Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this for additional storage and couldn't beat the price at the time. Works great but it took me a while to realize that it's an Energy Star type unit. It will shut down to conserve power when not being used. When you access the drive after not using it for a period of time, the unit takes about twenty to thirty seconds to power back up.

Great price for so much storage. Easy to use and exactly what we needed to back up my parents computer.

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.

Works as expected. Not too loud. Pretty slim and fits most places

Bought it to make home storage network. It's fast and working great. Just like what I needed.

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.

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).

This is our second WD external hard drive & they have worked great!

A ton of space for the price. I would recommend this if you need to storage a bunch of data without breaking the bank. I wouldn't recommend for video editing

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.

Easy to setup and works well - good price for storage

SO far, so good! I have had no issues with it, it's easy to use and stores so much files, it's insane.

Very happy to get this 8TB external hard drive on sale. I got it for my PS4 and it was easy to set up and use.

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!

Easy to use. Excellent storage system. I am very happy with the performance.

I only have great things to say about these drives

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.

Great memory storage my son is very please with it. Its not very big so that's also a plus for saving space.

very reliable and bit big but much needed if your storing your files and trying to save ram on your laptop

Been reliable for years so I got another one. Easy to use and reliable where others have crapped out