Customer Ratings & Reviews

You don't realize how fast you can use up storage space when you have a Home Theater PC. I'd been reading about these particular external hard drives on reddit and how versatile they were. They are easily stackable if needed. These are such a bargain and hold everything I need.

This provides the extra storage I need and saved me from needing to purchase a new computer. It was extremely easy to set up.

Turned an old 500 mB laptop to a new 8TB monster ready to handle the big jobs.

Bought on sale for $139. Working as expected. Formatted to exFat and attached to nVidia Shield TV for Plex and Retroarch. WD White Drive WD80EMAZ inside the one I got.

Working well. Backups run without fail. Size makes placement easy, but runs a little warm so ventilation must be considered.

Pros: 8TB is plenty of space for backup storage. The drive is quiet and doesn't take much desk space. This drive requires a separate power connection unlike some external drives which are powered through the USB cable. Cons: The included USB cable is fairly short (only about 3 foot long). The hard drive speed (5400rpm) causes it to take some time to store a large file.

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

Really pleased with this external HDD. It's fast, quiet, and comes with a decent warranty. Not to mention, it's cheap for 8TB (and a high quality drive inside).

Great unit for storing thousands of videos and photos. Good price too. Even cheaper with my 10% member's birthday reward!

Easy to use, shuckable if you're interested. Some in a NAS, all have run great as long-term drives.

Got this at 139.99, so far best deal, using it to store data. So far no issues. The drive is quiet and fast with USB 3.0 connection. Would buy again if needed.

Works fine, easy to install and access. I researched prices and Best Buy was the Best Buy.

I wanted something to backup my important pictures and files. This fit the bill with large capacity and USB 3.0 speed.

Works very well backing up my computer. Easy to set up and use.

lots space, easy to find the storage in computer. Easy hookups

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

Assuming you don’t want a wireless backup hard drive, this is the best bang for the buck. We almost bought the 14 TB version, until we realized that oddly enough, two of these (8 TB) combined were about $20 less than than a single 14 TB. This is counter-intuitive, as that means I’m getting 16 TB for less, and usually the bigger package is the cheaper one, but not this time. Onto the actual hard drive: no complaints. It’s super easy to use. It does what we want it to. It does its job.

Plug it in and it Works! Enough Storage for Pictures for ever! USB 3 alows for reasonable transfer rates. So nice to be able to put everything in one place!

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

I purchased this on sale at a steal of a price to upgrade the 1 TB drive in our TiVo Roamio OTA because these have a WD Red drives inside. In doing so I voided two warranties at once, but totally worth it! Once I tested that the WD drive was functioning properly, I shucked the drive by using a set of spludgers designed for opening electronics, there are 3 clips on each side once you have something in those spots to keep the clips from engaging, the drive slides out very easily, I can't even tell I opened it. Take the 1 screw out of the back of the TiVo, pop the lid, remove the 4 screws that hold the drive in, then the 4 screws that hold the rails on. Replace the drive, power up the TiVo and wait for it to get to the setup screen. This takes about 5 to 10 minutes because the TiVo is formatting the drive during the startup process, I didn't time it so it may be longer, maybe shorter, be patient. Shut the TiVo down, take the drive back out, connect it to your computer via the USB circuit board that came out of the drive case, then use MSFRTools 3.2 or later to expand the drive so the TiVo sees all 8 TB, this is called "blessing" the drive. Reinstall the new drive, button up the TiVo case, complete the setup on the TiVo and you are done! Total time if you don't mess up, about 45 minutes until the TiVo is back up and running. Extremely easy and cheap way to get 8x the space on your TiVo. You will loose all recordings and OnePasses doing this, I had none because I was anticipating this upgrade so we did not schedule anything to record. If you want to keep your recordings, you can either copy the recordings to your PC or another TiVo or clone the drive. You are limited to a 4 TB drive when cloning as this is the largest drive the cloning utility can handle but you don't lose any recordings or OnePasses you have setup. I did the clone method on our first TiVo. The clone process takes a bit longer and will require that the drives be connected to a PC and that you have a boot drive for the utility. Takes about 2 hours, but totally worth it as well.