Customer Ratings & Reviews

I always get nervous putting so many eggs (TB) in one basket, in case the drive fails, but I haven't had any problems yet. I've had portable ones fail more often than these desktop models.

Video uses a lot of memory and this external hard drive is a good solution to store and back up files. The drive has solved this ongoing problem for projects at a very reasonable cost.

Been using this for the last 2 years as an archive drive. Just now about to fill it up. It’s been a pretty solid drive, worth the price.

I've been using this hard drive for over a month with no hiccups. I've had issues with Seagate but all my WD external HDDs are working well (some many years old). Speed and reliability are great so far.

I am a very happy and satisfied user of this 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive , I have no reservation in recommending it. The backup speed is superb and there is no fear of running out of storage ( 8TB).

I am a fan of Western Digital Hard Drives, so it was an easy decision to purchase this drive to use as a backup. It has given me no problems what so ever.

Bought this to have a dedicated harddrive at house and was easy to connect to mac book. Offers plenty of file storage and looking at picking up a second one for a photo project working on.

Was needing another drive for my NAS and knowing that many of these contain WD reds which are specifically made for long term storage and constant use, it was the perfect option. I was not disappointed.

Seems to be pretty fast, although I'm using it with an old server with USB 2.0 only. Stablebit Scanner keeps telling me it's passing the temperature threshold, so I'm not sure if that's true or not.

Bought this for myxbox one x works great the only draw back it is always on won't turn off even if you set the xbox to turn it off but not a big deal i just put in a cabinet so i cant see it's on

I use it for photography. I always save picture as raw and need a solid hard drive for my laptop. This is a great capacity its price but it always went sleep mode every 10 min cause a lot of lag. I hope it has a function to hard always on. I am using 3rd party program to do so.

As a photographer shooting RAW and JPEG images, I have many external hard drives. This may be the fastest of my drives yet. I have many Seagates which have treated me very well. I thought I'd try the 8TB Western Digital and I'm impressed. Like other reviews, I hear the drive making some minimal noise while accessing files, but not more than I expected. So far I'm very pleased with the drive speed. One critical comment - I hate that all these external drives have large plugs at the end of the power supplies - I wish they had bricks in the middle and small plugs at the wall. Enough of my minor quibble, I think this was a good purchase and believe you can proceed with confidence in your purchase.

excellent so far, even though the shipper chunked it on my doorstep. great price, only complaint is it dropped by $20 a month later - oh well. excellent 8TB WD Red inside (checked by CrystalDiskInfo)

WD is one of the most trusted storage device brands out there. I use it for storing ps4 games as well as music & video files. Does the job its supposed to do.

This WD 8Tb drive is just what I needed to make sure my files, photos and music are backed up. I'm not particularly partial to "the cloud" so I feel more comfortable making my own backup.

I was looking for an external hard drive to back my computer up with that was easy to use. The sales person recommended the WD Easystore 8TB. It is one of the best purchases I made in a long time.

I've owned a few of these and they've always been good drives. This one in particular includes a WD Red NAS drive which is better quality than the standard drive. Handles vibration and heat better.

This was a awesome buy its super easy to set up plug and play, i use it from switch back and fourth to my two computers so i dont have to re download programs

Great price for a good drive. Even though these now come with WD white label, they're still WD Red drives. The big difference is that the SATA power connector has been updated to the newest spec. If you're running a NAS and you shuck one of these and plop it in, you shouldn't have any issues. However, if you plan on putting a bare drive in your PC, be aware that most power supplies still use the old standard which outputs 5v power on the yellow line. This causes the drive to constantly restart itself as the new standard calls out this as a restart pin. The easiest fix is to remove the yellow line from your power connector used to plug the drive in and you'll be good to go.

Purchased as Christmas gift. Purchase was easy, employees helpful