Customer Ratings & Reviews

Not much to say about this one. It's a Western Digital external drive. It is still kicking. WD makes the best!

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.

The Western Digital easystore 8TB external hard drive works as described and as intended. If you need more space, whether it is for backing up important files or storing media, or both, this should do the trick for sure.

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

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.

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

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

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

The first Hd I purchased was very loud (bad Hd). Returned it for a second one and it works great! Ton of storage and got it on sale for a great price.

Great product I have several of them and using a Mac but also connecting it to Windows I reformatted it and it works great.

Great Product. Easy to use (plug in and go). No formatting or anything needed. Small, just throw in backpack and use whenever (although metal case)

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

The Easystore is fast and reliable. With my iMovie library on the drive I can easily move between computers and have plenty of room for huge files.

Bought for unraid server. Great red drive inside. Plan to by more on sale. Can’t find a better deal $/TB in a quality drive anywhere near this size.

We love the external hard drive so much that we’ve got well axing on eight of them and I’ve had never ever had a problem with one

This hard drive is just what I needed -- easy to use, with lots of storage. It was a snap to install and has been a breeze to use. I recommend it!

This is a Red drive, easy to shuck and take the drive out so you can put it in your computer. I got 3 and put them in a RAIDZ (ZFS) configuration,

use this to expand my PS4-Pro HD capacity and works great, no lagging, gitter game play, you don't even notice you are playing from an external HD

USB3 5400RPM 8TB drive, when on sale it's the cheapest $/TB you can get... so far been reliable, fairly quiet and pretty quick on a USB3 interface