Customer Ratings & Reviews

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

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

Works well. Flawless so far. Easy to use. Nothing sexy or glamorous but works like it should. I just wish it would not come with the proprietary software which makes it a little more difficult to use than it needs to be.

I'm a WD drive user since 1984. WD external drives work right out of the box without any issues whatsoever. Just plug it into your computer or device and in a few seconds you're ready to store or retrieve. I own a multitude of WD product - so much so that they should send me a t-shirt. FWIW, I also own a ton of Seagate. WD fail considerably less than Seagate - although Seagate reliability is catching up. I have several 10 year old WD's still working when needed. I have a few other drives that should work...get the picture? Uncontested reliability = WD. Value at the moment = other brands. (For those wondering, they are also shuckable :-)

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.

[Employee of bestbuy] Awesomeness works fast and great does what it says

Works great. I have a few some I chucked and some I'm using as externals. If u want to take the hard drive out (chuck) and install it directly in your pc these will not work so easily. The HD has some type of board circuit board that will not allow the HD to spin if it detects power on it. I Googled and found placing a peace of electrical tape over the 2 or 3rd contact terminal will circumvent that protection but it's not for the newbie. Also if you chuck it voids the warranty. Other than this they do what they are intended to do. 8 tbs of storage is a lot of storage unless your mining. Also 2 of them I opened did not have red.

You will need to download WD cloud but the set up process is very easy. The ability to access your files is very easy and would recommend to store files or even to backup your computer.

I got this for my office server to store my large files. However, the performance is so fast on USB 3.0, that I now work directly out of this HDD, because it is much bigger than my internal HDD. During the first access, there is some bootup time, but subsequently, it is as fast as the internal HDD as far as I could tell. It is quite small for the storage and can be tucked away anywhere . The only con is the requirement for external power, the USB cable does not supply enough power to run it.

Works as advertised. Excellent amount of storage. I've had absolutely no issues at all and all of my data is backed up and secure.

I use this as a dedicated external hard drive for my PS4. Games are massive now so although I installed a larger drive in my PS4, it filled up quickly. This is a plug-and-play drive and it works flawlessly. It does get quite warm but if my media stand were properly ventilated it probably wouldn't get as warm. It is also pretty quiet which is nice. Overall, this is a great product and I would recommend it to anyone looking for increased portable storage.

This was a great buy for 8TB. Easy to use to back up your computer. If you have every lost your pictures and info on your computer, you would say this is worth the money.

TL;DR These harddrives REQUIRE fan cooling, but have non. They Idle at 65c. They will Fail from overheating. They have Cheap Harddrives inside instead of REDS. ------------------------------- These harddrives had sky rocketed to $250 thanks to the bitcoin craze and finally dropped down to a normal price thanks to the bitcoin crash. I finally got my hands on one for $180. I've heard nothing but good news about these drives since they have Helium filled 5000rpm WD reds in them and are shuckable. Unfortunatly WD has gone into full cheap mode and has started using cheap white labeled 7200rpm drives that are non shuckable and filled with air instead of helium. So they get hot, very hot. I took my new HD home and plugged everything in and the problems started. You get 7.270TB of usable data instead of the full 8.000TB. This really sucks since i could have bought two 5tb drives for $200 and gotten 9.070TB worth of storage since each 5tb drive has 4.540TB worth of storage space. I started transfering my data to this new harddrive. Data transfers at 90mb/s to 200mb/s which is good. These harddrives are loud. They click, clank and make all sorts of weird noises when in idle mode. Also when they vibrate i can feel i pulse from my desk. There wasn't anything wrong with the drives its just they're cheapy harddrives and are just loud and vibrate/rumble like an xbox or sony controller. I checked google and this is normal for these harddrives as well as for their more expensive black drives. Hardrives should be kept cool. Its why they have a metal top. For heat dispersion. I pluggged in my new 8tb drive and it idled at 32c which is great since HD's should stay in the 40c to 50c range. Anything above 50c and harddrives should slow themselves down to avoid cooking themselves. It took about 15 minutes, but i saw that this drive slowly crawled its way up from 32c to 65c during transfers!! I stoppped transfering data to see if the temps would drop and they never did. I unplugged this HD and let it cool by a fan and plugged it back in. Slowly at idle with no transfer's going on this HD crawled back from 32c all the way to 62c. putting my hand above the vent you can feel the heat like a frying pan just cooking this harddrive. I stuck a mini fan on top, started transfering data and watched the temp of this drive go from 65c down to 38c. With the mini fan on top i could feel the heat coming out of this enclosure and it felt like one of those personal heaters you buy during the winters. It took about 5 minutes for the enclosure to get down to 38c and the heat coming out felt felt really cool. This is unacceptable since WD should include a fan inside of this enclosure. I've decided that this is a bad design and refuse to do the work of WD, so i returned this 8tb easystore the next day. I'm going to buy two 5tb portable hardrives for $200 as my brother has a couple and they idle at 40c and go to 50c during transfers which is way cooler than these overheating 8tb easystores. Also i'll have 2gb of extra space. I've always used WD since seagate creates faulty drives, but when a company makes a bad product you have to call them out on it. These large disk easy stores are complete junk and should be redesigned with a fan in the case. buy at your own risk.

It was what I was looking for & in stock. It had been a sale day so I was lucky to have it availa le.

This product was great for shucking the hard drive and using it in a Synology NAS. The 8TB WD Red drive was a lot cheaper to purchase this way rather than a bare version,

Trust the name. Got this for a back-up for my back-up. Can't add too much to the specs and product description, easy to use, not ugly on the desk and good value.

Very good item! Would buy again. Get yours today!!

This external storage works perfect with PS5 to store PS4 games. The PS5 does not yet have the ability to store actual PS5 games on external yet, but we had plenty of PS4 games. Since storage is always an issue with gaming systems, we didn't want to take away the space for PS5 games on the console and this does the job. We had no issues setting it up. Just plug and play. I have used many externals for home and work and have always gotten WD brand. All of them are working still with no issues.

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