Customer Ratings & Reviews

As a novice user, the storage size and sale price is hard to beat. The drive has been used often in our home without any disconnection glitches or lost files. Also, the drive will quietly hum while operating (but not loudly), and may run slightly warm; never hot. True to it's name, it is very "easystore" and files transfer fast. For portability, it's sized like a wide and thick paperback book. As long as your bag is sturdily padded on all sides (e.g. SLR camera bag), you're good to go.

Purchased the product when it went on sale. Definitely worth a buy for backups and saving files away from your computer. It comes formatted for Windows, but requires reformatting for MAC OS use. It went on sale for $129.99 the week before Black Friday, but I was unable to get it since it sold out. Luckily, it went on sale during the winter break sale for $139.99 and purchased right away. It comes with some Western Digital software in the hard drive. If you use hard drive software such as Crystal Disk Info, you can find the serial number and search the type of drive. It is true that these drives are red WD NAS drives. For the price it is worth it since the bare desktop drives cost more. I may consider purchasing another one when it goes on sale again since it is a large amount of space. It uses USB 3.0 and an AC adapter. It has vents on the top, bottom, and back for releasing heat. The only main issue with this external drive is the dissipation of heat. There isn't a fan, therefore, the drive can get pretty hot after long use. Just use hard drive software to monitor the heat. Also when laying down the hard drive, make sure the usb and power connections are in the direction away or top side (left) away from the surface it is laying on since the hard drive sits close to one side of the case and kind of hangs since one side of the drive seems to be only secured, which is the connection side.

Picked up the drive on a black friday sale price of $150 and was pleasantly surprised to find a Red NAS drive inside (typically costs around $250). Added it to my storage array and is humming along happily.

Works as it should. Quiet, spacious, includes power cable and usb cable. Setup literally takes about 45 seconds from opening the box to hooked up and done

I bought this 8tb WD external hard drive and couldn't be happier. I already own the 3tb and 4 tb. The set up is seamless with great reliability and is perfect if you need more memory as I buy games digitally.

Easy to use, and fast. Great deal. More than enough storage. Had fotos from 2003 to 2022 and still plenty more storage space.

Excellent product and easy to set up. It’s rock solid and reliable. It includes backup software and also has great customer service and technical support

I bought this for my Xbox One for extra storage. Very easy to use. Basically plug and play after Xbox formats the drive. Does not get hot if idle for a while.

solid ... huge capacity... fast transfer rates clearing on boaed storage speeds up pc

Bought this because of what drives are inside and that they cost less than just buying the bare drive. Have been using it as is connected to my router to store videos and pictures and has worked perfectly!

After years of using other external hard drives (Seagate, LaCie, OWC builds, even other Western Digital) this has become the most reliable backup drive we have used so far. It reformatted for Mac easily, mounts always from the attached drive or anyone from our local network and has huge storage for what stunned me as a low cost of $159 when I purchased it. (Price seems to vary as I went back within a week and it was over $259 again but even at full cost is a great deal.)

Western Digital external usb 3.0 external drives are fantastic! I have 3 others 2 are 3 TB and one is 8TB like this one i just purchased. They have always been reliable. Easy to install in about 5 mins.

This is a great product at a great price! Very quiet - easy to reconfigure for a Mac - great amount of storage at 8TG - very fast at USB 3. Also comes with a great warranty from a reliable manufacturer.

Perfect size for our needs, reasonable price. capacity is perfect.

Great hard drive. I needed something with 8TB and this was the best value for the price. I've had WD drives before and this was was just as solid.

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!

It's a Western Digital device... what else can I say? I have WD external hard drives that date back before the turn of the century that still work today. I have never owned any WD hard drive that caused me any heartache OR made me wish I never bought it in the first place. I have never had to return a WD hard drive for any reason. * * * I might have been lucky so far, and probably jinxing myself with this review, but I completely trust WD to sell me a quality device that fits its advertising and that will serve me well for years. * * * Your mileage may vary...

I bought this because I don't have enough space on my computer for all my photos and scrapbooking supplies. It was easy to install and works great!

Nice large reliable hard drive! So far so good. I use it as intended as an external hard drive but I believe many people like to pull the drive out and throw it in a PC. It works well for my use case.

Great price for an 8TB drive. I use it solely for backup purposes and it is not actively plugged into anything. Regardless It is sturdy and easy to use.