Customer Ratings & Reviews

Holds a huge amount of information. Use it as a computer backup and to save information related to genealogy.

This external backup harddrive works great for my business. It is easy to install and operate.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not much to say about this one. It's a Western Digital external drive. It is still kicking. WD makes the best!

Great storage device. Was able to put 2 previous drives onto this one with plenty of room to spare. Plug and play.

Very easy to use. Simple plug & play. Lots of storage for backup and files.

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.

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.

I purchased four of these drives to replace some old Seagate models in a NAS. I'd done a fair amount of research, but nonetheless I wasn't expecting to get the models I ended up with. It seems WD has been using a new model: WD80EDAZ-11TA3A0 which is what I received in all four drives. This appears to be a white label WD Red but could also be a rebrand from their Hitachi acquisition, as these models are air-filled instead of utilizing helium as would be expected. The new DCM on these boxes is: NGBPWCP As for performance, the drives are running much better than anticipated and despite the warnings online I have yet to see temperatures anywhere above 45c.

Great drive that hasn't had any issues. Easy to install.

This is my 3rd 8TB HDD. I have 0 complaints. Cheap, quiet and they help me increase my media collection. Best bargain around. I'm confident they will survive those temperatures within the warranty period (2 years), but it's been tested and proven that hard drives do not do so well in terms of longevity with temperatures in excess of 40c. If you do shuck them, they run very cool; and you don't even have to install them internally. Just popping off the outer casing, and running a small fan on top keeps temperatures within 32-36c.

Couldn't have been easier to install. Plug it in and it takes care of everything. It puts easy to use software on your computer. You can tell it what to bsckup and how often. 8TB is tons of space.

This hard drive works very well, lots of space and boots up quickly.

Excellent addition so I can store more data. Easy to access.