Customer Ratings & Reviews

Love this drive & on sales it's even better. Works great & now I can have them mirror each other. Haven't shucked one yet but may since the drive inside costs more normally than this external drive. Very happy & would buy it/them again........might the next time they go on sale.

got this on black friday for 129.99.....best deal around by far. and WD is always my brand of choice

I got mine for 150, got one for all my devices so you could say I recommend them. But I will point out that I am unsure if they stand the test of time as it is new and storage wears out over time but how much time does remain to be seen. But overall for the price I couldn't pass this up.

My household includes one member who is an avid photographer and another with a massive mp3 collection. I was running out of hard drive space for backups. This 8tb drive provided the space I needed to safely store backup system images for 10 different computers in my home. Only negative is the USB interface is slower than I expected during large file transfers. There is no power on/off switch.

Got this external hard drive when it was on sale. Great price for a large amount of storage. It's not the quickest but but it's 8TB. I love it. I've been successful with WD. Seagate is the only drive that failed me within a couple of years without alot of usage. WD is more reliable.

Tried the 10TB to only realize that it would not take anything above 8tb and got this for my console instead. So easy to set up and not too slow for updates and way cheaper than an SSD. Definitely recommend!

These are pretty inexpensive any more. The world is moving to SSD (Like me) but this is 8TB and if I wanted that in an SSD I would need a 3rd mortgage. I have 4 of these and I use them for storage. Not for constant real time access. They can be attached and always "on", but if you don't do a file access for a few minutes the platters stop spinning and it takes ~15 seconds to "wake up." That is FOREVER so I avoid it. That Sleeping may also be the software controls on my computer rather than the drive itself, but it is still a real time lag. There are work arounds (batch files etc) to keep your drive "live", but they would seem to tax the turn tables. So, I often copy the section I am working with to a local SSD drive, make my edits and then save back to this kind of spinning disc archive.

Top quality as always with Western Digital. Excellent speeds.

Working great with PS4! Fast loading and solid construction

One of the few faster external USB drives at a bargain price.

with 4k and bigger file photos. im eating through hard drive like crazy. good thing hard drive prices are also going down. im not sure how long this specific hard drive will last but, I have the same WD drives that I have had for over 8 years and still working.

Set up was easy but I haven’t begun using it as add a title?yet.

As I recall, WD still puts their red-series hard drives in these external enclosures and uses non-SMR for sizes above 6TB. If you want to get a replacement drive for a NAS or just local RAID array, definitely make sure you don’t get an SMR drive. They are terrible performers in RAID arrays and will only cause you issues. Purchasing these 8+ TB external hard drives is one of the most economical ways to get your hands on some of Western Digital’s best NAS and RAID drives. If you would like to purchase this hard drive to replace a drive in an existing array, fear not, for it uses CMR and will be fine for really any of your uses. If you plan to use this as an external drive, you should be fine regardless of the size you purchase since the difference between CMR and SMR should be negligible when the drive is used on its own.

This hard drive works well. I bought it for my MacBook so if you are buying for your MacBook you will need to reformat. This isn't too hard, but you will need to know what you are doing.

I purchased this sweater digital drive to back up my NAS. It does exactly what I expect, plug into my NAS via USB, it finds it and I can backup my data. The 8TB allows me to make multiple versions of backup. Now I can sleep soundly knowing 20 years of photos, music etc are backed up.

I bought 2 of these and they had WD80EDAZ in them. Some people online saysthey run hot and is actually 7200rpm rather than 5400rpm.

I purchased this drive after filling up my 4TB external drive storage for PS4. Since PS4 only reads one external drive at a time it took me 4 days to completely transfer all files to this external drive. So far there hasn't been any issue with it. I also have a 10Tb and a 6TB hard drive for Xbox One of the same brand. I definitely recommend these drives for console storage. I've also experienced weather power outages a few times and these hard drives didn't fry or become unreadable for improperly shutting down. Good value when you catch them on sale.

Great product. Works as advertised. Use as my main backup drive.

Excellent I am enjying the way it is working and it met my needs

Got it for my PS4, works as advertised and is fast. This is a good memory option for game systems.