about). But overall, the 5400rpm drives were supposed to better if you have a RAID 5, 6, or 10 NAS setup. Less heat = longer lasting drives.