Customer Ratings & Reviews

I was amazed at how fast I filled up a 4TB drive so time to upgrade. This 8TB external is just a beast. WD Red under the hood. Just perfect for a 24x7 setup. Getting it on sale, for less than the bare drive, was most excellent!

Bought this during one day sale for $129 to use for my Xbox, works great so far. Only had it a week so who knows how long it will last. Could last 3 weeks, 3 months or 3 years, as with all hard drives only time will tell.

I have several of these drives. After installing this one and moving nearly 4TB of data onto it, my computer would no longer recognize it. I was able to get it to work long enough on another computer to copy the data back off and return the drive to Best Buy for replacement. The new drive works great, as have all the other WD drives I’ve bought over the years.

This hard drive was just what I needed for archiving old projects and documents. Compatible with my MAC and Windows machines. Lots of storage space for not that much money!

super simple to use and no time consuming setup required. you just plug it in and it works. check to see if your model comes from Thailand. If it does, you're in luck as this is the 256MB cache version which makes it the desirable one.

Got it after black friday. Could not pass on a 8tb drive for $150.

Did my research on the internet and honestly was looking for a harddrive backup for my xbox....this was the best value for the size you got and I've got a lot of games lol Quick curbside service.

Smooth import of files, fast retreival of files. Ie Music & Videos

Got this to store tons of pics and videos. Very fast and depndable

I picked this up during a sale where it was discounted over 50%! This drive will soon be connected to my network and serving up my entire library of 500+ DVD/Blu-ray titles. Terrific value for this enormous and versatile hard disk.

This is a good hard drive if you are looking for a good drive to store your picture/music/documents etc. One thing I did notice was that since I have a MAC, the drive needed to be formatted to work for MACs. There are no instructions for this in the box. Had to look online. The device is capable of it, just have to do a little work to get it set up.

Lots of storage for a good price. Heres a little something....inside of these enclosures you'll find WD RED drives which are of a very high pedigree. Suffice to say these drives are built like a tank and will provide years of service.

I use this for my Plex library and it really works as intended. Really helps me expand my storage and works just as good as any 5400RPM HD should. If you need more space I recommend to wait until this goes on sale.

I'm using this drive to run a Plex server connected to Ubuntu. Drive is adequately fast for streaming HD video. Have been running it pretty hard for a few weeks now and the drive has been solid, no complaints.

I bought a pair that im using for media storage for my plex server. The USB 3.0 is fast enough to direct stream everything with no hiccups on my tv. Im also using another one for a backup and so far seems to work good.

I have standardized on Western Digital drives and this was a deal on Best Buy so I got it for the 8TB storage. I will use Acronix to make auto backups of my two WD drives on my pc. I have an older 1TB WD NAS and that is too complex. This one is a simple, external drive that shows up on my folder index in Windows Explorer. It is also USB 3.0 which is very fast.

I have always had good experiences with the WD brand if products.

This is a great drive inside a solid enclosure with excellent performance. I recommend these to all my friends and family for long term storage. I am looking forward to upgrading to the 10TB version in my NAS very soon.

I’ve been short of space before and could not save important data.

I was glad to get this as a backup on sale. The size of 8TB was one of the requirements I had and they were out of the "my cloud" versions in that. Looking back now, I wish I would have waited only because I think I would have preferred to back up through my wifi instead of having to manually connect to each device with a USB. Other than that I have no complaints.