Customer Ratings & Reviews

Quiet and fast at an unbelievable price. Easy to setup and format. Fast USB connection. No issues.

Got it for a great deal and shucked it. Decent hard drive expansion

Best Buy sells two types of these WD 8TB USB 3.0 drives. This is a review of the more expensive one which I believe uses a WD Red drive. I am using this drive with a Windows 7 Pro system and the drive was recognized with no problems. I'm using it mainly for archiving large video files and the file transfer speed is nearly as fast as a hard drive connected through a SATA cable. The drive comes pre-formatted with an NTFS file system, so you don't have to format it; it's ready to go out of the box. It does come with software to facilitate using it as a backup drive but I haven't found a need for it. Unfortunately the drive does not have a power switch so you can't turn it off if you only need it for a few minutes and decide to eject the USB 3.0 device. I've been using it for about 3 months and have written about 2TB of data to it with no problems. Also, Best Buy usually has this item on sale so I would recommend checking their website regularly to get a good price.

This 8tb drive is working perfect. Its set to back automatically.

Don't bother with WD's software (other than Drive Utilities for adjusting the sleep timer). Internal drive (in my case) is a WD Red NAS drive with 256MB cache, so reliability should be good; wel'll see. Reasonably fast for a hard drive. Stays fairly cool. Drive has been plenty quiet.

I use Western Digital external drives to back up family pc's as well as cell phone pictures and video's. The USB 3.0 interface is very fast and with 8 TB of capacity you have lots of storage options. Best Buy consistently has the best pricing for this product, you can't go wrong!

Haven't had to use it yet. Plans are to save church services on it. Cannot rate it better until we use it.

I bought this same external hard drive 2 years ago and it worked flawlessly. So I bought it again. I've had on issue with this drive. No corrupted files of any kind. I highly recommend it for those who have a lot of videos to save.

I use a pair of these as additional external backups for my RAID Array in my desktop media server. I get good transfer rates and have had much better experience with reliability than previous generations of external drives which seemed to develop bad sectors regularly.

easy to use and reliable and does the job! Good external hard drive!

I mean it's a hard drive it works great I haven't had any problems it's not loud or anything works great 100% in my book and I got a good deal on it I got it on sale

Drive works perfectly fine to back up files from desktop.

Works perfectly. 210 MB/s read and write. Works with my PS5.

I just received this and did a back-up of my computer so I haven't had it long. So far, so good.

These were really WD 8TB red drives for a great price. Very reliable and loads of storage.

Just love the plug and play!! Works great. I would not pay $300 any thing under 150 great price.

Was faster than my old hard drive which was a Seagate. I will be buying a WD again in the future

I love this device- plugs in to a USB and allows me to copy my files from other discs I have my my big PC - I organized now by year, month, and day on this new drive. It is a copy of what I have, but better organized for protection and for uses to create new images and graphics

Bought this to store large files and backup my Mac. Dependable, easy to use, and decent write speeds. Does everything I ask of it and it does them well. Free software included that helps save power and life. Plus they are almost always on sale at Best Buy

After having tried another external drive that I simply could not get to work at all, I purchased this one after returning the first. This drive is easy to use, and makes large backups very quickly through a USB-3 port. I am very pleased with it.